Among the people who agree that more people need to get into computers and engineering is Leah Buechley, an assistant professor at MIT's famous Media Lab. That's why, at ETech in San Jose today, she gave a explaining the secret super powers of electronic fashion. "It's not enough to take existing mo...

Continuing my theme of nothing Obama and Congress are doing right now is anything but predictable and boring, I'm going to elevate a couple of comments focusing on political philosophies. Sure, Obama's good for laugh-a-day headlines - He's taking on the teacher's unions by supporting merit pay and q...

Every Wednesday, we review a selection of new and upcoming books addressing a specific aspect of environmentalism. Today we're recommending books about food and its relation to the environment . Righteous Porkchop: Finding a Life and Good Food Beyond Factory Farms  (by Nicolett...

Today, AT&T made a major announcement: that it will invest more than a half-billion dollars over the next decade to purchase more than 15,000 alternative-fueled vehicles — 8,000 vans powered by compressed natural gas, and another 7,100 hybrid passenger cars. The telecommunications giant estima...

Will the coming of new 3D Technologies Change the SERPS? By John Alexander Now before you think I've been watching too much science fiction, realize that these things could very well be experienced in the near future with the advent of new monitor screens, new flat screen TVs, Cell phone screens, mo...

If you read this blog regularly, you will know that I am picky. Given the plethora of websites, resources, search engines and ‘time-saving’ tools out there, why not be?  Since I have been politely asked by the folks at AltSearchEngines to give a list of favoured search engines, I am happy to do...

There is, of course news of the other sort. But the bad news is easy to find and usually much more widely discussed. Here instead is a round up of the positive news stories from 20 February to 6 March 2009 from Afghanistan. I focus on this, not only to attempt to balance the scales in the tone depar...

It is no new theory that language evolves and that trapping changes in word meaning and word association lies at the heart of the phraseology employed by SEO firms to help target a website’s audience. But what’s more important in some respects are the bursts of attention that often precede chang...

In this week's Technology section of the paper, I celebrate the flourishing public-access game development engine scene, user-friendly templates, languages and tech that allows anyone to put their game design ideas into practice with a few clicks. I discovered the trend last week when in Chicago, he...

A reader pointed me to this post which discusses how the eco-fascists of our planet would like to label "denial" about global warming a mental illness. The idea that ‘climate change denial’ is a psychological disorder – the product of a spiteful, wilful or simply in-built neural inability to f...