Nerve Endings Firing Away

The sun isn't setting on tinkerers; their desire to crack things open intensifies when faced with something that's closed by design. The challenge is part of the appeal. Likewise for the iPad. If you want to hack it, it can be done.

That's how you deal with bigots with hateful signs

We can sit here in our geeky little dorkosphere arguing about it all day, but as much as Apple clearly enjoys our participation, the people Jobs wants to sell this to don't read our rants.

RT @mattyglesias: Obama's evisceration of the House GOP: so naturally this was expected

NASA's Wall-E

The bet is roughly that the future of computing:

has a UI model based on direct manipulation of data objects
completely hides the filesystem from the user
favors ease of use and reduction of complexity over absolute flexibility
favors benefit to the end-user rather than the developer or other vendors
lives atop built-to-specific-purpose native applications and universally available web apps

California wants to register as historical resources the space junk (high-tech and otherwise) left behind by the Apollo 11 crew.

AT 10.23 am on 30 January, more than 300 activists in the UK, Canada, Australia and the US will take part in a mass homeopathic "overdose". Sceptics will publicly swallow an entire bottle of homeopathic pills to demonstrate to the public that homeopathic remedies, the product of a scientifically unfounded 18th-century ritual, are simply sugar pills.

Shouldn't the dude be on Twitter? Retweeters can be wiretapped RT @Retributions: Look who's worried about climate change!

with a camera, I might add. How to approach people yet not lose spontaneity.

"Chris Matthews didn't forget Barack Obama was black. Chris Matthews forgot that Chris Matthews was white."

I don't agree with Anil's premise but interesting discussion in the comments -