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Archives for November 2009

Power To The People

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Monday, November 30, 2009

Final Edition: Twilight of the American newspaper

Newspapers have become a dying breed. I grew up to the news of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Richard Rodriguez became a reader of the San Francisco Chronicle in high school. How will newspapers end up?We will end up with one and a half cities in America—Washington, D.C., and American Idol. We... Read More »
Thursday, November 19, 2009

Is it ATT or the iPhone?

Since the iPhone’s launch in mid-2007, AT&T has been roundly criticized for poor network performance, both with dropped calls, and slow data speeds. Is it AT&T’s fault? Or, are network problems caused by the iPhone? Colin Gibbs on GigaOm:AT&T isn’t the only operator whose... Read More »

Flames from a Mac user

I received an email message today from a member of the Prescott Mac User’s Group.The message:If it wasn’t for that ugly ad of the woman on your home page I would do RSS, and I would recommend your site to my PMUG group. I am the editor of our blog. As it is, the ad is a real turn off, appealing... Read More »
Tuesday, November 17, 2009

The bank has a problem

AP report on Obama’s China trip and the resulting power shift.The Chinese government is America’s biggest foreign creditor, with $800 billion of federal U.S. debt that gives it extraordinary power in the relationship.How does it give China extraordinary power? There’s an old saying... Read More »
Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Vatican looks to heavens for signs of alien life

The Vatican is bringing in experts “to study the possibility of extraterrestrial alien life and its implications for the Catholic Church.” Jose Gabriel Funes, astronomer and director of the Vatican Observatory:The questions of life’s origins and of whether life exists elsewhere in... Read More »
Tuesday, November 3, 2009

50 Ugliest Cars of the Past 50 Years

Interesting and colorful journey through photos of the 50 ugliest cars since 1959 by Damien Joseph in BusinessWeek. Sure, there’s Pinto and Vega and Gremlin. Remember the Lightburn Zeta? How about the Wartburg 353? There’s a Ford Mustang on the list, too. The Yugo? Sure.The Yugo gets rapped... Read More »

The iPhone is the worst phone in the world (or, not so much)

Yet another example of an illiterate opinion posing as an entertainment-cum-journalism sorta review, this time from Flora Graham of CNET UK’s Expert Tech Reviews. The iPhone is great and everyone loves it. What’s the problem?But as an actual call-making phone, it’s rubbish, and we... Read More »