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Politics

Indiana University President Michael McRobbie sells off to ChaCha!

This was on Slashdot recently. Basically a newly elected president of Indiana University (which is a public school) Michael McRobbie was on the board of directors of ChaCha, people-powered web search company). Now he is switching the entire university to use this search system in favor of Google. Definitely smells like a conflict of interest! read more »

Is there always a massive conspiracy going on?

 A recent discussion of 2004 presidential election fraud at slashdot has disturbed me and lead me to confusion in a number of ways. Through the course of the last couple of years I have seen and familiarized myself with a growing number of conspiracy theories presented on the web. Including the "9/11 was orchestrated by CIA", the "big corporations hold us/our health/our children hostage" and many others.  read more »