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Television Golf
I used to think you could never get enough golf. The slowest moving sport in America is relaxing to play, even more relaxing to watch on TV. I can’t count the number of Sundays I have fallen asleep watching it, confident that no matter what hole the players were on when I drifted off, they would still be playing when I woke up. MORE...
Data Mining the Government
The U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy announced the results of its first "Apps for America" contest this week and the winner is . . . less than overwhelming. MORE...
Google Voice: The Killer App
Leave it to Google to kill off the telephone. Herein and ever after, let’s call that device you hold in your hand a receptacle for voice communication. You may call it an iPhone, a Blackberry, a handset, or whatever you want. It’s toast. The era when that appliance was the gateway to America's vast network of telephone wires and wireless towers (and the power to charge for that access) is coming to an end. MORE...
Perspective Is Everything
At the Medill Street block party last month, one of the mothers innocently asked my wife why her husband was lying belly down in the middle of the street shooting the parade of children with his video camcorder. “Perspective is everything,” she replied.
It is, alas, oh so true -–– especially when it comes to the delicate art of making home movies. MORE...
Timewaster.com
The accelerating pace of the depression seems to have spurred an up-tick in our desire to share every detail of our experience in it. Now no less a personage than Bruce Sterling has called our bluff, deeming the explosion of Twitter tweets and Facebook posts examples of the poverty of our souls. MORE...
What Do You Do With 250 Useless TVs?
February 17 is D-day for TV, the day your signal goes dark if you haven't prepared for the new digital television era. Do you have that new widescreen TV? What did you do with your old one? MORE...
The Sunshine Man
Brandon Leavitt has been trying to harness the sun's power since 1976. He's been up, down and back up again. MORE...
Wii Me!
My son Noah is getting to the age when he will begin playing video games. So in the interests of male bonding I took him down to the local Best Buy to pick up the new Nintendo Wii MORE...
Smart Cars
Soon there will be three smart cars for sale in America: The Pure, The Passion and The Cabriolet –– a French term meaning beat the crap out of Volkswagen. MORE...
Bullshit at Dawn
Hearing the results of the Cubs game from Jay Mariotti on your cellphone is like programming Smash Mouth as your ringtone or putting "Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here" on your welcome mat MORE...
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