Technology:
Vote early: Colorado is one of the fifteen states to offer early voting and yesterday I took advantage. Vote often: Thanks to fourteen proposed state-wide constitutional amendments and voter referendums, which sit in addition to numerous local referendums, Colorado also...
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Posted on November 2, 2006 9:36 AM • 8 Comments
Via recent new commenter Inky Circus, a post listing how many ways the Diebold voting machine is an utter disaster. Here's the soft-underbelly problem with the Diebold's problems: we have a very un-tech-savvy society (and that's putting it mildly). The...
Posted on September 15, 2006 6:03 PM • 7 Comments
Q1. As described in this story (and countless others), the U.S. government, in the name of anti-terrorism intelligence gathering, wants access to traveler data from private airlines. This desire is obviously extends throughout the economic universe, wherever data is collected...
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Posted on August 28, 2006 12:00 PM • 0 Comments
Ego surfing is as old as search engines, but the release of all that AOL data takes it up a notch. [If you don't know what I'm talking about, a few days ago AOL released the searches of over a...
Posted on August 14, 2006 6:59 PM • 2 Comments
Great article out of the Colorado Spring Gazette back in mid-June. I had to check over and over to make sure it wasn't published on 4/1. Upshot is, a roughage farmer has installed a bunch of sonic cannons that supposedly...
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Posted on August 3, 2006 3:16 PM • 1 Comments
I thought I was going to be able to let this one slide, but after yet another dining-out conversation about it today it seems it won't go away. I refer to the Science Times of this past Tuesday and William...
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Posted on July 3, 2006 12:37 AM • 4 Comments
A month ago I mentioned the Domenici-Bingaman white paper on the regulation of greenhouse gasses. Then I promptly set the paper aside and eventually missed the deadline for comment. Today the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will hold a...
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Posted on April 4, 2006 8:00 AM • 1 Comments
I thought this weekend's front page NY Times article on the ignorance of technology users was also part of a phony, mocked-up newspaper article, so dumb was the premise. But no, it was sadly real. Here's what happened:...
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Posted on March 6, 2006 1:39 PM • 4 Comments
This could be the coolest thing ever: http://www.fboweb.com/antest/ge/intro.aspx Followed by this: http://www.blogwise.com/blogmaps (or just click here if you already have google earth installed)...
Posted on March 2, 2006 12:48 PM • 0 Comments
Kevin Vranes has a phud in Physical Ocean- ography and Cli- matology. He now studies sci- ence policy and politics at the CSTPR. (More in the about.)
