On the Internet, Nobody Knows You're Naked. Or Do They?

Word to the Wikipedians: nothing you do on the Internet is really anonymous. Once you're online, you're assigned an IP address, which leaves a digital trail of your tracks.

The address can change each time you connect, but since organizations typically have a defined range, a young hacker named Virgil Griffith was able to ascertain which edits belong to whom.

Related: After what he estimates at 500 hours, another young tech whiz cracked the code restricting the iPhone to AT&T's network.

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In a bunker under the White House on 9/11

The iPhone spin stops here.

Contrasting the energy policies of the libertarian Cato Institute with the conservative Heritage Foundation, Jerry Taylor concludes that Heritage is more hostile to the free market than is the Sierra Club, of all places.

Here's an apt, Luntzian turn of phrase: "political power." It's a spin-off of "government power," which conveys undefined but big authority. "Political power" sounds more specific, pairing the idea of power and politics to convey the inevitable when the latter is given too much of the former: corruption.

In 2000, 95 percent of Wyoming women who had abortions traveled out of state to get them. In Mississippi, the number was 60 percent, in Kentucky, 41 percent, and in South Carolina, 35 percent. Accordingly, argues Eyal Press, "[A]bortion-rights advocates ought to focus less on the specter of a Supreme Court reversal than on the reality of who is—and is not—able to exercise choice under current laws."

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