Author: Will Cox

In the Constitution’s Commerce clause, the Congress is granted the power To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with...

This raised quite a few interesting consumer technology questions. Ordinarily, for example, one needs a credit card (and good credit) to secure a cell phone. &#...

“Look Who’s Talking,” by Howard Rheingold (Wired, vol. 7, no. 01, January 1999), is a very interesting piece on the response of the Amish to t...

When I was reading 1901, I was struck by the frequent use of “indeed.” It was anachronistic. Indeed, the word sticks out like a sore thumb in contem...

Bill Bumgarner wrote Since giving away my iPod Shuffle to my wife a few weeks ago, I have had need of a portable storage device. Never before, but now I do. Go ...

Where I’ve lived has informed what I like in a place. Providence Forge, Virginia Loveland, Ohio Monterey, Virginia Richmond, Virginia Annapolis, Maryland ...

The last time we went car shopping, the most annoying use of the option package was Ford‘s. Certain colors were only available with the V8 and towing pack...

I have a simple test for determining the quality of a vendor. Of course, I have no budget, and few listen to me, so my test does not see much use. But if you wo...

My brother gave us a bottle of Château Morrisette‘s Sweet Mountain Laurel for Christmas. I like this: it tastes of Concord grapes. A unique and refreshin...

A commentator on NPR tells us what word we should use instead of jihad.

Have you noticed that realtor websites do not provide you with the most important piece of information about a property, the location? This is the hook to get t...

Somewhere in Chicago, there’s a big wirelessed mall. More than 18,000 daily visitors who frequent the restaurants, food court, train station, retail store...

Scanning a large disk for virii takes a lot of time and resources, often in an impolite manner. Here’s a hypothetical question that the supergeniuses at t...

Last Friday, Rick pointed me to a paper estimating the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow. This is a very important question, and deserves respectful consi...

The House passed H.R. 418, the “REAL ID Act of 2005,” today, the thought being that if there’s no support for a national identification card, ...

Larry Felton Johnson has accepted the responsibility for pedestrian safety in East Atlanta. But I finally acknowledged what I’ve known for a long time, th...

You mean that there are other languages with other alphabets? And some of those look like ours? The horror! Homographs, or letters which look alike but arenR...

Here’s one. I’m certain you, Gentle Reader, can identify many another. Microsoft Outlook permits the recipient to edit mails received. This is easil...

maps.google.com is neat. I’ve got one big complaint, and then I’ll shut up. The URI in the address bar doesn’t change. Thanks for the “l...