The out of competition films have been announced for the Tribeca Film Festival and the movie selections feature Tribeca debuts from Sundance alums like  Steven Soderbergh, Raymond De Filleta and  Melissa Leo. Tribeca is starting to appear more like Sundance after Geoffrey Gilmore left the film fes...

So I tried to write this post up before, but it was lost in a freak web browser accident. You should see the other guy!  Back to the topic at hand. I’ve been trying to migrate my email list for some time and by “trying” I mean thinking about it, doing nothing, thinking some mo...

http://www.dell.com/content/product...s=19&l=en&s=dhs Dell is doing something really puzzling with their Mini 10 netbooks, and I can't quite wrap my head around the logic of it. At CES they announced the Mini 10 with some really surprising features, including GPS, a built-in TV tuner, and several ot...

Considering they, as an organization, aided, abetted, and otherwise supported, the sexual (and mental) abuse of minors, this, doesn't necessarily, come as a surprise; Vatican defends Brazil excommunication A senior Vatican cleric has defended the excommunication of the mother and doctors of a nine-y...

At the sports stadium of tomorrow, you'll be able to order food from your seat, get on-demand video replays and relax in high-tech luxury suites. Juan Uribe will be hitting .227 as usual, however. Actually, some of this is already taking place. At the new Yankee Stadium, kiosks in the concourse area...

Years ago, I was in the lounge at Hofstra Law School between classes where a particularly glib and witty classmate was doing the NY Times crossword puzzle in ink. I thought he was brilliant, not only because he made Law Review – but because I never attempted any crossword puzzle in ink – was alw...

Eco Factor: Lighting system powered by solar cells. You might be having tens of emergency lighting systems and torches, but in case of a power failure, they are either hard to find or are mostly out of batteries. Solar-powered lights do well when it comes to charged batteries, but they too like othe...

I have been so touched by the kind words people have written about me with respect to my winning the LITA/Library Hi Tech Award for Outstanding Communication in Library and Information Technology (or as my father-in-law started calling it to everyone he saw last weekend “tech librarian of the ...

Portrait of an Artist as an Avatar By SARA CORBETT CERTAINLY, FILTHY FLUNO is not the first artist to realize that in order to sell his paintings, he needs to sell himself. He does, however, work at it with impressive zeal. Every day he makes new friends and cultivates new contacts, edging himself a...

Portrait of an Artist as an Avatar By SARA CORBETT CERTAINLY, FILTHY FLUNO is not the first artist to realize that in order to sell his paintings, he needs to sell himself. He does, however, work at it with impressive zeal. Every day he makes new friends and cultivates new contacts, edging himself a...