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• Wheeling and Dealing for raw Beltway Power
  Glenn Greenwald calls our attention to the apparent slimeball tactics of U.S. politician Steny Hoyer, who pays lip service to opposing immunity for the lawbreaking US Telecoms Companies who willingly gave the U.S. government unlimited access to private...
• What's wrong with the web, Part 43
  This is a cleaned-up version of what I sent to a major Canadian corporation's web team after trying to use their site. --------------------...
• Quoted Without Comment
  "The line between investigating and persecuting is a very fine one, and the junior senator from Wisconsin has stepped over it repeatedly.... We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that...
• iPhone catching up to OpenMoko
  People who know I'm involved with Openmoko ask me how the new iPhone will affect the Openmoko project. But as we've seen, the reverse is already happening. Openmoko pioneered having a completely-accessibl...
• Expelled: No Intelligence Found
  The April 24 issue of Epoch Times' Canadian Edition carried an article "Ben Stein challenges Darwin" which purports to be a review of Ben Stein's new documentary Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, but it's more like a whitewash than an actual...

• Re: "Red Lights Will Never Be The Same", Part 1
  Right, I wasn't clear enough there; the driver's airbag is in the steering column. It was a cold day so I had the windows up, there is thus a strong chance of door-frame, window or other misalignment caused by the explosive bag deployment (my ears hurt...
• Re: "Red Lights Will Never Be The Same", Part 1
  Glad you are ok, Ian. GMs, I think, are more disposable than other cars. My (Toyota)'s airbag is in the steering wheel and just above the glove compartment. Both can be replaced cheaply. Talk to your transportation department about having longer yell...
• Re: Ian's Top Ten Today, #1
  That Waco article was interesting. I'd never seen the correlation between the jingoism in our response to McVeigh and to 9/11. The patent article is a bit preposterous. Things like email and Huffman codes were created out of taxpayer-funded research p...