I echo Charles R. Larson's sentiments ["In This Game of Slots, D.C. Drivers Are the Losers," Local Opinions, March 8]. I often park at meters in Northwest, and I, too, have put in my first quarter without getting any time in return. Generally, if I put in another quarter, some time will register. Bu...

Time Warner Cable is running a pilot program in Texas where they're metering your bandwidth usage and charging extra if you exceed your monthly allotment. This also gives them the opportunity to create a tiered system where you pay more for more bandwidth. Richard is a TWC Texas customer, and his st...

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Excellent piece by Joel Kotkin on "The Decline of Los Angeles."  A mentor of mine told me several years ago that Los Angeles is a city with its best days behind it.  That appears to be true.  Kotkin chronicles how the City has fallen on economic hard times, the middle class and... [[ ...

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Cartoonist Dan Meth has created what he calls The Trilogy Meter, which, as you can see above, is a chart that lists several different movie trilogies and then rates them on a high-low scale. The image above is smaller than the actual completed version (view that by clicking the image below), which g...

PC Magazine has an interesting article on how the Google PowerMeter is more than just a handy way to go green. It could be the catalyst for a home automation movement (remember those lights that turned on and off when you clapped?): Google’s PowerMeter, which will enable consumers to see how much ...

Share any kind of online content in one place with Noovo. This “social discovery engine� is a blogging, bookmarking, lifestreaming, content sharing application – not a social network. The Noovo Corporation is based in California and Slovenia, and the Noovo app recently launched out of private ...

energy, wireless, networking Wade Roush wrote: If you’re a glass-half-empty person, you might say the mesh networking technology pioneered by Boston’s Ember Corporation is a solution in search of a problem. If you’re a glass-half-full person, you’d probably call the company&#...

Steven Chu established himself as a well-known scientist and administrator years ago, running the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and winning a Nobel Prize. He has called for urgent action on climate change and (now famously) described coal as his “worst nightmare,” so cheers from ...