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We’re Back! Here’s What We Missed

The site’s been stagnant for over a week now, an unfortunate side effect of a sole contributor who has a pesky thing like a day job.

Fortunately, the past week has been kinda slow. John McCain, of all people, introduced a bill to block net neutrality. If you haven’t seen it, here’s John Stewart’s take on it:

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An Interactive Map of Nuclear Testing Sites

The Atomic Archive has created an interactive Google Map of the over 2,000 nuclear testing sites between 1945 and 2008.

Nuclear Test Sites

Bureaucratix: California “Green” Regulation Will Block Radio Signals Inside Cars

2765757383_6a5c2aca67 California’s “Cool Cars” initiative seemed like it might be a cool idea: Ban the sale of darker colored vehicles, which in the long run would lead to less energy usage when cooling them down. Neat idea, if not a little…okay, extremely authoritarian. But now things are getting even more ridiculous.

Now the California Air Resources Board is insisting that automakers make windows more energy efficient. That seems reasonable. A 45% decrease in solar energy entering each vehicle by 2014. Also seems reasonable. A 60%

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Check Out Teknocratix On Your iPhone, iPod Touch, or Android Device!

iphone-android-overlap Thanks to the guys over at BraveNewCode and their fantastic WPTouch WordPress plugin, Teknocratix is proud to offer a mobile-optimized version of our site for Android and mobile Safari.

For a plugin that was so easy to set up, it works amazingly well. If you own a supported device, like the iPhone, T-Mobile myTouch3G, iPod Touch, HTC Hero, or T-Mobile G1, you owe it to yourself to try it out. Thanks again to BraveNewCode for making something that just

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Teknocratix is Live

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Welcome to Teknocratix, the blog dedicated to discussing technology and politics, and what happens when they meet. More and more, tech and politics are becoming entangled. Politicians stay in touch with constituents on Twitter. Apple and Google are suffering a messy divorce, drawing the watchful eye of government regulators. The growing net neutrality debate could shape the future of the internet as we know it.

Just a few months ago, social networking kept the world informed about the Iranian uprising, despite their state media’s best efforts to block us out. Meanwhile, across the globe,

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