Dylan Tweney

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)

Banjo fan? Ukulele fan? You really owe it to yourself to click here: Midnight Ukulele Disco: Video of Il m’a vu nue performed by Kurt Hoffman and Meg Reichardt (thanks India)