Tech Talk: Just give me the prize
On Oct. 4, 2004, test pilot Brian Binnie piloted the Burt Ratan designed, Scaled Composites built spaceplane SpaceShipOne to an altitude of 70 miles to win the first Ansari X-Prize…
Twelve things you didn’t get for Christmas
Sometimes, Christmas gifts can be a little predictable, and for the technophile, boring as well. It doesn’t have to be that way, though. There’s a whole world of amazing technology…
2012 review: Not half bad
That is, about half good I went into the theater expecting 2012, starring Jon Cusack and Amanda Peet, to be awful in that colossal sort of way reserved for truly…
Now it’s your turn
This quarter, I have been writing about ways to make the Internet more useful than it sometimes appears to be. Aside from all of the great and informative sites and…
Reading the e-book way
With all the talk about e-books in the media, you would think that print reading is about to go extinct. A quick review of the e-book world, however, shows an…
Listening to great literature
Sub: If you can’t read it, listen to it. I spend about two-and-a-half hours in my car everyday as I drive from home to work to school to home again,…