Dylan Tweney

So Wikipedia is adding nofollow tags to all its links? Fine, then. We’ll all just add nofollow tags to all of our links that point to Wikipedia. (And yes, there’s a WordPress plugin.)

Quick: what’s the difference between the average gadget blog and PR Newswire? There’s more hype on the gadget blog. Ex-Gizmodo editor Joel Johnson is tired of it.

“I really don’t know whether we’ll be printing the Times in five years, and you know what? I don’t care either.” NYT publisher Arthur Sulzberger on the Times’ Internet plans. (via Nicholas Carr)

Interesting article by Jeffrey Toobin in the New Yorker on Google’s massive book-scanning project: Google’s Moon Shot

Clara came home from the library yesterday with a copy of The Brain, by Seymour Simon. Last night she and I sat on the couch as she flipped through the book, showing me what the brain looks like dissected, in MRI, in models. I pointed out different parts of the brain. Karen quizzed her on […]

363 tons of $100 bills were flown to Iraq under Paul Bremer’s watch. That’s $12 billion in cash. And he has no idea where it went: When Will Media Deeply Probe U.S. Corruption in Iraq? – Yahoo! News

Frank Luntz has some excellent advice for the environmental movement – seriously: GOP strategist Frank Luntz argues enviros are failing — and they’re mean to boot

Richard Branson has set up a $25 million prize for the first person who can come up with a workable way of removing a billion tons of CO2 from the atmosphere every year. It’s a clever idea, offering a big prize as an incentive to spur innovative research. Big purses like this (or the X-Prize, […]

Doing some research into the global PC industry, I discovered that 82.6% of notebooks are made by Taiwanese companies. By 2010, it will be 92.5%, according to a mid-2006 press release from iSuppli. These Taiwanese companies, known as original design manufacturers, don’t just build notebooks–they des

Julie Amero is the Connecticut teacher facing a possible 40 year prison sentence because the PC in her classroom got hit by a porn popup storm. This appears to be her site: Julie Amero

Apple: “In 2006, under 2 billion DRM-protected songs were sold worldwide by online stores, while over 20 billion songs were sold completely DRM-free and unprotected on CDs by the music companies themselves.” Apple – Thoughts on Music

Charlie Brooker: “The only way to have fun with a Mac is to poke its insufferable owner in the eye.” Guardian Unlimited | Comment is free | I hate Macs (reminds me of a review I once wrote of Picasa)