Rough Drafts

According to attorney Scott Bursor, phone companies’ practice of “locking” phones so they can’t be used with any other carrier is anticompetitive. He’s not the only one who’s angry about locked phones. But don’t just sit there — Schuyler Erle tells you how to do something about it.

Peter Rojas’ new gadgets weblog looks almost exactly like his old one.

Matchstick rockets are cheap, easy to make, and your mom would definitely not approve.

It baffles me why there is such a rush to electronic, touchscreen-based voting machines, when their security risks are so clearly documented. The fact is, the most reliable, secure, and user-friendly voting technology is a simple optical scanner system. It’s what I used to vote this morning in San M

I stopped by the new Apple Store in San Francisco yesterday afternoon, its opening day. Total madness: The place was packed with people, every single product on display had someone playing with it, plus two or three people waiting in line to take a look, and lots of folks were just milling around. S

The legions of Cheetos-eating Linux geeks won’t be too happy when they see this review of the Ingineo Eyetop.

I’ll be appearing on CNN Live this coming Saturday, 2/28, at around 4:30pm Eastern / 1:30pm Pacific. Tune in and check out some of the coolest new portable gadgets from the Mobile PC labs: a Microsoft SPOT watch, a couple of cutting-edge handhelds, and a superlight Sony Vaio, and more. Plus yours tr

I don’t know why I find this so fascinating, but I do. This page shows the results of running grep (a Unix search function) on the Windows 2000 source code. It’s like peeking inside the sausage factory: you get to see the workers chopping meat, spitting, swearing, mixing bugs into the meal, and not

This is handy: Teleflip lets you send email to any SMS-enabled mobile phone without knowing anything but the phone number: (your number here)@teleflip.com. The alternative is to first figure out the phone’s email address.

The folks at Concord Camera won’t be too happy when they see this review of the Concord EyeQ Go Wireless.

What business is it of the state how consenting adults choose to pair off, share expenses, and eventually stop having sex with each other?

Siva Vaidhyanathan is a Woody Guthrie fan.