Outside the Beltway

The Oval Office Address, once a common tool of the Presidency, has been in declining use of late.

North Korea’s nuclear weapons aren’t going anywhere.

A new study says Twitter doesn’t break news faster than the wires. But nobody claims it does.

The military’s finance and accounting system has been dysfunctional for decades and is getting worse.

The recording industry has sent its 25 millionth Google takedown notice, trying to kill links that sprung up because of earlier takedown notices.

While the military was ousting Egypt’s democratically elected president, the US Secretary of State was on his yacht.

Every piece of mail you send and receive is being logged by the Postal Service.

Jerry Brown’s second go-round as governor has been very, very good to the Golden State.

Those annoying “Sent from my iPhone” signature block disclaimers actually work.

Thanks to archaic state laws, you can look at cars in a Tesla showroom, but in my states you can’t but anything there.

The government may soon stop making you turn off your iPad for no apparent reason.

Thanks to one question from one Senator, we learned yesterday that the FBI has used surveillance drones inside the United States.

This week’s Weekly Crowdsource is a search for new experts to follow.

There is an important difference between private companies holding private data and government holding it.

Exploring data from 33 years’ of FISA reports to Congress

Superman’s famous shield changes from 1938 to present.

Meet Edward Snowden, the 29 year old CIA/NSA contractor who has confessed to leaking the details of the NSA’s data mining projects.

I’m a big fan of Prismatic but, sometimes, the algorithm that matches the stories and photos doesn’t work as well as it ought:

Jay Stanley and Ben Wizner, privacy experts at the ACLU, argue that metadata is more sensitive than we think.

The latest theory about what Neil Armstrong said on the moon is based on his boyhood in northwestern Ohio.

At what point do science and magic converge? And what are the potential costs?

As of today, John Dingell has been a Member of Congress for 20,997 days, a new record. That’s not something to celebrate.

Cellphones have achieved near complete market penetration, and the smartphone is leading the way.

The state of Mississippi is going to use DNA evidence to track down statutory rapists. Why not deadbeat dads?

Republicans have problems with the younger generation that they will need to fix if they’re going to succeed in the future.

New developments in a still very new area of the law.