Robot Monkey Pants

Until a USB port becomes a standard car accessory, behold the next best thing, the Belkin Micro Auto Charger.

Kindle Readers Ignite Protest Over E-Book Prices | Gadget Lab from Wired.com.
I like my Kindle.  I’ve found the iPhone Kindle app to be quite useful, too.  I even got over the fact that if I want something on my Kindle that I already bought on paper, I’ll have to buy it again.
But I’m staunchly refusing [...]

In my Google News front page:

Now, what’s that picture over on the right?

Dude.

Yesterday was positively historic, make no question.  And enough words will already have been written on how great this election outcome is by the time I hit “Publish” on this sure-to-be-overlooked-by-the-Pulitzer-committee piece, that I’m not going to waste time waxing eloquent on Obama’s win.
But I have some things I want to get off my chest.
First [...]

I can tolerate a certain amount of overly flower language, but there’s one phrase that just needs to die.
After numerous Customer Service interactions with various companies, I can say that the phrase “I do apologize” is perhaps one of the most annoying, empty, and meaningless things someone can say.
It doesn’t mean anything.  If you apologize, [...]

Apple spends a lot of time making sure it gets features just right before releasing an OS.
iChat, the Enterprise Video Conferencing Solution you can Take Seriously.

For some reason, the McCain campaign is trying to paint Obama as elitist and out of touch.
So, there’s a certain irony that, when recently asked how many homes he owned, McCain couldn’t answer. He didn’t know how many homes he owned.
Smartly, the Obama campaign is capitalizing on this.
However, given the recent response to any [...]

George Carlin was among my first comic idols. It’s a real shame he’s not with us anymore.
Almost every eulogy and obituary I’ve seen on the talking picture box and the interwebs makes mention of his Seven Dirty Words bit, but he was much more than that. He was a great observational comic, a [...]

Turn Me Up is a group devoted to a noble cause: bringing dynamic range back into music. The age of the CD was supposed to make music clearer and bring out details we couldn’t hear before. Alas, the idiots behind the bulk of the music these days (RIAA, I’m looking at you) are [...]

Google does some great stuff. I use them for searches, obviously. They’ve got a great RSS reader that I love to death, and gmail’s a wonderful throwaway mail account. I don’t have anything sensitive sent there — mainly because I simply don’t trust them.
Today, I learn ofGoogle Health, and I am afraid. [...]