1. Twister. Michael Clayton and Duplicity director (and Bourne screenwriter) Tony Gilroy gets the full New Yorker treatment. He seems to hate nearly everyone he's worked with! ["For the next 'Bourne,' Universal invited back Damon and Gilroy but looked for a new director. The studio offered the write...

(UPDATED) Shuttle Discovery launch postponed until the 15th due to fuel leak....crap NASA is now targeting March 15 for the planned launch of the space shuttle Discovery after a hydrogen gas leak thwarted an attempted liftoff on Wednesday. Launch is no targeted for no earlier than Sunday, Marc...

Below is a video we’ve all seen: Speaker Pelosi, in February 2007, denying that she or anybody in her office demanded the DOD provide her with a larger plane than the ones already provided to meet her personal-use demands. “I have never asked for any larger plane….We’ve never ask...

Downgraded: The mile-high club That’s what airlines need in order to survive the economic downturn: Hookers! “Federal prosecutors in Pennsylvania say [Roger] Sedlak used a non-existent airline, dubbed CQ Air, to arrange sex-for-cash trysts in hotels across state lines.” The thing i...

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Or at least, crawling back into the rhythym of daily life. Before I start really writing, I have a question for my readers who have “mommy blogs” of their own: do you ever sit down to write - at the end of the day, at naptime, or whenever - and think, “I just finally got a moment...

As recorded here, I started Tweeting a bit less than a fortnight ago. (Handle is @francismoran, if you’d like to follow me.) Today, I want to come up for air as I barely tread water in the Twitterstream and share a few first impressions. 1. Twitter is the most addictive thing since crystal met...

What to make of Santino, the chimp at Furuvik Zoo in Sweden that collected stones and threw them at visitors? Scientists are excited: [H]is behaviour has led scientists to conclude that premeditation is not a uniquely human trait. It seems chimpanzees, too, are capable of forward planning, and have ...

In our youth, we were one of those kids that liked to dream big and routinely answered the question, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" with "Astronaut." While that didn't quite work out (nor did our second choice of playing in the NBA) and we wound up with the equally lofty career of writin...

Last week I was off attending my first Java Posse Roundup in scenic Crested Butte Colorado, pictured below. There were many good discussions related to JDK 7 and other programming, and non-programming, topics. Unfortunately, There were some difficulties with my flight back. Once again, the plane I w...