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Barack Obama: GEEK!

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:55:09 -0500

Yes, I know I said I'd get off the Barack-Obama-kickass-election-victory quasi-obsession already. In fact, I was just about to bang out a postscript to the last week's headrush when a passel of Obama-related geekery dropped into my lap, demanding to be recognized...

Apple's iPhone App Store - Five days later

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:05:26 -0400

As millions of geeks know already, Apple unveiled its new iPhone 2.0 software and App Store last Friday. By all accounts both efforts were big successes, with ten million copies of third-party software snapped up for iPhones and iPod Touches already.

Like any good geek, I joined the herd and have been spending the last few days trying (and buying) various stuff. And like any good geek, now I get to blog my impressions of said software:

Microsoft's bionic comedienne

Sun, 31 Dec 2006 13:44:38 -0500

My brother directed me to Ms. Dewey the other night, a new search engine cooked up by the geeks up at Microsoft.

What makes Ms. Dewey different from the myriad other search engines (past and present) is that she's essentially a stand-up comedienne wrapped around Google. She does a short quip (with accompanying live-motion video) before presenting the results.

An end-run for SCIENCE!

Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:41:07 -0500

Now that's clever...

For those of you who pay attention to those little headline bullets on this site's home page, you might have remembered this tidbit from a few weeks back:

Let's laugh at the phone-ies!

Fri, 26 May 2006 15:53:35 -0400

Have you heard the joke about Hands Off the Internet yet?

No? Listen up, this is a good one...

Iran by the numbers

Thu, 13 Apr 2006 14:54:05 -0400

I suppose it's inevitable -- since President Bush's ratings have been sinking faster than the Titanic (capped off with veep Cheney getting booed by a stadium full of critics this week), it's time to beat the war drums and rally some support for El Presidente.

Life with "Pappa Balmer"

Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:13:53 -0500

Fortune magazine has a short interview with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. This quick exchange caught my eye:

Of mixed minds

Tue, 14 Feb 2006 18:51:36 -0500

Following the December ruling that struck down the teaching of "intelligent design" in Dover, PA, the Ohio Board of Education did an about-face and eliminated a biology lesson plan advocating students seek out evidence for and against evolution.

Bush was wrong on Katrina, too

Tue, 30 Aug 2005 14:42:25 -0400

As the news on the calamity known as hurricane Katrina comes in, let's see how the Bush Administration ties into it...

The Gospel of Kung Fu Monkey

Tue, 09 Aug 2005 10:28:50 -0400

Sometimes you read something that just makes your jaw drop and say "day-am" in appreciation of the author's verbal kung fu.