The "sharing economy" smears the word "sharing" — "sublet/resale economy" would be a better term. And note that these activities generate few jobs, so they can't solve society's real problems.

US citizens: phone your congresscritter to oppose bill HR.7, which would require women who were made pregnant by rape to prove the rape to justify an abortion.

The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and 888-355-3588.

AT&T invites web services to pay to for exemption from data caps, thus proving the supposed reason for data caps does not exist.

The result will be to give bigger companies an advantage of smaller competitors.

Of course, many of these services are bad in their nature, such as the movie rentals with DRM. But that's an independent issue.

Please don't refer to web pages as "content".

There have been thousands of complaints that fracking wells harmed water supplies in he US. Only a few of the complaints have been confirmed, and maybe many of them are spurious. However, I suspect that the tests miss some real problems.

Secrecy about what chemicals are used in the wells may make it hard to confirm that contamination is due to fracking.

A wild dolphin that lives near the Australian coast keeps trying to play with humans and ignores other dolphins.

There are reasons to avoid accustoming wild animals to people, but when that has already occurred, there's no use denying it. At some point, we might as well accept that this dolphin needs human company.