AT&T (T) is planning to put some extra shine on the even sleeker new Apple (AAPL) iPhone. When the 3G iPhone is introduced this summer, AT&T, the exclusive U.S. iPhone sales partner with Apple, will cut the price by as much as $200, according to a person familiar with the strategy. AT&T is preparing to [...]

These are my results from the survey at http://www.politicalcompass.org : The idea here is that a left/right plot is not good enough, and that the historic left/right alignment is actually an economics measure, so they added the second variable for Authoritarian v. Libertarian. It gets interesting because the survey is designed to take into account [...]

INCHEON, South Korea: The country that created the world’s first cloned canine plans to put duplicated dogs on patrol to sniff out drugs and explosives. The Korean Customs Service unveiled Thursday seven cloned Labrador retrievers being trained near Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul. The dogs were born five to six months ago after being [...]

In programming circles, it is common to keep a small stuffed animal to be kept by whatever team member has done something gloriously stupid. Some places use a Big Mouth Billy Bass, but most of my friends use a moose. Whenever one of us screws something up big time, we request possession of The Moose. [...]

There is an Andromeda Strain remake in the works, this time as a miniseries. It is one of my favorite Sci Fi movie/book pairs, I really hope they don’t screw it up. A cool thing I noticed already is that they are going the viral marketing route for the promos, since there is already at [...]

Slow news week, so here’s something that Alec Esotérica sent me: I am under the influence of prescription narcotics (got snipped on Monday), so I have no idea if the video looks *that* weird to somebody with a clear mind.

So here I am struggling with post-op recovery, insomnia and probably sleep apnea, and I ran into this: Image Credit: Comic by xkcd, used under the terms of a Creative Commons license.

It is obvious that my most common complaint about the iTunes and AppleTV platform is encoding issues. Still, there is a second aspect that most of us find annoying: proper tagging of media files. iTunes simply can’t deal with all of the tags that can be used in the movies that it can play: 1. [...]

Over the past week or so I have been pushed to do something that I really despise: I am the designated shopper in my household. Ivette has been sick for almost two weeks, and it got to the point where she could barely leave the house. She does all of our shopping, the only time [...]

Waiting for a med switch consult.