Entries from November 2005

On this blog and in my USA Today column from last week, I wrote about how Sony was selling CDs [...]

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(Via Superfrankenstein.)

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There’s a terrific interview with my favorite author, Terry Pratchett, over at Science Fiction Weekly. I’m fascinated with steam engines, [...]

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I have an interesting story in The Roanoke Times about Andrew Knight — stop me if you’ve heard this — [...]

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From MSNBC.com: Intelligent design taught … as mythology University of Kansas course explores flip side of science controversy LAWRENCE, Kan. [...]

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My wife discovered the following while peeling sweet potatoes (or were they yams?) for Thanksgiving dinner: (Click for larger.)

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I don’t know if this goes anywhere, but I’ll toss it out. I was thinking about Internet advertising — banner [...]

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Amazon is not only doing what the title says — offering its customers a full refund, even on open CDs [...]

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Last month, the Government Accountability Office quietly released a finding — a detailed report (the GAO being a government body [...]

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Additions to my column on the Sony rootkit fiasco are in the USA Today section.

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More resources on the Sony rootkit nightmare.

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Take a guess: In the third quarter of 2005 — that’s three months — how many complaints about indecency do [...]

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If you’re planning to kill your wife and dump her body in the river, it’s probably best not to Google [...]

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Some more info about eePire.

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Via Wonkette:

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I’m a huge fan of citizen journalism. I think that incorporating what private citizens see and hear into the mainstream [...]

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So Sony’s content-protection system is backfiring in a big way. The company put software on its music CDs that hides [...]

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It’s all about priorities.

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“Higher Percentage of Americans Using Work Internet for Personal Use than Home Internet for Work According to the latest survey [...]

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This is in the comments of my entry about the danger posed to Kansas schoolkids by the state’s “science” curriculum, [...]

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