Fool me once
In an April Fool’s prank played on him by his staff Sunday, Mitt Romney walked into what he thought would be a crowded campaign event but which turned out to be an empty room.
Romney staffers reportedly got the empty-room idea from the Jon Huntsman campaign.
Big Brother is watching you: Britain’s government is reportedly working on a electronic surveillance program that could keep track of every text message, tweet, email and Facebook posting in the country. “It is not focusing on terrorists or on criminals,” Conservative lawmaker David Davis told the BBC. “It is absolutely everybody.”
Seems like the Brits will need a large new governmental agency to monitor all that digital traffic. Perhaps it should be called the Ministry of Love (Miniluv).
Dexter Poindexter is watching you: Hobbyists are building their own do-it-yourself drone aircraft that are equipped with video cameras and can fly to GPS coordinates without any assistance from a ground controller.
The Buzz suspects that those coordinates were taken from “Guide to Nude Beaches 2012.”
— Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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