Explode Into Colors is a band out of Olympia featuring “three weird aunts”– one of which is Lisa of longtime Catbird favorite Kickball (the other members are Claudia Meza of Japanther and Heather Treadway of Tender Forever). Kill Rock Stars will be putting out a single later this s...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Bad Apple, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch Update: Cooler heads appear to have prevailed, and Loren reports that Tweetie 1.3 has cleared the App Store bluenose barrier and should be showing up later tonight. We saw this hit the fan early today, hot on the tail of the A...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/apple/Apple_rejects_Twitter_client_for_dirty_words_on_Twitter'; Apple's just reached a whole new level of stupidity in App Store approval shenanigans: the Tweetie 1.3 update was just rejected for displaying "offensive language" in its Twitter trend search view. Right, not...

It’s with tremendous pride and excitement that I use my first blog post in over a month to announce the launch of Legacy Locker. I’m one of the founders of the site, and I wanted to share a little backstory to where it came from and how it got here. Two different personal events occured ...

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends, Internet, Apple, Developer, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch Jonathan Zdziarski, who has appeared on this pages before for other iPhone-related hijinx, has written an open letter to Apple about the AMBER Alert iPhone app he's written. Apparently he's work...

lol no really A radioactive principal facing child porn charges is on the run and a danger to anyone he comes across, police have warned. Thomas Leopold, 42, fled days before his trial for paedophilia and just after having a large amount of radiotherapy treatment for his thyroid condition. Doctors f...

The Herald 27 February 2009 THE Ministry of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture has ordered schools not to turn away children for failing to pay fees while awaiting a Cabinet decision next week on recommendations on a new fee structure. In an interview yesterday, Minister of Education, Sport, Arts an...

Anyone who knows me probably knows how I feel about Crisco®. (First, it's hydrogenated, "trans" fat of the man-made kind. I consider hydrogenated, artificial trans-fats unfit for consumption by people or pets, because of many deleterious health effects. Heart disease, wrinkles, aging from the insid...

A child was asked to write a book report on the entire Bible. This is amazing and brought tears of laughter to my eyes. I wonder how often we take for granted that children understand what we are teaching? Through the eyes of a child: The Children's Bible in a Nutshell In the beginning, which occurr...

CRICKET360 PITCHED BY EDITOR SATURDAY, 21 FEBRUARY 2009 It was a bad past few days for cricket and cricket news, with the mother of all cricket scandals, a pitch that crumbled so that playing on it was impossible, and cricket leagues troubled with financial and other troubles. Now however, things ma...