Wired has an article about Delicious Monster, an up-and-coming software company specializing in Mac software. Their first product Delicious Library, provides those of us who have a need to catalog our DVDs, books, CDs, etc with an easy way to do this. Unfortunately, I have barely used the software, but …

Frontline (the PBS investigative program) has an excellent set of information on the web about credit cards called The Secret History of the Credit Card. From the Eight things a credit card user should know to the quiz about credit cards, this is a fascinating site and I would encourage …

A staple of interesting election information is now back in the fact checking game! Factcheck.org has posted their first new article since the end of the 2004 election. The article discusses Social Security advertising, finding fault with an AARP ad and finding that a Bush-supporting ad used correct statistics …

In an article from Groklaw, the author points to a recent apparent agreement between the State of Massachusetts and Microsoft about the use of Microsoft Office file formats and compliance with recent requirements from the state about open file format use. It appears that the state is pushing the company …

While reading a recent letter to The Economist, I noticed a citation of the 1997 Treaty with Tripoli on the issue of the US as a religious state. I did a quick Google search to find out more and found a ton of citations around the net from various groups …

Many of you in the DC area have already heard about this, but as of January 12 at noon, WHFS, the radio station that has been bringing progressive/alternative rock to the DC area for 20+ years and the annual purveyor of the HFStival, has changed format to a Spanish-language …

This was possibly a victory for good journalism, maybe a victory for the bloggers, and perhaps just a sign that the guy who gets elected gets his way with the media. I'm not entirely sure which, but the Washington Post has an article about CBS's firing of 4 staffers related …

In a passionate and detailed article, Popular Science takes the movie industry and the MPAA to task over their strangle-hold on content on DVDs. The article describes the faustian bargain that we all made with the movie industry when we accepted their copy protection scheme, since broken many times and …

At CES this past week, Microsoft's Bill Gates had some trouble with his demos, including the wonderful Blue Screen of Death on an XBox demo and difficulties with the Media Edition of Windows. According to an article, Conan O'Brien was hired to warm up the crowd and provide some comic …

At CES, DirecTV announced during a technical discussion that they would be moving to MPEG-4 for their HDTV delivery. Along with the launch of four more satellites this year, they are expecting the technology switch to allow them to offer a bevy of new HD channels, including local channels in …

According to an article from eHam.net (and other sources) the N2XE beacon (CW at 80m with a whopping 40.6µW) was received by W4ZV at a distance of 546.8 miles, making the distance per watt a full 13,467,980 miles per watt.

Not that anyone doubted that the iPod had become an icon, but I'm sure Apple approves of the nod to its newest member, the iPod Photo, by Playboy. Playboy has announced availability of iBod, a new feature that will provide downloadable nude photos sized just for the iPod Photo.

Admittedly, I'm not one to jump on the latest food research bandwagon, but when it says eating Indian food might help fight Alzheimer's, I'm definitely in. An article from WebMD published today indicates that researchers at UCLA have just completed a study with the VA that shows the antioxidant benefits …

I know, you're wondering why we continue to go to films in the theater if we hate everything we see. Well, here's reason enough: The Aviator. I'm not a huge Leonardo DiCaprio fan, but this is likely his best effort since What's Eating Gilbert Grape. And Cate Blanchett does a …

BBC News is hosting a forum where people can post first-person pictures and stories about the tsunami. There is some amazing stuff there.

I hate to come off as an angry man, especially right after the holidays, but I'm trying to get back into the swing of writing reviews and we've just come off a series of disappointing films, so here's the review for yet another one: Meet the Fockers. The capsule is …

Christmas with the Kranks starts out with a an interesting premise (the empty-nest Christmas problem) and quickly runs downhill into the A Christmas Carol plot. On balance, it's not a bad film, but it's not a good film. If you're looking for a film with a nice happy ending and …

Continuing with our holiday fare of movie reviews, is the film with the longest title this Christmas: Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. We went to see it with our niece and nephews in Colorado just before Christmas (hi to Kelsey, Kyle, and Richard, if you're reading this) and …

The quick summary is: don't waste your money. Don't go see it in the theater, don't rent it (even if you have NetFlix), and certainly don't buy it! The only exception to this rule that I can see is that if you see it coming up on cable and you …

Tivo, the acknowledged leader in Personal Video Recorders (PVRs), has announced the availability of their new TivoToGo service. Of course, they've short-sightedly released it only for the PC (Windows 2000 and Windows XP), but if you have a Series 2 TiVo (people with DirecTV TiVos need not apply), you can …