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BoingBoing posted this security video of a worker freaking out and throwing computers and office equipment around. (There's a second video with sound and color here.) Many of us who have worked in corporate settings can relate to his nervous breakdown.

Time Warner Cable is going to start metering subscribers for their internet usage and charging users who go over their allotted gigabytes, reports the AP. The initial test of this new billing system will be tested in Texas starting Thursday.

Time Warner says it will affect very few users, as five percent of subscribers take up half of the cable line capacity. It's an effort to make things more fair for the 95% of subscribers who aren't doing huge uploads and downloads (although those numbers may change as film downloads become more popular with the new services now in the works).

A few other companies are considering metering, so this may be the future of internet access. Does anyone in Europe or from the old days in the U.S. have any thoughts about metering? Is it a step forward in making internet access more fair?

Pope Benedict is eager to reach more young people, so he's embracing new technology, including social networking and text messaging.

According to this Reuters article: The Pope will text daily messages of inspiration and hope during the six-day Sydney event while digital prayer walls will be erected at event sites and the church will set up a Catholic social networking Web site akin to a Catholic Facebook.

Wow is he going to get a lot of friend requests. But if he really wants to reach today's kids, he should start talking like them. For his first text, may we suggest: "Jesus luvz u. For realz."

In its recent elevator feature, The New Yorker told the incredibly sad story about an office worker, Nicholas White, who went out for a smoke break then on his way back got stuck in the elevator -- for 41 hours. The Times covered the tragedy and basically said he should sue for millions. So sue he did.

A Vermont divorce has turned into a free speech debate, reports The New York Times:

The husband, William Krasnansky, posted what he calls a fictionalized account of the marriage on his blog late last year. His wife, Maria Garrido, complained to the judge overseeing their divorce, who ordered Mr. Krasnansky to take down "any and all Internet postings" about his wife and their marriage pending a hearing next month.

Mr Krasansky claims that this amounts to censorship before publication, a rare violation of the First Amendment. The case is stirring up a major discussion about just what level of online disclosure is permissible under the law.

We believe he should have the right to say whatever he wants and his ex-wife should have the right to sue him for defamation if he says anything on there that is clearly damaging and clearly about her. The judge was out of order in demanding he take down the blog without a hearing.

But have you seen the blog? Omigod. First of all, it's called "LookAtMyPugs's Jurnull." That title should be illegal.

Most of the time, beginning-of-the-year predictions are things like "Jessica Alba will break up with Cash Warren" or "Charlie Sheen will be arrested." But one British chess-master turned AI expert turned futurologist has written a book in which he predicts that citizens of the world currently under 35 have something special to look forward to in their lives: great sex with robots. David Levy, 62, has looked at the advances in computer chess and other kinds of applied artificial intelligence, and he has decided, quite rationally, that soon enough society will cross the great dildonics barrier into man-robot (or woman-robot) sex. You can read all about it in his new book, Love and Sex With Robots. But before you investigate his nuanced, not very sexy argument, answer this poll question.

Would you have sex with a robot (assuming, that is, that the robot agreed to have sex with you)?

Yesterday, it was announced that Microsoft had bought a 1.6% stake in Facebook for $240 million, valuing the social utility site at roughly $15 billion. The deal makes geeky twenty-three-year-old Mark Zuckerberg, at least on paper, worth $5 billion. Talk about revenge of the nerds.

Silicon Alley Insider (which we're guessing is also made up of social misfits) says he deserves all this money because of his strategic intelligence. Here's how it's played out:

Facebook began as a Harvard-specific site through which students could rate each other's hotness in Zuckerberg's dorm room (possibly with some other people who have since sued him).

After reportedly almost getting kicked out of school for creating the site, and following the advice of hero Bill Gates, Zuckerberg dropped out to pursue Facebook full-time. Brave!

Zuckerberg raised huge amounts of venture capital and got Facebook to the point where it was being valued in the multi-billions, then turned down a measly $1 billion offer from Yahoo and then sparked a bidding war between Google and Microsoft. Super brave!

And now: ludicrous wealth is his!