Far back, in the mists of ancient time, there existed a technology for sharing one’s thoughts, musings, memes, and other nonsense. You may have heard of it, if you’re over 40. The web log, or blog. The [more...]
Here’s another reason to hate those ad-laden web pages: they’ve slowed the web to a crawl. These days, most ads on a page are served from different sources than the content of the page. This means that one [more...]
Now, we all know that George W. Bush is a spectacularly uninformed person — he doesn’t read the papers or watch the news, he only seems to know what he is told. So, it’s hardly surprising that, as [more...]
How did I miss this? The delightful actor Eddie Albert died on Friday. I had no idea of his commitment to ecological and humanitarian issues until I read his obituary; in fact: Albert, who in 1963 served as special [more...]
