Posts by D. H. McKee

Grounded: Millionaire John Gilmore stays close to home while making a point about privacy

John Gilmore’s splendid isolation began July 4, 2002, when, with defiance aforethought, he strolled to the Southwest Airlines counter at...

Copyrights Keep TV Shows off DVD

WKRP in Cincinnati was one of the most popular television shows of the late ’70s and early ’80s, but it...

Penrose: The Answer’s Not 42

In 1998, Stephen Hawking laid 50-50 odds that the holy grail of physics, the elusive “theory of everything,” was less...

Firefox Market Share Grows, Internet Explorer Falls

The Mozilla Firefox web browser has increased its total global usage to 8.5% according to Onestat.com, a leading web analytics...

Juvenile Death Penalty Banned by U.S. Supreme Court

A divided U.S. Supreme Court outlawed executions of murderers who were under 18 at the time of the crime, saying...

Zachary Aidan

Zachary Aidan is my new nephew’s name. Sounds like a perfectly serviceable name to me, but wouldn’t have been my...

Toronto director wins animation Oscar

Local filmmaker Chris Landreth won an Academy Award Sunday for his animated short film Ryan. The film tells the story...

Urban Legend: Is Clint Eastwood the son of comic Stan Laurel?

No. Urban legendry abounds with rumors concerning famous people who are supposedly the unacknowledged (and usually illegitimate) children of other...

AOL blocks music-copying feature

The company’s Winamp software was identified by bloggers this week as part of a process that transformed copy-protected music downloads...

FCC Censorship

When the Federal Communications Commission fined Clear Channel Communications $27,500 last year for each of eighteen incidents of “indecent material”...