Category: General

Polls opened at 0600 EST, and I cast my vote at 0830. Turn-out in Putnam County appears a lot higher than usual. The Big Sister asked Deena, Mom, when are you g...

Tomorrow, as in 2000, a bunch of people will get their knickers in a twist over not having certain results from the exit polls. These impatient fools will whine...

Apple was first to market the personal digital assistant, the Newton in 1993, and was somewhat ahead of its time. After Palm shipped one at the right size and p...

Oracle has come up with a client package that does not involve 700MB of unnecessary crap in order to install 150MB of redundant crap. They call this the Oracle ...

For those of you with available SBC DSL, the price is right: $19.95. Effective Monday, Nov. 1, SBC Yahoo! DSL will be available for $19.95 a month for new DSL r...

The girls were playing with some shells the other day, and the Big Sister tells the Little Sister, Here, talk to Nemo. The Little Sister holds the shell up to h...

I started reading When Jesus Became God the other day. It strikes me as the story begins that, while the details differ, people change very little over time. We...

Ron Suskind wrote, in The New York Times Magazine, a disturbing examination of President Bush’s faith. One of the many Mr. Suskind spoke with was Jim Wall...

Larry Staton pointed out City Data. It collects some interesting data that is otherwise dispersed on the web, including ZIP codes, census data, building starts,...

Verizon says, (FYI: 30 Mbps may be faster than the normal Internet can handle on one connection or PC. Yes – it’s that fast!) Uh oh, I fear for that...

SBC today announced a DSL and WiFi access bundle. If you purchase the SBC Yahoo! DSL product, you can bundle in FreedomLink for only $1.99 per month. Glenn Flei...

since you’ve been using A9.com recently, virtually everything at Amazon.com is automatically an additional Ï€/2% (1.57%) off for you. Collecting this disc...

Guideposts, well-known as an advocate of God-less Communism and other un-American activities, has a story this month called “The Heart of Delafield,”...

Perhaps the 9/11 Commission should have hired Valdis Krebs before making its recommendation on how to refine the nomenklatura. Its difficult to see how the so-c...

Let us see if Zimran‘s theory that media owners are rational actors who will not let their political interests harm their economic interests, and thus tha...

I would like a full-text searchable index of Dilbert and other graphical arts.

The market is a more accurate survey of preferences.

David Sucher asks for a fisking of Tierney‘s paean in the New York Times magazine. That’s so crude. I think of three things when that word is used: ...

Google, here is where you’ll find the unusable website of the Schoolhouse Theater in Croton Falls, New York.

The Mortgages weblog notes a fiscally irresponsible proposal by the current administration to permit Federal insurance of mortgages granted with no money down. ...