Showing posts with label gizmos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gizmos. Show all posts

14 November 2007

From Gizmo Manuals to Gitmo Manuals

Nobody reads the manual, right? Well, here's one that people probably will want to read on the fine Wikileaks site: it's for Guantánamo Bay....

Isn't openness a wonderful thing?

The disclosure highlights the internet's usefulness to whistle-blowers in anonymously propagating documents the government and others would rather conceal. The Pentagon has been resisting -- since October 2003 -- a Freedom of Information Act request from the American Civil Liberties Union seeking the very same document.

26 April 2007

Nissan Open Sources Its Gizmos

Virtual gizmos, of course:

Nissan will be the first automotive company to provide Second Life residents access to the open-source codes used on the Altima Island contraptions.

(Via Second Life Herald.)