Not for nothing, but experts who do side-by-side comparisons — here, here, and here [UPDATE: and here] — seem to think that Android is the way to go. Of course, it depends on what one uses their smartphone for. But the general consensus is that Android wins out because it is more open. In other words, with iPhones, you get … Read More
My Girlfriend Was Kicking Butt On TV This Morning
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Ominous Blog Post
LATEST UPDATE: She's fine. Abby's Blog — Entry dated Wednesday, June 9, 2010: The wind is beginning to pick up. It is back up to 20 knots and I am expecting that by midnight tonight I could have 35-50 knots with gusts to 60 so I am off to sleep before it really picks up. That's the end of the … Read More
Should Taxpayers Pay For The Oil Spill?
Republican leaders think so. This is tremendously stupid politics. The public — particularly Republicans — are weary of taxpayer bailouts already. Now we want more? Oh, sure — count on Republicans to say, "Well, we bailed out the banks. So why not BP?" But that argument falls flat. The bailout of the banks was necessary to stem the economic downflow. … Read More
It’s A Small World After All
Alex and Donna Voutsinas are like many couples; they met at work, fell in love and got engaged. Days before their wedding, the couple was looking at old family photos when Donna came across a picture of herself as a child on vacation at Disney and showed it to her fiancé. But Alex was more interested in the man … Read More
Racism = Ignorance: A Case Study
As you may know, many on the right are upset that a mosque is being built within a couple of blocks of Ground Zero in downtown Manhattan. The thinking goes that Islamic terrorists were responsible for 9/11, therefore all of the religion of Islam is bad and evil, therefore mosques are evil. With such stupid logic as that, it's not … Read More
Another Oil Spill In The Gulf
Lovely: As if there wasn't enough oil pouring into the Gulf of Mexico, satellite images have revealed a 10-mile-long slick from another drilling rig, which apparently began leaking days after the Deepwater Horizon disaster began. Citing an environmental group and federal documents, the Mobile, Ala., Press- Register reports that the smaller leak, from the Ocean Saratoga platform, apparently began around … Read More
Google on Caffeine
Not that you will have noticed, but Google totally revamped the way it indexes the web. The relatively geek-free explanation of the new indexing system (called Caffeine) is here. What does it mean? It means web content gets into Google quicker, which means it gets to you quicker. Or, put another way, better searches.
Scary Election of the Day
Today is primary day in a lot of states. I'm not following it. I can tell you (and so can everybody else) that anti-incumbancy fever is high, which means that a lot of people in office might get thrown out. Doesn't look like the nation will swing all the way to the teabaggers, but on the whole, it doesn't look … Read More
Did Sarah Buy Two Luxury Items?
Sarah's Newsweek cover (November 2009): Sarah at the Belmont Stakes last Sunday:
Seconds Before He Proposes To Her, His Girlfriend Gets Struck by Lightning
If this wasn't so sad, it would be funny: A young Tennessee woman was struck and killed by lightning on one of her favorite North Carolina mountain trails only moments before her boyfriend was about to propose to her, the Asheville Citizen-Times reports. Richard Butler, 30, said he and Bethany Lott, 25, both from Knoxville, Tenn., had ignored the rain … Read More
Religious Nutjobs Of The Day
From Newsweek, presented without comment: A growing conversation among Christian fundamentalists asks the question that may have been inevitable: is the oil spill in the gulf a sign of the coming apocalypse? About 60 million white evangelicals live in America, and about one third of them believe that the world will end in their lifetime, according to the Pew Research … Read More