Entries from July 2007

Why are all these Fox News ads appearing here? Does Google think I want to look at Bill O’Reilly’s face? [...]

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So apparently Chief Justice John Roberts could officially be said to have epilepsy. That means he’ll need to weigh the [...]

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The NAACP has weighed in on Michael Vick: R.L. White, president of the Atlanta chapter of the National Association for [...]

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  Read the whole story at Snopes. Money quote: “I saw that his leg was completely open. It was ripped [...]

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If you’re a woman in the habit of giving away your magazines when you’re done reading them, especially to your [...]

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One of the annoying things about Windows Vista (and there are plenty) is that every now and then I’ll run [...]

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I got a press release the other day, “Congressional support builds for publicly funded research.” And it’s about time. The [...]

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I’ve been experimenting with and reading up on the idea of embedding news and info from other sources into a site [...]

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I was thinking about newspapers. I’ve written before that they are incredibly profitable businesses — in the top three or [...]

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I’m messing around with the blog’s database structure, so things might come and go for a bit. Not that you [...]

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Lorie Byrd is, well, sad. Writing on Examiner.com, she shares with us the tale of the site she’s created that will [...]

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If you ever want a laugh, you may know that Craigslist is a good place to go — just check [...]

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“Early iPhone owners are overwhelmingly happy with their devices, a survey out Friday says….” So begins a story in USA [...]

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When I was in junior high, my friend Andy Needleman had a joke of sorts. He would ring your doorbell, [...]

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I was thinking about overcrowded cities, and how a friend of mine, Ian Mackenzie, once commented that the only people [...]

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There’s nothing quite like asking strangers, “Is five squares of toilet paper enough?” But I got to do just that [...]

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…and other things I learned doing a story about keeping your car cool in the summer. My goal: Making the [...]

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“Unfortunately named authors.”

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Ladies and gents, meet Michael K. Brandow.   (Big hat tip to Gnomic!)   Update: The guy’s famous.   From [...]

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My story on combating mosquitoes with smarts and technology is on the front page of today’s Roanoke Times. I’m particularly [...]

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