Anyone else confused by all the economic news? No? Well then I guess it’s just me. Most of the news outlets I’ve seen and read don’t do an especially good job of explaining the situation, especially how we got here, and, more importantly, how all those supposedly smart people runni...

The Consumerist blog thinks they’ve found the worst food product ever. With one serving providing 1170% of your daily allowance for cholesterol (there’s no missing decimal in that number), it’s certainly a contender. Not to mention the name and contents of the can. However, it̵...

For those of you not into geek culture, you may not be aware that the trial of the century is now going on in Sweden. The big content companies are trying to shut down a site called The Pirate Bay (that link is not likely to work at school), which is basically nothing more than a big database that d...

Most educators would probably accept as valid the findings from this new study. Most politicians and educational “experts” will completely ignore them. A new study in the journal Social Science Quarterly reveals that music participation, defined as music lessons taken in or out of school...

On Meet The Press this morning, a collection of talking heads were arguing about the economy and specifically about what the government should be doing (or not doing) to help. As I’ve said before in this space, I don’t know enough about economics to make a rational judgement on any of th...

Jay Mathews looks at the educational options the Obamas have for schools in their new home town and wonders whether they should go public or private. My recommendation? Private. Their daughters will likely be spending eight years of their educational life in the city* and, although Mathews tries to ...

Buried deep in the A section of this morning’s Post, more evidence that President Obama* will be ready from day one to reverse some of the crap that’s come from eight years of the outgoing administration. Transition advisers to President-elect Barack Obama have compiled a list of about 2...

I’ve decided that developers should drop the pretense of releasing a “final” version of their products and just admit that all their software and web applications are beta. That thought came to mind this week as I played with the new version of the OS for my iPhone and tried to fig...

So, the hotel advertises free wireless in all rooms. What they don’t tell you is that the quality of the signal varies drastically depending on where you are in the room. The worst is sitting at the desk, which, of course, is where they might expect most people to be using a computer. The best...

At 8:30 pm, it’s still 91°? We normally don’t get this kind of crap weather until August....