My alma mater, Lehigh University, has been creeping away from its engineering roots for years, thanks largely to the efforts of C. Montgomery BurnsGregory Farrington, the evilformer University president. Apparently, Lehigh’s board of trustees has named a successor: Alice P.…
Sony held a pre-E3 press conference yesterday and announced pricing, release date and features for the PlayStation 3: initally, two models will be sold – one with a 20GB hard drive for $499 and one with a 40GB60GB hard drive…
Perhaps I’ve just been out of it today, but has anyone else felt like today was just “slow”? Perhaps it’s that everyone is looking in anticipation towards E3 and the unveiling of the Wii, PS-3, etc. and Apple’s purported unveiling…
A word to the wise: Mentholated lip balm, while soothing for sore, chapped lips, makes a very poor laundry ingredient, often leading to unsightly wax marks adorning previously-thought clean garments. The addition of lip balm to your regular laundry cycle…
In the wake of the Stephen Colbert Whitehouse Correspondents dinner kerfuffle, I was cruising the Internet[s] looking for prior precedent for comedians excoriating a sitting president to his face when I stumbled across a draft version of Al Franken’s routine…
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting piece (complete with a nice roundup of clips from some misbehaving films) on the dodgy relationship Hollywood-produced movies have with technology in general and the Internet in particular. The WSJ blames several factors…
As is generally the case when a cabal of old guard intelligence agents and diplomats attempt to execute a bloodless coup against a sitting president, there are likely to be a series of connections between their Democrat-donating carcasses. Fortunately, a…
It’s official: Nintendo has named their next-generation console (formerly known as the “Revolution”) the Nintendo Wii – prounounced “We”. Good decision guys. That certainly sounds forward-looking and tough. “Hey Jim, wanna come over and play my new Weeee? I just…
Amazon will occasionally send me email with recommendations for me to check out. Apparently, I have been confusing the heck out of their suggestions system, as the above email is the result. Yes, they simultaneously recommended War Against the Weak:…
White House sources are reporting that Fox News anchor/syndicated radio host Tony Snow is in the final stages of talks to become the new Press Secretary for the Bush Administration. President Bush has missed a real opportunity here to practice…
