Article: Your Worst Fears About Corporate Suppression of Technical Innovation Are Well-Justified

Gizmodo has an interesting article on how Bell Labs (AT&T) made the decision to suppress the invention of magnetic recording tape...in 1934.  For all you conspiracy theorists who are convinced that corporate interests are responsible for things like marijuana being illegal or electric cars being shelved, just know that you're probably right.

CIA surfed my blog?!

One of the nicest perks of Blogger.com (besides the fact that their service is totally free) is that they give you stats on the number and origin of the people who log onto your site.  Yesterday I noticed a hit from the following url: http://www.cia.gov/studies/open_source_inteligence/article327.html.  Don't bother trying to log into it - its an encrypted CIA site.  So my question is - is this just somebody at the CIA doing some personal web surfing, or did I actually post a link of interest to the CIA, and, if so, which link could it be?  People, I am going down the rabbit hole!