XKCD Strikes Again

Mythbusters, Zombie Feynman and a meditation on the meaning of science. What more can you ask for?

Computer Friendly Airline Terminals

I took Southwest Airlines from Baltimore to Islip recently. It was my time in the relatively new Southwest terminal at BWI. Most of the gates had a power bar set up where you could plug in your laptop and work while you waited. I had seen something similar at O’Hare, but there were many more [...]

Testing Windows Live Writer

Paul Thurrott recommended Windows Live Write recently for blog editing, so of course I had to test. I have used ScribeFire for Firefox, Flock’s built in blog editor, MarsEdit on the Mac, as well as wordpress.com web-based editor. I am obviously not completely happy with any of my choices since I keep trying new ones. [...]

Veronica Belmont Visits SLAC

Mahalo Daily is a short video podcast hosted by Veronica Belmont that covers a different topic everyday. One day it is hangover cures and another it is the perfect grilled cheese sandwich. Well I checked on the recent ones today and I saw that there was a podcast about SLAC. It is not as good [...]

Testing Flock

Flock is a web browser based on Firefox with built in integration with a large number of interactive websites. I have tested it with gmail, yahoo mail, wordpress.com, del.icio.us, and picasa web albums. So far it works ok. There is an integrated blog editor that I am using to publish this. [...]