Month: November 2006

  • So much for "unanimous" – an inconvenient truth

    Al Gore’s new movie on global warming, “An Inconvenient Truth,” opens with scenes from Hurricane Katrina slamming into New Orleans. The former vice president says unequivocally that because of global warming, it is all but certain that future hurricanes will be more violent and destructive than those in the past. … With the official start…

  • Another Putin critic assasinated by radiation

    As if you needed more proof that Russia has reverted to a dictatorship, the Brits have found conclusive evidence that yet another Putin critic has been assassinated by radiation. Security sources said MI5 believes the Russian intelligence services assassinated Mr Litvinenko. Britain made a formal request to Moscow for help in the murder investigation. But…

  • Put your thoughts on a Starbucks coffee cup!

    Starbucks has a “The Way I See It” program that accepts submissions from customers and celebrities to be printed on their coffee cups. You can comment on the random thoughts you found on one of their cups, or submit your own. Most of the submissions are predictably boring. Wouldn’t it be great to see some…

  • The console market

    According to market research firm iSuppli, the newly released PS3 game console costs Sony $241-$400 for each console sold. This is not the cost of the system – this is the net loss to the company after subtracting the price of each console from the cost of the components. Game console makers like Sony and…

  • Ray Kurzweil on C-SPAN

    There is an excellent three-hour interview with technologist and futurist Ray Kurzweil available on C-SPAN. Watch now. This rare three-hour long interview allowed him to discuss his ideas in depth and take calls from the public. The show profiles his many inventions (starting with a videotape of his 1965 appearance at age 17 on “I’ve…

  • Richard Dawkins has some advice

    Richard Dawkins offers some advice for students of Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University, which has an exibit of dinosaur bones that are “3,000 years old.” Watch the video here. More on his site.