You remember back in The Dark Ages when George W. Bush was president? You Googled “miserable failure” and President Bush’s White House biography was the…
Last night I watched an episode of Arrested Development on Hulu. Before it started, I was presented with a choice: would I like to watch…
The AP on January 29, 2009:
PASADENA, Calif.—Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., are trying to figure out why the Mars rover…
Daniel brought this to my attention a few days ago, but I didn’t have a chance to comment on it until today; it looks like…
The Secret Service is going to have to pry Obama’s Blackberry from his cold, dead hands:
“I’m still clinging to my BlackBerry,” Mr. Obama said…
SoapBlox, which hosts a large number of a progressive blogs, including some big ones like Pam’s House Blend, is folding following a major hacker attack…
Is it time to start messing with the earth’s natural systems to curb the worst effects of global warming?
Over the weekend, The Independent asked…
LifeHacker reports:
The good news: CNET has sources saying the three largest music labels will allow Apple to offer music downloads free of copy-protection. And…
While most kids, if they’re Christian, learn their life lessons from the Bible (or, if they’re Jewish, the collected works of Chaim Potok), I learned…
As Gawker points out, it’s surprising that today’s New York Times features a front-page ad, but not for the reasons you’d think:
The only thing…
Jesse wrote on Thursday about “Open for Questions,” the Obama transition team’s Web 2.0 effort to allow visitors to Change.gov to vote on what questions…
Chalk one up for art.
So, my reason for living/favorite blog Gawker and all its sister sites launched a new redesign yesterday. As they say, it is meant to make…
Well this is pretty remarkable and terrifying:
Researchers from Japan’s ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories have developed new brain analysis technology that can reconstruct the images…
Ben Smith has an interesting, very Web 2.0 post on “Open for Questions,” a “Digg-style feature allowing citizens to submit questions, and to vote on…
The Compass, run by the editors of the The Claremont Port Side, offers comprehensive takes on everything from the economy to international affairs. Check it out.
