The Theory of Fact Blog

Posted by admin on Feb 22, 2012

How to Launch an Awful Smear Campaign Against Google

It looks like Microsoft is getting fed up with Google’s free cloud based Google docs suite and the way it is saving students hundreds of dollars in software costs, so they are resorting to something drastic. They are launching a full on smear campaign against Google. You read that correctly, a tech company is launching a smear campaign. These have no place in the technical world....

Posted by admin on Jan 19, 2012

Megaupload Shut Down, Owners Arrested, “Hacking Spree” Ensues

In case you haven’t really been on the internet today, Megaupload.com has been shut down (despite the fantastic song that several well known musicians created to support it), and its founder and company officials have been arrested. The US Federal Government is accusing them of facilitating millions of illegal downloads of film, music, and other content. Supposedly they costed copywright...

Posted by admin on Jan 19, 2012

The Lifecycle of Internet Memes (jokes)

With the popularity of social media, internet memes such as advice animals are widely recognizable to the common internet user, instead of just being a cult-like internet joke nobody understands. Nowadays I’m sure even your parents know a few of them (or even worse, create them). Every day, people go to the toilets of internet jokes like I Can Has Cheezburger, FunnyJunk, BuzzFeed, and go trigger...

Posted by admin on Jan 18, 2012

I eat my own words, SOPA returns

I’m going to take this opportunity to eat my own words that I wrote yesterday on this article, since apparently right after I wrote it, the House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith announced that the SOPA revisions will continue next month. Talk about foolish persistence. He states To enact legislation that protects consumers, businesses and jobs from foreign thieves who steal America’s...

Posted by admin on Jan 17, 2012

SOPA is dead, why is there a blackout?

As I’m sure everybody has seen throughout Facebook, television, and even the radio, Wikipedia, Reddit, WordPress, Mozilla, and a myriad of other sites are going offline tomorrow to protest SOPA. Students, do your homework before your most used resource vanishes, and find another place to get cute kitten pictures. What many have not mentioned, however, is that SOPA was shelved by congress this...

Posted by admin on Jan 16, 2012

Never use a flashlight again after playing with this nuclear toy

Do you want to be the first kid on your block to glow in the dark? Try this on for size. Forget the easy bake oven or the army men. You’re going to start your own army man world war Manhattan Project. You’re going to blow all those other toys away with your very own Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab. It performs over 150 exciting experiments, including splitting atoms, measuring how much...