Jan 29 2010

I predicted this

A Mon­roe County grand jury today indicted the scum­bag who set the Fam­ily Dol­lar store fires. both North Clin­ton and North Goodman.

I knew this would be the case, given the tim­ing and loca­tions but offi­cials would not con­firm any link between the two fires, at least until now.


Jan 29 2010

Wegmans tops Greenpeace’s Supermarket Scorecard

Local super­mar­ket chain Weg­mans was first on Greenpeace’s Super­mar­ket Score­card for seafood sustainability.


Jan 29 2010

Jay Leno Talks To Oprah, But He Still Doesn’t Get It

If you believe Jay Leno, the only inno­cent per­son in the Tonight Show deba­cle is Jay Leno. Unfor­tu­nately for him, the only per­son who believes him is Jay Leno.


Jan 28 2010

Postscript: J. D. Salinger

In honor of J.D. Salinger’s pass­ing, The New Yorker has posted twelve of the thir­teen sto­ries they pub­lished of his between 1946 and 1965.


Jan 28 2010

Daring Fireball: The iPad Big Picture

Dar­ing Fire­ball: The iPad Big Pic­ture.


Jan 28 2010

Aliens can’t hear us, says astronomer

Aliens can’t hear us, says astronomer. Wrong. While com­mer­cial broad­cast­ing may be reliant on satel­lites and dig­i­tal, there are still plenty of non-digital sig­nals being sent out of the atmos­phere by ama­teur radio oper­a­tors. Of course, ama­teurs don’t broad­cast so it will be harder to detect and lock onto, but there’s still RF head­ing out into space.