As far as I can tell, the only important thing about this announcement (and the Kindle and the nook and and Peek's other, e-mail only devices, too) is the fact that you can get lifetime cell service to a device and the device itself for two or three hundred bucks. We need more of that kind of cheap connectivity, not more of these weird, single-use-only devices.

I love headlines that would make absolutely no sense to anyone fifteen years ago.

Anyway: AFP says that Bing has signed a deal with Twitter and Facebook to include information from both of those services in their search results, in real time. The deal is non-exclusive, so Google could play catch-up whenever it wants, but the point is that Google would be playing catchup to Bing, which is maybe the first time that's ever happened.

Google's Eric Schmidt has famously underestimated Twitter for quite a while now. As I said in my piece on Twitter a while back, the thing that Twitter now provides that Google doesn't is a laser-sharp focus into what people are thinking about right now. Even Google is starting to look painfully slow in comparison.

While we're having stone-age debates over whether our citizens should be allowed to die of treatable diseases because they're poor or unlucky, Finland has gone ahead and made high-speed Internet access a legal right.

The LA Times reports that all Finns will have a legal right to 1-megabit web access come next July. The promise to raise this (pretty slow) requirement to 100-megabits (really fast) by the end of 2015.

Look for the U.S. to follow suit... never.

A new study has found that 36 percent of people under 35 admit to checking Facebook, texting, or Tweeting right after sex.

The survey found that guys are twice as likely as women to use social media after sex, and that iPhone users are three times more likely to check Twitter or Facebook after "doing the deed" than Blackberry users.

I think I just became three times more likely to sleep with a Blackberry user.

Futurismic says your wi-fi can make the inside of your house visible to outside surveillance:

The surveillance technique is called variance-based radio tomographic imaging and works by visualizing variations in radio waves as they travel to nodes in a wireless network. A person moving inside a building will cause the waves to vary in that location, the researchers found, allowing an observer to map their position.

All of a sudden the climactic scene from The Dark Knight makes so much more sense.

The machines are after you.

Do they count as "high-value gifts"?

Bloggers have gotten so big that they're about to be regulated—at least when they accept money or in-kind services from a company whose products they review.

A blogger who reviews a new product—but leaves out the fact that he or she received payments, high-value gifts or free vacations from the company—could run afoul of new federal regulations on advertising.

Luckily for me I've already gotten everything I wanted from MedicalToys.com.

So say you're on your Segway, on your way to work. Your idiot boss won't build a ramp for your Segway, so you have to park it out front. That means you have to actually walk around while you're at work! That simply won't do. Thankfully, Honda has invented the U3-X, a device that operates like an indoor Segway so that you will never have to take another step for as long as you live:

Thanks, Presurfer. You have introduced the internet to something that manages to combine the cool factor of both the Segway and the unicycle.