Archive for May, 2008

New Proxies

Proxy sites enable people to browse the web behind content filters set up by schools, employers, or totalitarian governments.
The trouble with proxies is that the content filters are constantly discovering and blocking the content sites.
This requires a steady supply of new proxy sites.
Here are a list of sites which publish a steady stream of new […]

Science Fiction Weapon Comes True

The Department of Defense builds Arthur C. Clarke’s “The Stilleto”.
“The Stilleto” is a weapon featured in Clarke’s science fiction novel “Earthlight”. In the 1955 Clarke novel, the weapon is said to emit a beam of light that was able to pierce a spacecraft. The writer afterwards explains that the weapon he mentioned in his novel […]