Technically Incorrect

Technology can only be as good as the hands and eyes into which it is placed. Those hands and eyes can sometimes be overly aggressive or simply inexact.

Please imagine, then, how those hands and eyes felt when they belonged to a CCTV operator who directed a policeman to give chase to a suspicious person, possibly a burglar.

The way the Telegraph casts its eye on the story, a policeman patrolling on foot in the South of England received a message from a CCTV operator that a suspected burglar was lurking in his vicinity.

That vicinity had endured a few more

What goes through the mind of someone who trolls Facebook's RIP pages in order to leave messages like "Rot in Piss?"

What sort of person does that? What do they really look like? What do they sound like?

The BBC took it upon itself to try and meet one of these people, just to measure their charm level and the cut of their jib.

In a piece of footage unearthed by The Next Web, a BBC reporter tracked down a troll in Cardiff, Wales, who goes by the handle Nimrod Severen. Astoundingly, his real name is a lot less more

What will Americans do in order to preserve their own green fields and oil refineries? What will Americans give up in order to keep their trees growing and their consciences clear of moral soot?

Not toilet paper, it seems.

For a stunning research study has landed upon my laptop with a conservative thump. This deep dive into American paper use was commissioned by Nitro, a company that, as far as one can tell, "develops intuitive solutions that enable people to work smarter with digital documents."

It seems that a mere 6 percent of Americans are prepared to reduce the reams more

There's a smell of brand-new commercialism over at Google. No more Mr. So Nice It Almost Seems Unreal Guy. Google's here to make money and to win. Your Google search results are now your Google+ search results.

But who would have thought--other than the most venal--that the company might even use its lovely doodles to, ultimately, make lovely oodles of cash?

Well, I am grateful to the bookish data-divers at Search Engine Watch for delving deeply into today's doodle, which celebrates the great poverty-sympathizing author, Charles Dickens.

It seems, you see, that Google has chosen today's more

Actors tend to live in their own world, one in which they are at the center and the rest of us are at the movies.

Perhaps this slightly skewed world view might have contributed to a troubling encounter between Woody Harrelson and Redditors.

The "Cheers" and "White Men Can't Jump" actor agreed to a 15-minute session called "Ask Me Anything." The name is a little on the subtle side, but essentially, on agreeing to participate, one should be prepared for anything.

This isn't quite the fawning of "Inside the Actor's Studio."

So how could Harrelson not be more

Some say that pornography lacks originality. And yet I find myself uplifted by the originality of an argument presented by a woman accused--wrongly, she insists--of illegally downloading the porn oeuvre "Amateur Allure Jen" on BitTorrent. A woman who has decided to fight back.

As Torrent Freak uploads the tale--backed up by a court-filed complaint (see below)--not long ago, an outfit calling itself Hard Drive Productions sued one Liuxia Wong over her alleged illegal download. Hard Drive later allegedly sought to drive a hard bargain by offering to settle its complaint with Wong for a mere $3,400.

The more

Technology performed an outstanding social feat during the Super Bowl halftime show. It made Madonna sound like someone people used to enjoy in the early '90s.

The technology ads, on the other hand, didn't offer too much uplift or consistency.

Halftime saw Hulu revealing its full ad featuring Will Arnett. This was a very pale imitation of the original Alec Baldwin ad from three years ago.

Just when you were looking for someone to wander in and clean house, someone sounding like Clint Eastwood turned up. He was talking about Detroit, about how it was fighting, clawing, winning. He more

Many of the deeply affected have been standing in line waiting to see how Samsung would attack Apple in launching the Galaxy Note.

So here we were, during the Super Bowl, with Apple fanboys and fangirls lining up in San Francisco.

They have been tempted to desert the fold before in this campaign.

Finally, in this ad directed by Bobby Farrelly, the Apple faithful lose the faith.

Just one look at the Galaxy Note--yes! it has a pen! what a magical revolution!--and they break ranks and utterly lose their mentalities.

If you thought Farrelly's movies enjoyed their over-the-topness, more

The Super Bowl is a game in which even the punters get excited.

It's also a game in which America looks at ads that tell it how the corporate world sees, well, America. If the tone of ads is stupid, it means that brands think America is two laces short of a ball. If the tone offers originality, it says the brand looks upon its customers--potential and current--as representing hope.

But with so many companies now dependent on technology either to manufacture their products, to distribute them, or to communicate them, some might wonder just what is a tech more