Rough Drafts

Most shocking thing I learned last weekend: A huge Antarctic ice shelf disintegrated over a 35-day period in 2002, much […]

What I think of as the Microsoft approach to product development is to cram as many features as possible into

What does your computer do when it’s asleep? Well, if you’re the giving type, it might be searching for intelligent

One of the first magazines I can remember subscribing to (apart from Cricket and Ranger Rick) was Creative Computing. I

bali_water_temple_statue, uploaded by crderivative. Listened this week to an amazing talk by anthropologist Stephen Lansing‘s talk on Bali at the

Not exactly for dummies, actually, but for beginners: Next week I’ll be hosting a webcast on how to select and

Here’s a 5-minute video showing what happens when a laptop battery ignites: It sets off a chain reaction, where successive

This is kind of cool: TextMarks is a service that lets you create your own custom SMS quick-response codes. People

Not because of my bluegrass banjo-pickin’ talent, but because I’ve just been selected to go take part in The Climate

This morning the poll workers in San Mateo offered me a choice of voting on a traditional paper ballot, or