Your move, NYU Applied Sciences Center. Mr. Pass CornellNYC Tech, the applied sciences campus slated for Roosevelt Island, isn’t wasting anytime establishing its ties to the tech industry. On Monday, Larry Page shlepped out to Chelsea (sans Google glasses, sadly) to announce that Google would gift the campus with 22,000 square feet of office space. And today the school named Greg Pass, Twitter’s first-ever CTO, founding entrepreneurial officer. It’s a much more heavyweight hire than your run-of-the-mill entrepreneur-in-residence. Former Twitter board member Fred Wilson, for example, has lauded Mr. Pass’ considerable virtues as a technological leader, architect, and recruiter. A serial entrepreneur, Mr. Pass was also cofounder and CTO at Summize before it was acquired by Twitter and started serving as an advisory board member ... Continue reading →

My train home was sparsely populated with a couple other early escapees. I spoke to a couple of men that were a little less conservative than the speakers. They both admitted to using the internet, one even used it on his phone. But they still recognized the dangers. One man said that the internet should be regulated more, to make it harder for children to stumble across porn. He also was one of the first people I talked to that was open about the parallels and potential for collaboration between Jews and Christians when it comes to creating filters. In fact, one of the primary filtering companies is Christian, which creates the "Covenant Eyes" software. According to *The New York Times,* the whole event was ... Continue reading →

Woman sneaks into 'men-only' Orthodox Jewish rally at New York baseball stadium - dressed as a man By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 01:18 EST, 22 May 2012 | UPDATED: 01:18 EST, 22 May 2012 Intruder: Adrianne Jeffries was able to sneak into the meeting disguised as an ultra-Orthodox Jewish manTens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men attended a rally Sunday at the New York Mets' stadium on the dangers of the Internet and how to use modern technology in a religiously responsible way.Women were not permitted to attend the meeting at Citi Field in Queens, but one was able to infiltrate the rally.That was New York Observer reporter Adrianne Jeffries, who disguised herself in traditional Orthodox garb to blend in among the males inside the ... Continue reading →