Dylan Tweney

A new pay-per-message model, currently under consideration by AOL and Yahoo, is meant to avert problems stemming from the flood of spam (junk e-mail) by requiring companies to pay for certified e-mail deliveries, in the same way they pay for certified snail mailings. There’s only one problem: No one

Pliers work very well for opening beer bottles. Just in case.

I’ll be covering/moblogging O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology conference in San Diego next week, for Wired News. If you’ll be at the conference, drop me a line and let me know how to get in touch with you during the show. My email address is on my contact page. UPDATE 3/6: You’ll find my blog entries o

From our seats at the very top of the balcony the dancers, in their brightly-colored pants and tank tops, looked as small and unreal as fairies. “Can I pick them up?” Clara whispered to me. We went to see the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater perform in Berkeley last night. It was an amazing dance

One thing Apple does truly brilliantly is the cardboard boxes its products come in. Microsoft, not so much. (parody video)

Career columnist Penelope Trunk has a great idea in her column this week: The caffeine nap. Drink a cup of coffee, then immediately take a short 15-minute nap. By the time you’re done napping, the caffeine is kicking in and you can wake up quickly, alert and refreshed.

Aerogel is the world’s lightest solid — and also the most porous. I’ve got a story on Wired News this morning that explains all about this really cool material, how it was used in NASA/JPL’s recent Stardust mission, and how some companies are commercializing the stuff. This story was really fun to w

If you wanted to catch a few particles of comet dust speeding through the vacuum of space at 6 kilometers per second — without damaging or destroying those particles — how would you do it? Faced with exactly this problem, scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory focused on aerogel — an extremely

Tom Lantos is my congressman, and it’s principles like this that keep me voting for him every single time he comes up for re-election: Congressman quizzes Net companies on shame | CNET News.com

Anyone else have problems with T-Mobile Hotspots in Starbucks bumping them off the network and reconnecting every 15-20 minutes? It’s really annoying.

Locke blogged my story. I blogged his blog of my story. Then he blogged my blog of his blog of my story. Now, I’m blogging his blog of my blog of his blog of my story. Ain’t trackback fun? Krugle Blog » instant replay or infinite recursion?

I’ve got not one, but two stories about search engines appearing today. Here Comes a Google for Coders, on Wired News, talks about a startup search engine called Krugle, which will let programmers find source code and documentation online. Krugle debuted last week at Demo. My story adds some details