The Washington Post has a review (registration required) of Apple's new iPod Mini. Their technology writer likes it. In summary, the iPod Mini is a suitable replacement for just about any flash or hard drive-based player and if you are willing to pay the money for the size (a "real …

With a country split mostly down the middle, recent elections (1992 and 2000) showcased third-party candidates not only as vote getters, but as a fine way to erode support. In 1992, it was George H.W. Bush who was ousted when Republicans couldn't hold their lead over Bill Clinton. In …

An article from MacWorld UK contains quotes from the PalmSource VP of Business Development indicating that Apple's much-discussed secrecy makes it too difficult to keep up on the Macintosh platform. The article goes on to say they still consider the Mac community important and will try to work with Apple …

Although Windows seems to be continuing its growth in education markets (a sad slide for the venerable Apple stalwart), the scientific community is beginning to become a new battleground for the Mac vs. PC argument. An article from E-Commerce Times quotes NASA scientists, among others, who are finding the power …

The International Herald Tribune is carrying an article (originally from the New York Times, but not requiring a log in) about the California governor and his attempts to maintain his "Arnold-ness" while in the most powerful office in the state. The article speaks of motorcycle rides with friends, mingling with …

According to an article from Commander Bond.net, Die Another Day will be the last Bond film for the Pierce Brosnan. No reason was given, but the site claims confirmation from inside of Eon Productions.

Unreal Tournament 2004 is now available for Windows and MacOS X. The betas were posted just hours apart (the Mac world only lagged 6 hours behind the Windows world on this one).

Whitehouse.com, possibly the most often accidentally-reached porn site on the internet is going to be moving this year. Based on this article from Reuters (via Yahoo), the site's owner is concerned that his soon-to-be school-aged child will be the subject of ridicule at school if the family's business is …

The word on the street is that we should expect to see a boxed set of the special edition of the trilogy this fall. More news as it happens, but here's the article form the Chicago Sun Times.

I first met Burt Rutan in the 1970's at an EAA(Experimental Aircraft Association) convention in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. At the time, I was just a kid fascinated with planes, but my grandfather (building a BD-5 at the time) took me to see the planes and we got to have a …

According to an article from Wired, NASA has made a final decision to stop flights to the Hubble Space Telescope, despite complaints from amateur and professional astronomers alike. The big claim is that they can't rescue the crew of the shuttle if it goes up there to service the Hubble …

SupidSecurity is a web site that specializes in "Exposing fake security", or to be more succinct, finding security provisions that aren't and exposing them to the light of day. Today, they have an article from Reuters (via Yahoo) discussing an American who was fined $10,000 for crossing into Canada …

Microsoft announced a patch yesterday for a significant vulnerability that affects core security protocols on all recent Windows operating systems (Windows 2000- XP). If you have a Windows box, you should immediately run software update and get this fix.

For those who haven't heard of it (like me, until this morning), American Apparel is a textile company headquartered in Los Angeles. However, unlike many companies selling attire in this country, 100% of their wares (or is that wears) are made in the US--in fact, at their headquarters/factory in …

NASA has posted details on how the zoom sequence at the SuperBowl was created. I didn't watch it, so all I've seen was the footage on the NASA site, but it looks pretty cool. It took a number of satellites to do it, and not all of them are part …

In comments made at the PalmSource conference last week, representatives of the company said that they will no longer be supporting Macintosh synchronization in the OS. Instead, they indicated that third party products (such as Missing Sync from Mark/Space) will have to be used in the future. Marc/Space …

Well, according to this article from the International Herald Tribune (originally from the New York Times), General Clark is the latest to jump out of the presidential race.

A big "thank you" to Sally and Amanda for pointing me at OnTheIssues, a web site that consolidates positions from each of the issues they have been able to track down. The organization was originally chartered in 2000 for the 2000 presidential election with the goal of providing "non-partisan information …

Verisign, the company that has a government-granted monopoly to control the root-level domains for .com and .net, is looking at reviving its SiteFinder service, according to an article in the Washington Post. With claims like "Site Finder was not controversial with users, 84 percent of whom said they liked it …

An article in Wired by Lawrence Lessig makes some interesting points about price discrimination by drug companies. He argues that there are rational reasons for charging more money in the US and other developed countries than in Africa. The basic argument goes like this: we think it is bad to …