The Problem With Letting The Government Provide Private-Sector Services
There are many in this country who love the idea of government providing us with certain services that are now provided by the private sector. Health care is a big…...
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Saturday, April 21, 2007
Saturday, March 31, 2007
Google Re-Victimizes Katrina Victims
How dare Google disrespect the memory of the tragedy and suffering the Katrina VictimsTM went through by replacing the satellite imagery of flooded New Orleans in their map system with…...
Thursday, March 08, 2007
Somehow I Don’t Think Second Life Is Going To Catch On As A Campaign Tool
Lately I’ve been messing around a bit with the online community Second Life. I’m not much on computer games any more (not since about my sophomore year of high school),…...
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Flip, The Coolest Ship You’ll See All Day
Awesome… Watch to the end to see how the inside of the ship is designed so that bathrooms, beds and kitchens are still usable even after the flip. I was…...
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Support The Slaughter Of Unborn Children And Get Great Wireless Service
All with one easy plan! Better act quick. This offer is only available until March 31st. ...
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Steve Jobs Worshiping Tech Writer Abandons Him On Union Comments
A few days ago I posted on comments made by Apple CEO Steve Jobs about teachers unions. Basically, Jobs opined that no amount of technology in the classroom is going…...
Saturday, February 17, 2007
Apple’s Steve Jobs: Education Won’t Improve Until Bad Teachers Can Be Fired
Like a breath of fresh air… Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs lambasted teacher unions today, claiming no amount of technology in the classroom would improve public schools until principals could…...
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Republican Congressman Wants ISP’s To Keep Your Internet Surfing, Emailing Activity Indefinetly
What a stupid idea... A bill introduced to the US House of Representatives would require ISPs to record all users’ surfing activity, IM conversations and email traffic indefinitely. The bill,…...
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Edwards Campaign Fires Bloggers
This is probably a little too “inside blog baseball” for the casual blog reader, but according to Ace the Edwards campaign has fired two liberal bloggers it hired after some…...
Saturday, February 03, 2007
Review: PeaceMaker, The Video Game Version Of The Iraeli/Palestinian Conflict
Recently I got an opportunity, courtesy of ImpactGames via Pajamas Media, to play a review copy of PeaceMaker, which is a game about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and peace process. The…...
Thursday, January 18, 2007
MySpace Hit With Lawsuits From Parents Of Kids Victimized By Online Predators
Because, you know, MySpace is responsible for the actions of online predators. NEW YORK - Four families have sued News Corp. and its MySpace social-networking site after their underage daughters…...
Sunday, January 07, 2007
Well We Didn’t Need Those Embryonic Stem Cells Anyway
A Scientific Breakthrough: The amniotic stem cells grew readily into independent cell lines, or colonies, doubling in just 36 hours, the paper says. It was published in Sunday’s edition of…...
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Blogs Written By Fools For Imbeciles?
The Wall Street Journal has a column up by someone named Joseph Rago about blogging. The subtitle of the column is “Written by fools to be read by imbeciles.” Which…...
Sunday, December 17, 2006
I’m Time’s Person Of The Year
Well, not me exactly, but rather all of the people (most of them much more talented than I) who contribute to the online community by writing on blogs and posting…...
Monday, November 20, 2006
An Important Court Ruling For Bloggers
This is good news. The California Supreme Court today reversed an appeals court decision in a much-watched Internet case, ruling that individuals are generally immune from liability for transmitting over…...
Saturday, November 04, 2006
Printer Ink More Expensive Than Blood
I don’t print a lot of stuff out (we’re very in to the whole “paperless office” thing where I work), but I knew printer ink was expensive. Still, this is…...
Monday, October 23, 2006
Liberal Activists Take To “Google Bombing”
This is just plain unconscionable. Whatever the politics of Google’s founders and employees may be (and I think they’re pretty liberal), manipulating what is supposed to be an unbiased tool…...
Sunday, October 22, 2006
Dispelling Wishful Thinking On Minimum Wage
Steve Chapman: The Economic Policy Institute, a Washington research group, recently unveiled a newspaper ad trumpeting a statement signed by some 675 economists who endorse raising the minimum wage from…...
Thursday, October 19, 2006
Will The IRS Be Setting Up Virtual Offices?
First virtual reporters, now we’re looking at virtual taxmen. LONDON (Reuters) - Users of online worlds such as Second Life and World of Warcraft transact millions of dollars worth of…...
Monday, October 16, 2006
Reuters To Cover Virtual News
And by “virtual news” I don’t mean that fake-but-accurate stuff Dan Rather and CBS is famous for, but rather an actual virtual reality society. NEW YORK In preparing to open…...
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Destruction Of Government Property
But in a good way: That's going to leave a mark on HP's image....
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
The Power of the Mind
From Reuters: LONDON (Reuters) - A paralyzed man using a new brain sensor has been able to move a computer cursor, open e-mail and control a robotic device simply by…...
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Google To Take On Paypal
Cool... For years, consumers who didn't want to give Web merchants their credit-card information faced limited options when it came to making purchases online. This week, consumers could get access…...
Friday, June 23, 2006
Guy Arrested For Using Coffee Shop’s Wireless Access
Hmmm... A Vancouver, Wash. coffee shop tired of seeing a 20-year-old man mooch off their free wireless Internet access called the police, who charged him with "theft of services." Brewed…...
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Attack of the Seminar Commenters
A not-so-new but aggressive defense mechanism has been unleashed in the blogosphere. Say something bad about Islam, scientology, Al-Goreble-Warming, and other things and you will get comments like this: A…...
Monday, June 12, 2006
Zarqawi Safe House on Google Earth
For anybody who's downloaded Google Earth, it's an incredibly cool product from Google for viewing the Earth from space. You can rotate the view, change the angle of view (to…...
Friday, June 02, 2006
San Fran Gets Hybrid Buses, But Are They Worth It?
The city of San Francisco took delivery of its first Orion diesel-electric hybrid bus from DaimlerChrysler yesterday. It ordered a total of 56. Frisco mayor Gavin Newsom says that once…...
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Search Trends
Hmm... Google lifted the veil this week on one of its best-kept secrets: which nations search for what. Who looks up democracy most avidly? Who seeks out Allah or Christ…...
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
Build Your Own Computer At Wal-Mart
Whoa... CHICAGO (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will start selling build-your-own-computer components in more than one-third of its U.S. discount stores this month as it looks for ways to tempt…...
Thursday, March 30, 2006
Picture Rims
These serve absolutely no practical purpose, but I want them anyway. According to this they cost about $12,000 for a set. At that price, they'd better include the blonde in…...
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