Tag: USA

Dialect Survey Results

Dialect Survey Results

This is one of the coolest things on language dialects that I’ve ever seen.  A whole bunch of tiny differences all mapped out across the USA.  Just change the question in the dropdown menu on the left, and look at the map on the right.  Both composite and individual maps are available.

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Stunned. Angry. Fighting back against NSA spying. | EFFector 26.14

Stunned. Angry. Fighting back against NSA spying. | EFFector 26.14

Last night, we received confirmation from a report in theGuardian that the National Security Agency (NSA) is currently collecting the call records of every Verizon customer in America. The NSA order forces Verizon to provide “on an ongoing daily basis” all call records for any call “wholly within the United States, including local telephone calls” and any call made “between the United States and abroad.”

And that’s not all. Today, the Washington Post and theGuardian published reports based on information provided by a career intelligence officer showing how the NSA and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies. The government is extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs that enable analysts to track a person’s movements and contacts over time.