Didn't know whether to put this pointer to an article from BBC News in Policy, Technology or Travel, as it deals with the Policy of British customs officials to use technology (in the form of a software scanner) to look for porn on the laptops of travelers. Amusing note: I …

Ok, gamers, here's an ad (ok, it's more like a PSA) for an in-game device that looks terribly cool. Thanks to RS for sending this one along.

Apple announced this week their 3rd quarter earnings, and they looked great! Check them out if you have a chance, but the important numbers are about half a billion in profit, 1.3M Macs sold (second largest quarterly sales of Macs in history, and best since 1Q2000) and good iPod …

An article from Wired looks at a number of recent fear articles about Apple and tries to boil things down. The summary is that in the absence of exciting new announcements, every bit of bad press about Apple is making near- mainstream status. Further, Apple has had a number of …

Wired has a good overview of green car technologies today, including flex-fuel, diesel, and hybrid cars. It's not terribly in depth, but it hits the high points and some of the low points of each of the now-available or available-this-year technologies.

So, you've been reading a lot about Global Warming and other environmental topics and you're interested in finding out just how much the power in your area pollutes. However, you're interested in more than just Carbon load, since although you may not believe in Global Warming, you are pretty certain …

Google (or google if you ask the Merriam- Webster dictionary) is now officially a verb. According to a story from CNet, Google was added to the EOD on June 15th of this year, and today Merriam-Webster added google.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the subject of a profile in Wired magazine. For those of you unfamiliar with the organization, it's a sort of ACLU with a strong technology bent and they've been at the forefront of issues such as the SONY/BMG case which dealt with copy …

So, given that we've now heard about 2 "defections" from the Macintosh to Ubuntu, I wanted to see what the fuss is all about, so that I could comment on things. So, I downloaded (via bittorrent) the latest (6.0.6) version of Ubuntu and gave it a whirl. My …

There have been a lot of reports lately about the loss of large volumes of data (thousands, tens of thousands, and hundreds of thousands of records in the public space and enterprise space), but one question I don't see often asked: Why so much data? And what should be done …

I know there are going to be plenty of people out there on the net that disagree with me, but yesterday's 66-34 vote that missed by one the opportunity to amend the US Constitution is both a happy thing and a sad thing. I'm certainly happy that it didn't make …

Wired has a cute piece about the words that have emerged surrounding the iPod and it's use. And, although I've never heard of it being called the iPizzle, the article is pretty funny.

Just for fun, here's the article that I wrote on March 6th 2003 that spawned the idea for my recently issued patent. I still think it's a frightening idea, but at least now I might have some control over whether it happens. While writing a summary story on a Wired …

Mr. Gore has a point. Carol and I have been putting off going to see An Inconvenient Truth for the last few weeks out of concern over boredom, propaganda, and general bad moviemaking. The reviews of this movie by others (which many of you may know I don't usually read …

The following is the text of a letter that I wrote in response to an article in the Washington Post this morning. The article asserted that pro-net neutrality groups' call to "keep the Internet where it belongs -- in the hands of its consumers" is "empty fluff that is obviously designed …

According to an article from this morning's Washington Post, the Hubble Space Telescope, producer of many of the best space images the world has seen, is now limping along without the use of its Advanced Camera for Surveys. The project page provides some details of the ACS, which is the …

In this article from Discovery News, Bruce Charlton, Reader in Evolutionary Psychiatry at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, puts forth that he thinks many educated adults never reach mental adulthood. Thoughts anyone? There is a short paper on related ideas by Dr. Charlton.

It's been a while since I could say this about a film, but run—do not walk—to Wordplay, the new documentary about the annual crossword puzzle tournament. I know, you're wondering if I've gone completely mental at this point. But, I assure you that Carol and I spent the …

I realize that now even CNet has gotten into the act with publicizing the defection of one long-time Macintosh user (Mark Pilgrim) and another who is making noise about possibly switching (Tim Bray of Sun). So, it's time to make some more noise about what's really happening. Unfortunately, I didn't …

From Space.com, and JHU's Applied Physics Lab, Pluto's moons (heretofore referred to as S/2005 P 1 and S/2005 P 2) have now been christened Hydra and Nix. The press release (from APL, not from the moons, which could not be reached for comment) details the mission that …