Knowing Apple and the crazy speculation about their recent alleged touch-screen purchases, I hope that they are finally building an iTablet. I have had some interesting epiphanies lately. My iPhone is actually a much more useful mini-tablet than it is a phone. Honestly, the phone part is not that gr...

The golden jubilee of a diamond-bright icon is upon us as the Barbie doll, introduced at the American International Toy Fair of 1959, passes a milestone on March 9. This presents an occasion to praise her timeless charms, to damn her anti-feminism, and, for those wired for negative capability, to ho...

Have you ever googled something and thought “If only I could just ask the computer this question instead of typing in keywords, sifting through pages and pages of crap and finally find THE ANSWER” buried in one of the web pages?” There has got to be a better way. Every science fict...

If you’re a baseball fan, you don’t want to miss Opening Day on PlayStation. From Road To The Show to Franchise Mode to Online Leagues, there is something for everyone in MLB 09 The Show. Regardless of which PlayStation is your platform of choice, the MLB franchise dubbed “best spo...

As I stated, I am going through the book "Killing Cockroaches" by Tony Morgan. But I'm not just reading it. Every few pages, I stop and assess where I am concerning what I just read. Not that Tony has all the answers- even he will tell you that he doesn't. But he is a wise leader w...

One used to get the sense that the most die-hard viewers of the Weather Channel never actually left the house. If, say, you really want to know what the weather is like where you are, then the sensible thing to do is to pick up the paper or go to the network's site or to stick your pointy head out t...

In this sequel to a novel they wrote 33 years ago, perennial collaborators Niven and Pournelle check up on popular science fiction author Allen Carpentier, born Carpenter, who 33 years ago fell out a convention hotel window and found himself struggling to flee a Hell modeled on (but substantially up...

No flowers, no candlelight dinner, no jewelry, and no candy…all she asked for was a handwritten letter from me for Valentine’s Day. I hope the content makes up for the fact I typed it all out… Hottie, Baby, Gorgeous, My Angel, Beautiful, and sometimes Sherry, I know that you asked for a handwr...

Dollhouse (Fox, Fridays at 9 p.m. ET), created by Buffy the Vampire Slayer maestro Joss Whedon, stars Buffy alumna Eliza Dushku as a sort-of Stepford wife, a not-quite Nikita. The character, named Echo like the Narcissus-type nymph and the Marvel Comics supervamp samurai, has an obscure past and a n...

Gartner pissed in the proverbial punchbowl this week with their prognostication that cloud computing will not be mature until 2015. Jon Foley was surprised by the conservative nature of this prediction. Rightscale reacted (appropriately and expectedly) by saying “but it’s exciting now!&#...