The RP’s Weekly Web Gems: The Politics of Tech

Google Correlate – search by drawing a correlation. How fantastic! [Google]

This past week the U.S. filed an antitrust lawsuit to prevent AT&T’s $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile. That merger would combine the 2nd- and 4th-largest mobile carriers in the country. [Bloomberg]

“Web-blocking and Illegal Sites” – Do minutes obtained from a secret meeting reveal plans to implement measures to block parts of the Internet? Check it out. [Pirate Party UK]

The hacker group Anonymous hasn’t shown up in the news for a while. Probably because the group’s leader was arrested. However, they came back with vengeance last week with big leak of Texas Police e-mails and documents. There are a few examples in the link. [Gizmodo]

You will probably recall the Raspberry Pi that I have written about before. It’s that amazing $25 PC that fits on a USB stick. Well here is a video of it running Quake III! [Geek]