Yahoo! News – NEC Unveils Methanol-Fueled Laptop An interesting twist on providing power to portable electronics. Ever seen those tiny little perfume sample ‘vials’ they include in maganizes, etc? I can imagine running to 7-11 to pick up a bundle…

Consumers Spending More as Prices Fall: “Strip out volatile energy and food costs, as economists like to do, and the core PCE rose at just 1.2 percent over the past year, its lowest reading in almost two years. ‘This favorite…

Yahoo! News – 370,000 Sign Up for Anti-Telemarketing List Make that 370,001

CD Burners in Trouble Three comments… 1. Entry provided by BlogThis; yeah, I’m addicted. 2. Entry facilitated by PopUpBlocker, another new Google toolbar feature 3. RIAA has fully declared war on their customers. Given that I’ve bought all of my…

Google Toolbar Installed This blog entry has been GREATLY facilitated by clicking the “BlogThis” button on my spanking new Google 2.0 Beta toolbar. As usual, the Googlers have managed to cleanly expose and integrate their service offerings in an elegant…

From Iconocast/Trendsetters: A Cool Hunter at TBWA\Chiat\Day in New York writes, “You’re an Italian electricity company and need to set up a site, so why not register your name as the URL? Perhaps not a good idea if you are…

Microsoft to Apple: Bite me Wow. First MSFT buys Connectix, presumably for their peripherals business, but also nabbing Virtual PC in the deal… and now they halt development of IE for the Mac. This shifts the burden of compatibility testing…

Scientists identify true origin of AIDS virus Very interesting. I wonder what impact this will have on researching a cure. Interesting to note that HIV-1 may be relatively benign compared to what diseased chimps could produce.

MSFT enters RFID market I’ve been trending the pending pervasivness of GUIDs in our life, and this is one of the obvious next steps. MSFT has now entered the fray, which means there will be plenty of $ and tech…

Rosenthal goes free Read a great LA Times OpEd on this coming back from Yosemite. I understand the federal govt’s paronia w.r.t marijuana, but the way they prosecuted this case exposed the nastiness with which they are willing to bend…