Again a easy (cowardly?) paraphrase of Seth's piece in CiF Opening eyes in Israel. No, it's not going to be a strictly confrontational response. After all, it could be a matter of some pride that, as Seth reports, there are Jewish youngsters that are ready to give a hand to Jewish and Arab poor, the...

The rain is cold and very wet. It is also much needed. And, perhaps the cold and wet day has also dampened other things. Hopefully I can be vague enough to not reveal identities and yet specific enough to speak to the issue. God himself knows that there are certainly enough examples, so protecting i...

Okay so I'm not really a newbie, but this bugs the crap out of me (rant on). Every so often I need to change the system time. I run "man date" and always find the "date -s" command, but for who knows how long, the manual page has *never* listed the format of the input string requ...

by Stoney deGeyter This is a continuing series of questions that need to be asked before you engage in any kind of SEO strategies or services. We started in Part I with questions that need to be answered if you in-source your SEO campaigns, specifically addressed questions about doing it yourself. I...

"Is it racist for white people to shoot black zombies?" asks the prestigious Wall Street Journal. It's a touchy issue, and we all have our opinions. But are those opinions stupid? This zombie racism controversy has arisen because "Resident Evil 5" features a white hero shooting African zombies, beca...

Anyone who reads this blog knows that I have little patience for attempting to run churches by business principles. That’s been weighed in the scale and found wanting every time it’s been attempted. Last evening, as I was prepping for an interview I was to conduct with a supply chain exp...

Lam is a disgusting person, and this is his disgusting keyboard. He claims the damage was done by "typing too hard." I claim that he's just a dirty man. [Blam: Idiot, its not buildup, its the keys......

REAL SILLY The following op-ed piece in the San Francisco Chronicle is worth some attention involving an initiative called RealDVD* by Real Networks.  Titled the "Movie industry's shortsighted fight", it explains: "Thomas Edison, probably America's best-known and most prominent inventor of all time...

That's right, thanks to Kazuhiro Taniguchi of Osaka University, soon stopping the music on your iPod will be as simple as sticking out your ass-shaped tongue. The Ear Switch looks like a normal set of headphones, according to an Agence France Press report, but includes a set of sensors that allows i...

When we tallied up the results from our 2009 reader poll, I promised to invite more ongoing conversation by pointing out some of the interesting comment threads that are popping up in articles long after the original publication date. There's a large amount of untapped insight and perspective in som...