When Google Wave first launched some time ago it was met with an enormous hurrah of amazingness from many people in the tech community. Unfortunately the "game changing" realities of what Wave was supposedly going to evoke hasn't eventuated.

The only reason I bought Red Dead: Redemption was for the open world experience of wandering through the landscape with the incredibly well designed audio atmosphere. In fact, I could seriously just live without the storyline.

This past week saw the launch of a new global security project, Internet Fraud Alert, which aims to provide a single, secure channel by which security researchers can report stolen consumer credentials (such as passwords and credit card numbers).

I just took the Sonicwall Phishing and Spam IQ Quiz and I'm proud to say I passed with flying colors. All told, it probably took under 5 minutes to complete, while I was getting ready to leave for work. It's doubtful if Sonicwallwill ever release any data from this quiz, but I would hazard a guess that the results wouldn't surprise anyone.

A week or two ago, I sent a tweet to @imaxbirmingham on Twitter and asked if I could have a tour of the projection room. I've only ever seen projection rooms by looking through the window, and I've never seen an IMAX projector in person, so I thought it was worth a go to ask -- and it was!

I'm in Woodbridge, Va., this morning about to head out to the Long Tail Alliance Fly-In, a gathering of small web publishers organized by the Interactive Advertising Bureau and Google. As a publisher who uses context-based advertising on the Drudge Retort and other sites, I was invited to come to DC and meet with members of Congress to talk about why this form of advertising is important to online media.

In 1970s, the federal government instituted automobile regulations to increase vehicle fuel efficiency — in part by decreasing vehicle weight. The initiative, called "CAFE" or "Corporate Average Fuel Economy," has been renewed and enhanced as recently as 2007. Heavier vehicles tend to be safer vehicles, but Congress and the President have judged that the gain in efficiency at the cost of safety is worthwhile and justified.

With the recent shenanigans of Adam Wheeler and the discovery of his false application to Harvard and other prestigious schools, many people are left wondering how it was so easy for him to gain admission. Many people are beginning to say that acceptance to Harvard must be simple and easy to manipulate, but the fact of the matter is that that statement is far from the truth.

"I was never very good at literary analysis," John Locke declares in an episode from Season 2 of Lost. The writers for the series, on the other hand, seem determined to load the series with literary references. Sawyer, the hardbitten conman, turns out to be a voracious reader, devouring everything from Watership Down to A Wrinkle in Time. The series builds on one of the most celebrated literary tropes: survivors on a deserted island.

As blogged on my Asian Correspondent page over the weekend, research from social media measurement agency Sysomos has indicated the Japanese are Asia's most active bloggers. Having researched and analysed the global blogsphere, Sysomos ranks Japan third globally with a 4.88% share of voice.

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