This has nothing to do with anything, except that it’s a pretty cool trick made even cooler because it’s a sitting U.S. Senator who pulls it off.

Lifehacker has posted the results of its browser speed tests over here … some of which may surprise you. (Explorer beat Firefox in what?!)

Big front-page story in today’s New York Times on cyberbullying. The main question asked is: “How should schools handle cyberbullying?” It’s an interesting one, especially when you have a guidance counselor noting that she’s spending “up to three-fourths of her time mediating conflicts that began online or through text messages.” That can’t be a unique situation.

Schools are forced to deal with cyberbullying, but it’s fundamentally not their problem: Ultimately it’s the parents who need to be on the front lines of addressing the issue. But when so many parents are simply looking at the public schools as babysitting services, well …

What could Google do with all the data it has collected? The Atlantic speculates.

The creation of a red-light district on the Internets was blocked in 2005 and again in 2007. But a top-level porn domain may finally be just around the corner. And while it’s a good idea for many reasons (not the least of which is: keep the porn sites wrangled there, heavily fine the porn sites that don’t go there, and the problem of parental and public filtering becomes far easier to address), it’s also creating a lot of issues … as the New York Times reports.