Is Colorado a “totalitarian state” when it comes to laser jammers? Wired columnist Mr. Know-It-All concedes that “Colorado isn’t quite on par with, say, North Korea” in a piece for the magazine’s May edition. However, he continues, “state legislators might have been Kim Jong-illin’ a little when they wrote their…
Last week, we told you about self-declared Single Infertile Female Leah, who encouraged members of her online community (powered by Boulder’s BlogFrog.com) to help her decide which of three potential sperm donors she should use for in-vitro fertilization. Well, she announced her pick on Mother’s Day, appropriately enough, and in…
“I can’t even begin to tell you how weird it is to be shopping for sperm,” says Leah, who blogs under the moniker Single Infertile Female. “It’s not one of those things you ever think you’ll be doing — judging men online by their various attributes to decide if you…
April’s here, which mean the snow is melting, the grass is growing — and the dreaded city street sweepers are back trolling the streets, leaving in their wake a trail of yellow parking tickets on the windshields of all those cars that weren’t moved out of the way when they…
Kids like video games. They don’t like stationary bikes and ellipitical trainers and those weight-lifting machines that make your thighs less flabby by having you open and close your legs like a Venus fly trap. In light of those facts, Denver’s Athmar Recreation Center, 2680 West Mexico Avenue, has installed…
In recent days, media outlets nationwide have told the story of Boulder-based Pete Warden, who created a database of information about Facebook’s approximately 215 million account holders. Facebook accused Warden of violating the rules of its site and threatened him with legal action — a prospect he took seriously enough…
Everybody loves the Apple Store in the Cherry Creek Shopping Center. Even Westword. In 2006, we honored it with one of our annual Best Of awards: The Best Spot to Scope Smart Hotties. In 2009, we wrote about how the Apple Store is the modern-day mall arcade, teeming with “dozens…
In the not exactly thrilling 1995 cyber-thriller The Net, Sandra Bullock’s character, Angela Bennett, reveals that she was raised in La Junta — a community whose name she pronounces as if she were Hugo Chavez. Little did Bennett know, however, that her hometown would share a state with a nexus…
Earlier this week, Investigator Mike Harris, who’s assigned to the Child Sex Offender Internet Investigations unit of the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office, visited the Chatroulette website for the first time — and promptly got an eyeful. “Within the first ten seconds we looked at it, we already saw a…
Last week, we told you about a scheduled March 4 funeral for Internet Explorer 6, which reportedly died as “a result of a workplace injury sustained at the headquarters of Google, Inc.” Turns out the level of hatred for IE6 exceeded the expectations of folks at Aten Design Group, who…
Mention Internet Explorer to most knowledgeable computer types and you’re likely to prompt a flood of profanities that would even embarrass the cast of Jersey Shore. So don’t expect such folks to mourn at the funeral for Internet Explorer 6, which takes place next week under the auspices of Denver’s…
Ef Rodriguez has been among our most popular-ever featured Twits. But today, he’s not that happy with the service that’s made him a must-follow. Why? As he explains in this Huffington Post blog, Twitter has introduced a new “local trends” feature to a select number of users, allowing them “to…
If you can’t make it to the National Western Stock Show to see Miss Rodeo Colorado Kasie Pigg — either the way cartoonist Kenny Be imagined her, or the way she appears on her website and her Facebook page — you can read all about her via her Twitter feed…
Our featured Twit this week goes by the handle @pugofwar on Twitter, and Ef Rodriguez most other places. When he’s not busy blogging (on his own blog and for the Huffington Post), he can be found playing World of Warcraft, organizing events such as Boco.me and Ignite Boulder, or engaging…
Over at the excellent social-media site Mashable, there’s an intelligent and thought-provoking post about the ways social media has changed us. And while its conclusions about social media’s impact on our society included important points about information availability, political discourse and child literacy, I couldn’t help but notice there were…
Our featured Twit this week is Matt Bernier (@mbernier on Twitter), a local web developer and blogger. Matt came to our attention when he was recommended as someone to watch by a fellow Twit (always a good sign on a medium used first and foremost for self promotion). When we…
This week’s featured Twit is Eric Elkins, a local writer, blogger, CEO of a social media company and “avowed narcissist.” He caught our attention on Twitter because he’s one of those Twits that’s just everywhere — he seems to know everyone, and everything going on, all the time. He’s always…
Today’s featured Twit is Elisabeth Rappe, a local film blogger who writes for Cinematical. Rappe caught our eye on Twitter (where she can be found as @ElisabethRappe) because she is one of the rare members of that fabled species, the Geek Girl. In other words, she blogs (and tweets) about…
The end of the year — and the decade — is just around the corner. So it seemed like a good time to pull out the old crystal ball and look ahead to the year and decade to come. Predicting technology is a fool’s errand, but you’re in luck: I’m…
If you’ve logged into Facebook recently, you probably remember seeing a message (it was inescapable, you got it the moment you logged in) with a big song and dance about how Facebook was taking great new steps to protect your privacy and had implemented all these new tools to keep…
Another Tuesday, another Twit we’d like to bring to your attention. Today, the Twitter limelight falls on Tim Davids, a writer and filmmaker from Boulder. When we opened nominations a few weeks back to figure out who we should be featuring, Davids tweeted this: “i wanna be a featured twit…
Infotainment. That chestnut of a neologism was originally coined, if I recall correctly, to describe cheesy CD-ROM products designed to entertain and educate. Later, it was used as a pejorative description of A Current Affair-style journalism. But for my money, there’s no better word to characterize the experience of Ignite…
