The past three weeks in American life have been extraordinary, to put it mildly.  There hasn't been this much history made in my lifetim...

Regarding Murthy v. Missouri : the Supreme Court decision yesterday about government coercing social media companies to censor users' ac...

No, I am still not going to "write" a blog post using artificial intelligence.  I'm sitting in front of a keyboard composing ...

Doom , arguably the most installed piece of software in the history of anything, today celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of its release. ...

Had to take some photos with my iPhone and send them to my personal e-mail account.  But when I was about to use them I was hit with a shock...

This is already the scariest thing I've seen all month... and it's only October 2nd.  A terrible, terrible line has been crossed.  A...

Hey gang, got something really special for you.  How often is it that you have the chance to get in on the ground floor of a new piece of te...

You might have noticed a slight addition to this blog.  It's on the header, toward the right of the screen.  There now appears the follo...

This coming December will mark thirty years since the original computer game Doom was released by id Software.  Gadzooks!!  Where did all th...

The notion has been bugging me for a few years now: could my old Atari 2600 - technology that's fully four decades old - be made to wor...

For whatever reason, over the weekend I found myself musing on how far the Intertubes have come from the crazy days of dial-up PPP and ICQ a...

Thank the Lord this isn't a Super Mario Brothers game.  Or a Fallout title. So here's the conceit: if you die in Upsilon Circuit ,...

Catherine Rose and her daughter Alexis It is an honor and a privilege to be able to say that I have been able to count Catherine Rose a...

Imagine a few years from now having a smartphone or an iPad equipped with extremely nonvolatile memory, retaining information for decades , ...

Remember that stunt Jeff Gordon pulled on an unsuspecting car salesman a few months ago?  The one where Gordon was disguised as any off-the...

Unless you're reading this on a mobile device (and even that owes a lot to him) you're enjoying this blog and practically everything...

This is easily the technology that I'm keenly following more than any other right now.  And for plenty of good reasons... 3D printing ...

The Liberator: Coming soon to a desktop near you! Defense Distributed has made a lot of headlines lately about the Liberator : a firea...

"Liquid breathing" from The Abyss . Do not try this at home. Remember in James Cameron's movie The Abyss , where Ed Harri...

Incest is a terrible thing.  But when you're one person among a population of 300 thousand, your odds of contributing to genetic bottlen...