Phone pirates in seek and steal mission

This sounds fishy. One wonders how the “crooks” are detecting electronics equipment that’s turned off and stored in the trunk....

Coyne and Mooney on “intelligent design”

Appearing shortly after President Bush’s August 1, 2005, remarks that seemed to endorse the teaching of “intelligent design” in the...

I’d fire this lawyer

If this were my mouthpiece, I’d send him packing. Imagine — not putting the recipient’s name on an official request…...

The Way To More Questions

If a high-ranking LAPD official can be believed, perhaps the Scientology-affiliated The Way To Happiness should take a page from...

episode iii, the backstroke of the west

Interesting to see what StarWars Episode 3 looks like when translated into Chinese, and back into English. smelly_boy.jpg

Sun takes DRM open source

Digital Rights Management may currently be the single most contentious issue amongst computer users and music and DVD buyers but...

The Empire Strikes Back at the Soffits

Finally persuaded R to watch “Empire Strikes Back” tonight. She said she liked it, but fell short of calling it...

On Google Maps Mashups and Google Maps Mash-Ups

I was just reading this interesting link from a blog, commenting on how USA Today was putting in hyphens in...

Science Labs Don’t Measure Up

While sleek crime-scene TV shows have turned students on to forensic science, an investigation of today’s high school laboratories shows...

From blah to ahhh

Now this is alright. Got some Miles Davis/Thelonius Monk playing in the house, and I’m sitting on the back patio,...