Sorry Everybody

Some of us — hopefully most of us — are trying to understand and appreciate the effect our recent election...

Uncanny Valley

Although originally applied only to robotics, the principle has been applied to computer animation characters. The Uncanny Valley was considered...

Eerie Christmas: Scary animation derails film adaptation

The thing that often derails the picture, though, is its unintentional eeriness. Blame the computer animation. It makes the characters...

Server Panic

More yelling by this one customer. They threatened to fire me and get someone who would help them better. This...

Bush should obey Geneva Conventions

President George W. Bush should stop flouting federal and international law over the legal status of detainees in U.S. custody...

Firefox Officially Reignites Browser Wars

The Mozilla Foundation today officially released its open-source browser, Firefox 1.0, but the news won’t come as a surprise to...

Arctic Melting Fast; May Swamp U.S. Coasts by 2099

Scientists have determined that the ice in Greenland and the Arctic is melting so rapidly that much of it could...

Squeezing jello in Iraq

The much-anticipated US-led offensive to seize the Iraqi city of Falluja from anti-American Iraqi fighters has begun. Meeting resistance that,...

Fans flock to buy sci-fi epic “Halo 2”

There’s a new media king, only he isn’t on the radio or in the movies. His name? Master Chief. His...

Schroedinger’s Palestinian

It seems that Yasser Arafat has finally achieved a quantum state. Something most humans can only dream of.