The old laptops, desktops, monitors, printers, and scanners are piling up in the back corner, but getting rid of them at the local recycling center usually costs money. That's why it warms my heart that almost every day it seems another retailer is getting into the recycling business. This time arou...

In her new book “An Altar in the World,” bestselling author Barbara Brown Taylor writes about “the practice of paying attention.” She explains: The practice of paying attention is as simple as looking twice at people and things you might just as easily ignore. To see takes ti...

So, for some reason I no longer recall, I decided to see how hard it would be to edit a little video together in Linux. The result was this: the kids and I each made a music video with LiVES, and Tracey did one in iMovie. Our oldest is hosting these on her YouTube account. (To be fair, I didn’...

“The hardest part of all this is my loss of security and my lack of control over my own finances and future. I feel vulnerable and completely powerless to change any of this. It angers me that other people are determining my fate. Especially since they are doing such a pathetic job of it.� ~Dawn...

In September of 2006, I wrote a piece called The Future of White Boy Clubs taking to task Ryan Carson for putting together a speaker lineup for his Future of Web Apps conference made up entirely of white men (for the record, Tantek resents being lumped in as “white”; he’s says he’s T...

Intel sues Nvidia over whether the latter can sell chipsets for new Intel CPUs; a California law banning the sale or rental of violent video games to minors has been struck down; the Vista Capable lawsuit is no longer a class action; one search engine sues Google for antitrust; Google wins privacy s...

In an economy that increasingly favors cheap deals, Starbucks has been flailing while its competitors take advantage. McDonald's is expanding its McCafe into more and more markets, while Dunkin' Donuts is running various promotions as well as investing in advertising and new stores. Both companies a...

Today I went to the Woori Bank to get my 공� �중서, which is, basically, a little electronic certificate that I need to have in order to file my taxes. (Which I can only do on paper now: the electronic tax filing through my workplace closed a week ago, and the office assistants either didn...

A friend of mine had a birthday yesterday (Sunday 1/25/09). He has a facebook account, which shows your birthday to all your “friends� on facebook, and so when he woke up Sunday morning he had all... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ...

This will be a big year for new operating systems. Apple (AAPL) plans a new version of its Macintosh operating system, to be called Snow Leopard. Palm (PALM) plans an all-new smart phone operating system called Palm WebOS. But the new release that will affect more users than any other will be Window...