When John Kanzius of Erie, PA man announced he’d ignited salt water with the radio-frequency generator he’d invented, some thought it was a hoax. Not only is it not a hoax, scientists know why burns the way it does and he has been able to keep salt water in a test tube burning like a […]
DRM stands for digital rights management, aka the utter bullshit that companies use to “protect” their content from the very people who gave them money for said content in the first place. DRM sucks and not just because the song/show/movie you bought will only play on certain “approved” device(s) – there are about 10 other […]
For those who have a few minutes for a geeky laugh, check out the video below. My favorite part of “Vista Sucks” is when the announcer says, “From the company that taught you to turn off the computer by clicking the start button.” Enjoy. 2013 UPDATE: the video mentioned above has been removed due to […]
I read the word “ubiquity” in a presentation today and immediately “be obsequious, purple, and clairvoyant” popped into my mind. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, its a line from The Grandmother’s Song by Steve Martin. I love it – it starts off quite simple and then gets progressively weirder and funnier each […]
At long last, Led Zeppelin is going to sell their music archive in a digital format. This event is coinciding with the release of the new Led Zep box set and will only stoke the crazy enthusiastic fan fires that have been burning bright ever since the group announced that they are playing as a […]
If you have not heard of Ze Frank, well, you haven’t been paying attention to the blogosphere because he is one of the most “famous” bloggers out there. Frank won a 2002 Webby Award for Best Personal Websit, in 2005, he was featured in Time Magazine’s “50 Coolest Websites” and Frank spoke at the TED […]
I’ve been catching up on old Thomas Friedman columns and getting nice and angry about what is taking place in the good old USA. Here is the last part of his recent Charge It To My Kids column: Previous American generations connected with our troops by making sacrifices at home — we’ve never passed on […]
NYT Op-Ed Columnist David Brooks just wrote a piece called the Odyssey Years whose premise is that there used to be four common life phases but now there are at least six. Old phases: childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age. New phases: childhood, adolescence, odyssey, adulthood, active retirement and old age. He says that the […]
I use the Internet every day. I even managed to do so while on vacation in Hawaii using my T-Mobile data driven Blackberry Pearl so I’m curious if more people are like me or if I’m the minority when it comes to web usage. Therefore, I was happy to hear that Avenue A | Razorfish […]
Stanley Fish was asked 10 questions about democracy by the BBC. Two questions are related to one another: “What is the biggest threat to democracy?” and “Can terrorism destroy democracy?” and I thought I would share his responses I thought they were not only insightful and sum up how I feel: The answers depend on […]