My son and his friend, Julio, spend most of their time huddled together, whispering about boobs or XBox or the latest crisis at school. They are good boys, but my son will occasionally have a brain fart.

Here is a list of the world’s most ridiculous laws… no wonder lawyers earn so much!

On Wednesday at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, retired Ford employee Rick Byrnes guided the Hydrogen Fusion 999 to a speed of 207.297 mph. That speed establishes a benchmark for fuel cell powered vehicles based (however loosely) on a production body s

Blog Action Day is just one vehicle for that change, but it is a powerful concept: thousands of bloggers unite, for just one day, to talk about one issue. Will that change the world, just one day? Not immediately, but it in effect unites the blogging comm

Like many companies, Cingular has a little thing in their contracts saying that if you use their service, you void your right to a class action lawsuit and instead have to go through “mandatory binding arbitration,” which is basically an extra-judicial co

Not having most of these tools is like having half a Mac.

Dominos now accepting pizza orders via SMS

Remember the good old days when to change a screen resolution or driver, you had to edit xorg.conf or reconfigure X.org? Those fine times are now over, or they will be, with the release of Ubuntu 7.10. As of an update from a few days ago, users are now ab

A Chinese couple tried to name their baby “@”, claiming the character used in e-mail addresses echoed their love for the child.

“You were obstructing the sidewalk!” and “I’m sick of this s***!” then he said, “Here’s your 15 minutes of fame buddy!” I looked back to see his name plate and he said in a mean condescending tone, “Yea, that’s ‘Sergeant Riddle’ get it right!” He then put

VoIP gets all the headlines, but it’s not for every enterprise. If voice quality is mission-critical, for instance, there is a business reason for retaining traditional phone service.