Title: Old Man’s War Author: John Scalzi Publisher: Tor Books Genre: Military Science Fiction Available From: Barnes & Noble, Amazon If my blogging has seemed a bit light and/or incoherent this week, it is entirely the fault of John Scalzi’s…
Sweet: Undercover – an anti-theft program designed to help catch Mac laptop thieves. It takes random screenshots, “calls home”, simulates system errors to confound thieves, and will even use iSight-equipped MacBooks to take snapshots of the villains.
In honor of the Superbowl, I was invited to play flag football yesterday afternoon by a few of the guys at my church. I answered with a hearty “Yes!” and grabbed my old football cleats, a pair of sturdy pants…
Presenting the Whiskey PC. Stylish, functional, and I bet it was a blast to make.
Those of you that aspire to “News Junkie” status have probably already discovered commmunity-driven news aggregation sites such as Digg and Fark. Well, another such site has been getting a lot of “virtual ink” recently and has been conducting a…
Once again, Sci Fi proves invaluable in envisioning the future: FAST G1 – facial protection for the U.S. Armed Forces. Helghast, anyone?
Austin Bay dropped the folowing comment in an entry pertaining to the Danish Cartoon Controversy: The Danish “Cartoon War†is an information warfare operation by conducted Islamist terror groups and at least two Middle Eastern dictatorships (Syria and Iran). Read…
I canceled my subscription to the Philadelphia Inquirer a little over a year ago in the wake of a vile, anti-Semitic editorial cartoon by Tony Auth but recent events may cause me to rethink my cancelation. It seems as though…
If you ever get sick of your S-10, why not hybridize it? Heh.
My homeward commute this evening featured a rare radio “treat”: partisan idiots on both sides of the political fence acting as ill-informed idiots. First up was NPR, which is hosting its semi-annual Beg-A-Thon. When I tuned in, an earnest producer…
