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• t. boone pickpocket

  Gee, why would an oilman like T. Boone Pickens, who owns one of the largest natural gas refueling networks in the country, be spending so much of his money to start a dialogue on renewable energy–particularly wind? Out of the goodness of his heart, right? Let’s ask an energy industry expert: Wind turbines generate electricity [...]

  11 Sep 2008 Economics, Politics, Technology; 4 comments. permalink   

• how to report a bug

  Steven Frank has an excellent post on reporting software bugs in OSX applications. I’ll take this one step further: several of those steps are good advice when seeking support for any application. He addresses one of my pet peeves well into the post: Include the entire text of error messages Be sure to tell the [...]

  07 Sep 2008 Technology; no comments. permalink   

• doesn’t make me want to switch back, but it’s funny

  The first Bill Gates-Jerry Seinfeld commercial: Take a good look at the picture on his Shoe Circus card. If you’re a geek or a fan of The Smoking Gun, you’ve probably seen it before.

  04 Sep 2008 Nerdery & Sundry, Technology; no comments. permalink   

• the march of tech productivity continues

  For those who are fans of hyperproductivity app Quicksilver, Mozilla Labs has a treat for you! Ubiquity is a browser-side command interface that lets you manipulate things you see in your browser (currently, Firefox only). By pressing CTRL+Space, you bring up a command line in which you can type, say “weather chevy chase, md” to [...]

  27 Aug 2008 Nerdery & Sundry, Technology; no comments. permalink   

• don’t hold your breath for “pelosiisms”

  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s message on energy, already evolving in recent weeks, might have to evolve a little more. On NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, the speaker twice seemed to suggest that natural gas – an energy source she favors – is not a fossil fuel. “I believe in natural gas as a clean, [...]

  24 Aug 2008 Politics, Technology; no comments. permalink   

• windfall profits will kill the tech industry

  And here’s yet another reason I don’t understand the tech industry fawning over the Democratic agenda. How about that windfall profits tax? I’ve asked it before: how will we decide what a “windfall” is? While I suppose that the candy-farting unicorns who would proliferate under an Obama administration might define it for us–with magic!–I’d guess [...]

  06 Aug 2008 Economics, Politics, Technology; one comment. permalink   

• why the less wired candidate may be the better prez

  Lee Gomes writes in this week’s WSJ Portals column on why we really shouldn’t give a damn whether or not the next President is insanely wired: It’s a fair question to ask: Can someone who never touches a computer truly be in touch with what is happening in the world? The computer industry has worked [...]

  31 Jul 2008 Politics, Technology; no comments. permalink   

• obama and government “innovation”

  Barack Obama seems to think that one can’t put a price tag on innovation, as Sen. McCain wants to do with his (admittedly economically questionable) $300m bounty on a new, more efficient car battery. Apparently he hasn’t heard of things like “the venture capital industry,” which essentially does exactly that. To say nothing of earlier [...]

  24 Jun 2008 Politics, Technology; no comments. permalink   

• travel channel GO

  The Travel Channel just released a new mobile web app–Travel Channel GO–which gives information on restaurants, hotels, tourist attractions, and other points of interest. I may or may not have an ulterior motive in recommending it, but I know the TCM interactive team put a lot of work into the app. It is a free [...]

  24 Jun 2008 Nerdery & Sundry, Technology; no comments. permalink   

• dr. ‘fraidofunlocking

  Or “How I Stopped Worrying and Unlocked My iPhone”. Last month, my once-trusty Razr v3c, running on Verizon’s once-trusty network, stopped being so trusty. I was not gainfully employed at the time, so I figured that if I needed to make a call from my own apartment, I’d just press my face against the window–the [...]

  22 Apr 2008 Nerdery & Sundry, Technology; one comment. permalink