It was not so long ago I wrote about an article I read which was arguing for the sequestration of carbon dioxide in the oceans of the world. I said this one did not even pass the Homer Simpson test for feasibility, yet I was bombarded by mo than a few saying I could not possibly know about what I wa...

Today, Hitachi has been found guilty of price-fixing, through its own admission, in the current round of a court battle involving three other companies that produce TFT-LCD screens. The others are LG, Sharp, and lesser known Chunghwa. from BetaNews Hitachi would pay the least of the four companies t...

I usually don’t do a huge amount of reading about Linux. That is, not concerning its development. I am usually concerned with solving problems, with the specific distribution I am working with, at the time. Since the weekend, I have been reading a few articles about Jaunty Jackelope, the upcom...

From the ‘and you thought he was a little off ‘ department, Chuck Norris seems to have started believing he is Walker, Texas Ranger. No, Conan O’Brian is not in on the joke – there appears to be no joke. from WorldNetDaily I may run for president of Texas On Glenn Beck’s ra...

So, I’m looking around trying to find something I haven’t seen 12 times on other pages (it’s been a slow week for news items – you can only gush over the same 3 things at the big magazines for so long), and I find something from the long distance echo department (a boyhood euphemism for I sa...

Those who seek to shield their young from the cruel world, by putting them in classrooms that don’t grade, and sports activities where there are no losers, are missing the whole point. The sooner a person learns that the entire world, as we know it, is based upon competition, and that personal per...

I really do want the country to simply get on with things, and I support President Obama’s position on this – but the more that becomes available on what was happening during the “reign of W� the more steamed and betrayed I feel. from the International Herald Tribune Bush administration memo...

Not that Jimmy Fallon won’t do well in the 12:37 time slot; he will probably do quite well for a while, as everyone is anxious for something new at that time. No, the beginning of the end is simply the start of a change in the viewing habits of the NBC core audience. (How many people that comprise...

Less than a month ago, a post on ZDNet was found exhorting us to follow ten people who were deemed ‘worth following’ on Twitter, the last stronghold of the insipid and incoherent. This morning I see that someone else is all “twittipated” about the less than universal use of t...

A story in Maximum PC relates what it calls the ’start of the impending doom for nVidia’. This is, of course, the gospel according to Intel, so mileage may vary. The war of words and bad blood between Intel and Nvidia continues to spiral out of control, and Intel is back at it again. Aft...