Me, on June 24, 2008: It hit me this afternoon while watching the noon news.  There was a text scroll across the bottom noting the DTV transition on Feburary 17, 2009, and the scroll told you what to do in order to keep on receiving over-the-air TV after that date.  In case you don’t know, those...

Welcome to the new year. I hope everyone had an enjoyable holiday season. I sure did. One of my favorite parts about this time of year is being able to get together with friends and family and catch up on each others lives. Well that, and of course all of the food, booze, and gifts that come into pl...

From the Breaking News center : WASHINGTON -- A day after the U.S. Senate barred Roland Burris from being seated, Majority Leader Harry Reid left the door open to his admittance. After a 45-minute meeting this morning between Reid, Burris and Assistant Majority Leader Dick Durbin, Reid said Senate D...

MikeGodwin "interviews":http://www.reason.com/0502/fe.mg.neal.shtml NealStephenson for ReasonMag. I dreamed up the SnowCrash world 15 years ago as a thought experiment, and I tweaked it to be as funny and outrageous and GraphicNovel-like as I could make it. Such a world wouldn't be stable unless eac...

Rules stay the same: one song per artist. But this year... I don't know. Maybe it's because I didn't have a working computer for most of the year, but a lot of stuff left me cold. I'm therefore keeping my list short for, you know, integrity's sake. There was stuff I liked, but I was far from falling...

Our congresspeople offered some insightful analogies to the situation in Gaza as Jon Stewart reported. That is why we pay them so well, 'cause they're smart like that. I can play that game, too. Can you? I have to share a room with my little step-brother. My mother gave me a computer. He doesn't hav...

There are 18 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one clic...

George Will: In 1964, there were more than 2,000 personnel tests available to employers. But already an Illinois state official had ruled that a standard ability test, used by Motorola, was illegal because it was unfair to "disadvantaged groups." Before 1964, Duke Power had discriminated against bla...

Apple has announced an upgrade to its high-end MacBook Pro line of notebook computers. The unique thing about this model is that it uses a custom-made (read:expensive) non-removable 95WHr battery to achieve an estimated 8 hours between charges in a small package. Other specs: 17-inch widescreen LED-...

Boing, or more accurately “sproing.” Trombone. Smaller cheaper accelerator? Hmmm. God and Mr Burris … and the press. Will that affect US gas prices? Faith, and analogy to computer languages. Yah right, the War on Terror really put a dent in progress on speech recognition … or...