Shot In The Dark

Get Your Boondoggle On

The latest mania among city governments is to provide citywide Wi-Fi (wireless fast internet) as a public utility - in short, to make an entire city a wireless "hot spot". I've asked since the beginning of this craze - where's...

A Tale of Dual, Interconnected yet Disparate Modalities

It's easy to do fake art criticism; stream together enough pretentious cliches, and you can get published. It's not much harder in the soft-sciences; I'm sure most any education or psychology department could be suckered by a paper full of...

#1 Reason To Fly Continental

Their planes don't molt in flight. Northwest: the David Dinkins of airlines....

Death of Microsoft?

Michael S. Malone wonders if Microsoft is doomed:Great, healthy companies not only dominate the market, but share of mind. Look at Apple these days. But when was the last time you thought about Microsoft, except in frustration or anger? The...

Geek Heaven

There's a new chip in town:Semiconductor designers from International Business Machines, Sony and Toshiba will reveal on Monday the inner workings of a “supercomputer on a chip” they claim could revolutionise communications, multimedia and consumer electronicsIf I read this correctly,...

Movable Hype

The whole blog world is moving to Movable Type, it seems. I know I want to make the switch. When I see the problems that Blogger is giving me with my permalinks and archives, I know I have to...