Mary Jo Foley still thinks Windows 7 Beta 1 is going to be available in mid-December, specifically, December 17. My money is on January 13. So who’s right? Probably both of us. Mary Jo is probably right that the Beta 1 build will be locked down and signed off in mid-December, But I’m probably ri...

From Serious Eats According to the New York Times, Copia, the food, wine, and art museum in Napa, California, has filed for bankruptcy protection. Julia Moskin is too polite to state the obvious, that Copia was clearly overly ambitious, to say the least, and never quite found its footing or place in...

The Ford plant in Highland Park, a city within the city of Detroit, is a monument to the American automobile. It opened in 1910, and three years later pioneered the world's first car assembly line. In 1925, it spewed out 9,000 Model Ts in a single day. The revolution that turned America into a car-o...

I have a sneakin' suspicion this is turning into something I write about every year... but I am not going back to look to see if it's true... but yes, it is that special time of the year where I stress about the approaching holiday... ... well, maybe stress isn't exactly the right word.....

It's a brand-new Tuesday, and here we are already in December! I can't believe I've been back in the United States for a month, as of today. In many ways it feels like I never left; I suppose that's what it's like coming home. And in other ways—and this is going to sound hokey, probably—it seems...

Most traditional churches are struggling to connect in this Digital Age. This isn’t breaking news to anyone anymore. Traditional businesses are struggling with the same thing, for that matter. That’s why we met recently with authors Alan Jamieson and Len Sweet in the mountains of West Vi...

"I'm fine with 'Happy Holidays' myself," writes a conservative pastor. Previously: "Just don't tell me Happy Holidays because you worry that saying Merry Christmas to a Jew will cause him to melt into the floor like the witch at the......

Google's legal team has extraordinary power to decide which videos can be seen by audiences around the world, according to Jeffrey Rosen's piece, Google's Gatekeepers in yesterday's New York Times magazine. Google, of course, owns YouTube, which gives it the technical ability to block particular vid...

Google's legal team has extraordinary power to decide which videos can be seen by audiences around the world, according to Jeffrey Rosen's piece, Google's Gatekeepers in yesterday's New York Times magazine. Google, of course, owns YouTube, which gives it the technical ability to block particular vid...

CNN's Jonathan Mann runs through the usual litany of acceptable progressive predecessors (but no President RFK, alas) and asks, "Which hero do we want Obama to be?"The Americans who are comparing him to those remarkable predecessors are putting a lot......