Rough Drafts

The free Democracy Player from the Participatory Culture Foundation is a slick tool for finding and downloading Internet videos. Unlike, […]

I’m at risk of getting a reputation for pissing on Web 2.0, but here goes. The problem with “microformats,” which

Despite being a far inferior piece of hardware, the Nintendo DS continues to outsell the Sony PSP by a factor

Princeton Tec’s Scout headlamp ($22) has 2 white LEDs and three brightness settings: bright, very bright, and blinding. It’s easily

The Bake Shop Ghost, by Jacqueline K. Ogburn and Marjorie A. Priceman (Illustrator). Best new kid’s book I’ve seen this

Brain Age for the Nintendo DS ($20) is a videogame masquerading as a brain-training tool. The exercises include rapid-fire math,

Adding a computer to your home theater no longer means crossing your fingers and hoping for the best. In the

Last week, my haiku site, tinywords, appeared as the 30th-40th result on a search for haiku on Google. This week,

The essence of good conversation is give and take. The problem blog-based “conversations” is that the essential give and take

I think it’s time we all agreed that the “nofollow” tag has been a complete failure. For those of you