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So my dear friend Roger Carasso has started his own blog. Maybe this means he’ll have less time to post comments here? I think of all the people I have ever talked to, his...

So I was reminded by someone to check out the earlier failed electric scooter Segway predecessors, especially Clive Sinclair’s C5. I actually saw one of these joyless little machines once, buzzing along the road...

So according to Cringely, SBC are now trying to extract money from websites that use active buttons to refresh content. I kid you not, they claim SBC now possesses a patent that gives them...

So apparently the stuff I used to do (multimedia) has officially become creaky enough to be catalogued in museums. Apparently, this is a _vital_ pre-broadband era where some of the first widely available ideas...

So I read this, and I wrote this, and someone responded with this, so I wrote this: this is an account of the Future History sub-genre only. So Brian Aldiss’s Galaxies Like Grains of...

Some people take this Google thing altogether too seriously.

Thanks to Jay for this one… Jerry Springer is considering running for election as a Senator from Ohio. I know Lisa will be pleased.

So apparently Ganesh devotees keep dumping elephants as votive offerings at the door of this temple in India, which has already tried to ban the practice but lost a court battle. So now the...

These clever boffins in Japan have done a detailed analysis of the raw material inputs required to make a typical memory chip. It’s pretty ugly stuff. RAM chips’ eco footprints are horrendously large and...

David sent me this. Its from an ABC affiliate so I trust it a little, but then they GO AND USE ALL CAPS. Anyway, apparently this guy helped the US Army deploy Anthrax bioweapons...