When Apple's Macintosh Mini was announced, people noticed that it was conveniently smaller than a standard DIN car stereo. However, CNet is reporting that Classic Restorations (a New York based auto restoration company) has already announced its intention to put Mac Minis inside of cars. No word yet on pricing …

An interesting article in the New York Times discusses the role that the secret police in the Ukraine played in the events of the most recent election season. While there is some debate of the motives, indications are pretty clear that the secret police aided the protesters and the opposition …

Appearing on the Xbench comparison site yesterday, the Mac Mini (1.42GHz, the US$599 model) results. I did a quick comparison of that to the iMac G5 and found it to be about 2/3 of the speed (overall) (not surprising given that was a 1.8GHz G5). Comparing …

According to an article on The Register, Siemens is preparing to exit the cellular phone business. The original article from the Sunday Telegraph (registration required), indicates that an announcement will be made at the January 27, 2005 meeting of the Siemens' board of directors. The mobile division is losing money …

It's not a huge surprise to have the CEO of Dell (Kevin Rollins) decrying Apple's business strategy, but in this article in Silicon.com, Rollins shows some interesting "insights" (so to speak) about consumer electronics and the consumer industry. At one point, he remarks that the iPod is a "one …

I'm guessing from the age of the founders, that they're not just trying to shore up their diets. If CNET is right in this article, Google may be seeking to build at least a partial backbone network.

The movie, In Good Company, starring Dennis Quaid and Topher Grace (Eric from That Seventy's Show) is called a workplace comedy drama, and for good reason. The acting and writing provide a refreshing step away from many of the pieces of shallow movie-fare that we've been seeing lately and the …

PC Magazine has published an article reviewing a variety of VOIP offerings, including AT&T, Vonage, VoiceWing (Verizon), Broadvox, Lingo, and VoicePulse. AT&T wins the shoot-out.

Wired has an article about Delicious Monster, an up-and-coming software company specializing in Mac software. Their first product Delicious Library, provides those of us who have a need to catalog our DVDs, books, CDs, etc with an easy way to do this. Unfortunately, I have barely used the software, but …

Frontline (the PBS investigative program) has an excellent set of information on the web about credit cards called The Secret History of the Credit Card. From the Eight things a credit card user should know to the quiz about credit cards, this is a fascinating site and I would encourage …

A staple of interesting election information is now back in the fact checking game! Factcheck.org has posted their first new article since the end of the 2004 election. The article discusses Social Security advertising, finding fault with an AARP ad and finding that a Bush-supporting ad used correct statistics …

In an article from Groklaw, the author points to a recent apparent agreement between the State of Massachusetts and Microsoft about the use of Microsoft Office file formats and compliance with recent requirements from the state about open file format use. It appears that the state is pushing the company …

While reading a recent letter to The Economist, I noticed a citation of the 1997 Treaty with Tripoli on the issue of the US as a religious state. I did a quick Google search to find out more and found a ton of citations around the net from various groups …

Many of you in the DC area have already heard about this, but as of January 12 at noon, WHFS, the radio station that has been bringing progressive/alternative rock to the DC area for 20+ years and the annual purveyor of the HFStival, has changed format to a Spanish-language …

This was possibly a victory for good journalism, maybe a victory for the bloggers, and perhaps just a sign that the guy who gets elected gets his way with the media. I'm not entirely sure which, but the Washington Post has an article about CBS's firing of 4 staffers related …

In a passionate and detailed article, Popular Science takes the movie industry and the MPAA to task over their strangle-hold on content on DVDs. The article describes the faustian bargain that we all made with the movie industry when we accepted their copy protection scheme, since broken many times and …

At CES this past week, Microsoft's Bill Gates had some trouble with his demos, including the wonderful Blue Screen of Death on an XBox demo and difficulties with the Media Edition of Windows. According to an article, Conan O'Brien was hired to warm up the crowd and provide some comic …

At CES, DirecTV announced during a technical discussion that they would be moving to MPEG-4 for their HDTV delivery. Along with the launch of four more satellites this year, they are expecting the technology switch to allow them to offer a bevy of new HD channels, including local channels in …

According to an article from eHam.net (and other sources) the N2XE beacon (CW at 80m with a whopping 40.6µW) was received by W4ZV at a distance of 546.8 miles, making the distance per watt a full 13,467,980 miles per watt.

Not that anyone doubted that the iPod had become an icon, but I'm sure Apple approves of the nod to its newest member, the iPod Photo, by Playboy. Playboy has announced availability of iBod, a new feature that will provide downloadable nude photos sized just for the iPod Photo.