Monthly Archives: September 2004

If you love Aard­man Ani­ma­tions (Wal­lace and Gromit, Chicken Run) you’ll love Crea­ture Com­forts, an Oscar win­ner. Aard­man does a lot of com­mer­cial ani­ma­tion work, in addi­tion to their movies and short fea­tures. For instance, the Serta sheep (hence the … Read More →

A US Dis­trict Judge has ruled that part of the Patriot Act is invalid, call­ing per­sonal secu­rity equal in impor­tance to national secu­rity. The sec­tion struck down allowed the FBI to force ISPs and phone com­pa­nies to give up infor­ma­tion … Read More →

Per­son­ally, I find the seem­ingly end­less ads for pre­scrip­tion drugs on tele­vi­sion and mag­a­zines to be mad­den­ing. It’s cre­ated an age where patients go to their doc­tors demand­ing a cer­tain drug, rather than relief of symp­toms. One of the rea­sons … Read More →

Hey, what do you know, Griffin’s radioShark isn’t vapor­ware after all. It not only is an AM/FM radio, but it allows you to record and/or pause live broadcast audio.

I live in a world I can­not either under­stand or even imag­ine on my own.

Space­ShipOne landed safely after a wild ride that included 20 bar­rel rolls. To win the X Prize they’ll need to repeat the flight within two weeks so you can be sure they’ll be work­ing fever­ishly to fig­ure out what hap­pened … Read More →