Check out this deeply weird music video full of slo-mo dog glamor shots. If Gap Doggy existed, this is what their ads would look like.

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Via Slashdot: a Cincinatti company is requiring that its employees receive injected RFID chips in order to gain access to the corporate datacenter. Workers won't get fired if they say no, but one has to wonder what effect declining the injection might have on a person's career. Not a good one, I'm guessing.

I should work myself up into a righteous dudgeon, throw around some inflammatory superlatives and send everyone to the EFF's donation page. But honestly, I just feel a sort of giddy thrill about this. It's the same feeling as in the moment when a rollercoaster crests its first hill: we're on the verge of something bad, and completely powerless to stop it.

And, on that dogmatic pro-privacy note, allow me to inform you that we're now tracking you in new and terrifying ways. Well, okay, not that terrifying — we just put our RSS feed into Feedburner. Look! It's all pretty now!

I set up a forwarder so that you shouldn't have to change any settings in your newsreader. But I thought I'd mention the change, lest anyone freak out over the newly omnipresent Feedburner URLs in our RSS.