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SXSW: Al Gore Fires Up a Crowd (Really)

Ben Masten — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 16:19:22 +0000

What is one to make of Al Gore? The former Vice President (introduced stumblingly by Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell as “Former President”) spent his SXSW Interactive address exhibiting a fire in the belly that has only manifested itself during his post-election career. To the democratic faithful, Gore was the profoundest of disappointments 13 years ago, […]

NRA, You Made Yourself Into A Practice Range

Benjamin Wilbur — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 23:07:26 +0000

The NRA has shamelessly released an iOS app almost a month after the Newtown massacre and in opposition to Wayne LaPierre’s very own words. Drowning in irony thicker than maple syrup, the aforementioned CEO personifies the idiom “do as I say, not as I do” by creating a gun-oriented video game. My problem isn’t with the blatant hypocrisy […]

Intelligent Guns In The Age Of The Assassin

Rick Diehl — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:00:48 +0000

“The only person who could ever miss with this gun would be the sucker with the bread to buy it.”– Peter (Ken Foree), Dawn of the Dead (1978) TrackingPoint, the Austin, TX-based manufacturer of high-end rifles for wealthy hunters has introduced its Precision Guided Firearm (PGF) to the public. Using technology based on the tactical […]

NRA, Are You The New Jack Thompson?

Benjamin Wilbur — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 18:42:13 +0000

The National Rifle Association lay silent shortly after the horrific Newtown shooting in which twenty children and six adults were indiscriminately killed with a military-style Bushmaster rifle. It’s a tragedy that has seized America in grief. Using this moment of silence to assess their options, the NRA tactfully asserts their 141 years of wisdom to shovel the […]

After Sandy Hook School Shooting, NRA Is MIA On Facebook

Rick Diehl — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 18:54:19 +0000

In these days following the brutal massacre of six adults and 20 children in Newtown, Connecticut, the National Rifle Association, America’s original gun lobby, has been unusually quiet. The lobby’s highly professional website sits without updates, its Twitter feed remains untouched, and the Facebook account reduced to a single image of the NRA logo and […]

City of Philadelphia Shoots Privacy In Foot With New App

Mordechai Osdoby — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 17:33:08 +0000

Want to know who got turned down for a gun permit? Turns out that there’s an app for that, at least in Philadelphia. There, the Department of Licenses and Inspection decided to release a web app that shows an insane amount of detail, on a handy-dandy, easy to use map. You can use the map […]

Amazon TV Order Majorly Misfires In D.C.

Tom Wyrick — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 21:02:47 +0000

When Northeastern Washington D.C. resident Seth Horvitz placed his order on Amazon for a new flat panel television, the transaction misfired in a big way. Instead of finding his new TV waiting for him on his doorstep on Wednesday, Horvitz found a long, oddly shaped box that contained a Sig Sauer SIG716 semi-automatic assault rifle! […]