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What's the Future of United Linux?
Opinion: Should UnitedLinux Boot SCO?: UnitedLinux was formed several years ago in an attempt to bring some continuity to Linux distributions unite file system structure, etc. One of the four founding members was Caldera...now SCO. Hilarity ensues. "...in March of 2003, the organization's unity appeared to be torn asunder ...
Published: October 27, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 1000
You seriously want to go there? Seriously?
I just have to point this out as stunningly stupid. This is the home page for a huge, multinational company. Look at the picture above. If you click the link for "United States" on the bottom right there, you actually get a modal dialog box asking you: "Go to United ...
Published: December 22, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 984
Supernotes
Superdollar: Interesting article about supernotes perfect counterfeits of U.S. bills that have been turning up since the 80s. A superdollar or super note is an almost perfect counterfeit of a United States banknote believed by the government of the United States to be produced in North Korea. They think ...
Published: January 14, 2008  Geek Popularity Factor: 978
Steve Jobs' Mini-Me
Steve Jobs is out sick this month, but Wired News reports that a group from a popular Mac forum has placed him back in circulation (sort of). Jobs' surrogate is the mini iLeader, a GI Joe doll dressed up to look like the famous CEO. [...] The mini iLeader has ...
Published: September 2, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 945
Standardized Linux on the Horizon
Free Standards Group Announces General Availability Of Linux Standard Base 2.0: I believe that one of the true keys of Linux success is standardization between distributions. There was an attempt some time ago with United Linux to create a standard file system, but Red Hat never signed on so it ...
Published: September 14, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 935
Old Computers Piling Up in the Third World
Where hazards of used PCs pile up: This is depressing. It's being done under the guise of "donating" old hardware. Much of the used computer equipment sent from the United States to developing countries for use in homes, schools and businesses is often neither usable nor repairable, creating enormous environmental ...
Published: October 25, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 933
War on the Web
United States Central Command Home Page: This is really incredible it's almost a blog, complete with photo galleries.
Published: December 7, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 929
The Story of Cryptome
Does Web Information Help Terrorists?: Here's a news story about how the government was interested in the owner of a site called Cryptome (found via Boing Boing) which specializes in shining a spotlight on publicly available information. Officials questioned Young about information he had posted about the 2004 Democratic National ...
Published: August 14, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 924
The Internet and Jean Carlos Chera
Internet 'discovered' kid soccer star ... could you be next?: An interesting look at the how the Internet can change everything. I've seen this video, and the kid is truly amazing. Without the Internet, the odds of what is about to happen to him would be nil. [Jean Carlos] Chera, ...
Published: February 8, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 917
National "Computer Ate My Vote" Day
VerifiedVoting.org has declared today National "Computer Ate My Vote" Day in order to raise awareness regarding the vast numbers of completely paperless electronic voting machines that are going in across the country. VerifiedVoting.org and the Verified Voting Foundation champion reliable and publicly verifiable elections in the United States. We advocate ...
Published: July 13, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 904
India is Outsourcing Their Outsourcing
India tries outsourcing its outsourcing: Apparently the outsourcing business has become so good in India that it s not cheap to maintain programmers there so Indian companies are outsourcing their work to other countries. Now India is outsourcing outsourcing. One of the constants of the global economy has been companies moving tasks ...
Published: September 24, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 903
Linux in Afghanistan
Linux training to enhance membership in global it arena : Ten Linux sysadmins have been trained in Afghanistan by the United Nations in an attempt to rebuild the nation's infrastructure. Cool.
Published: July 15, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 898
Is Moving Jobs Offshore Really That Bad?
Who wins when jobs move offshore?: McKinsey has an opinion piece that has some interesting things to say about the current trend in shipping U.S. jobs overseas. "Many people believe that money spent to buy services abroad is lost to the U.S. economy, but such views are easily disproved. Companies ...
Published: October 26, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 886
India: Offshoring Bubble?
Outsourcing: Beyond Bangalore: Apparently outsourcing in India is running into the same problems as everywhere else. I knew the polish was going to wear off this thing before long. After 10 months of working with software developers in Bangalore, India, Bill Wood was ready to call it quits. The local ...
Published: December 11, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 874
Carmen Wins
'Baywatch' star wins control of Net name: And there was finally peace all over the world... Former "Baywatch" star Carmen Electra has won control of the Internet name www.carmenelectra.com in a ruling by a United Nations panel, a U.N. spokeswoman said Thursday.
Published: January 16, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 868
Laptop Sales Surge
Laptops outsell desktops for first time: Interesting. In a sure sign that the era of mobile computing has arrived, notebooks have for the first time outsold desktops in the United States in a calendar month [...] notebook sales accounted for 53% of the total personal computer market last month [...]
Published: June 6, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 863
Will Tech Be Our Undoing?
There's a new book out "War Footing" with some scary things to say about what could happen if the bad guys got their hands on a nuke and detonated it high above US soil. Looking at the promo website for the book makes you wonder if the whole ...
Published: December 7, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 861
Buy Your Own Space Invaders Arcade Game
'Space Invaders' to alight on U.S. soil Japanese game machine maker Taito said Friday that it plans to restart sales of "Space Invaders" in the United States, almost 25 years after the video game first appeared in arcades. [...] Taito aims to sell 10,000 of the standalone game machines at ...
Published: December 5, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 853
Operation Fastlink
Wired News: U.S. Moves Against Online Pirates: The feds aren't screwing around here. The initiative, known as Operation Fastlink, has resulted in the seizure of more than 200 computers, including 30 that served as storage and distribution hubs containing thousands of copies of pirated material. One server seized in the ...
Published: April 22, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 848
Most Edited Wikipedia Pages
Here's a page listing the top Wikipedia pages, ranked by number of edits. There are a lot of administrative pages in the list, but the top actual pages are: George W. Bush (the discussion page for this would be ranked fifth) Hurricane Katrina Jesus Adolf Hitler United States September 2005 ...
Published: March 21, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 846
In-Flight Email
Airlines Installing In-Flight E-Mail: First campgrounds, now airlines. You can't get away. A spokeswoman for United, a unit of UAL, said the carrier would offer the e-mail service on selected flights starting today and on its entire domestic fleet by the end of the year. I saw a thing on ...
Published: June 17, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 845
Manhunt 2 on the Verge of Geting Buried
Manhunt 2 release suspended: I wonder how much money they have invested in the development of this thing. [ ] consumers may never see it on store shelves. Following bans by Britain and Ireland, as well as a ratings predicament that would have made it nearly impossible to buy in the ...
Published: June 22, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 843
HDTV Prices Are Falling
HDTV for Less Than $1,000: "Samsung now offers what appears to be the least costly high-definition set in the United States, a 27-inch model in the standard 4:3 picture format for $699. Samsung also offers a 30-inch high-definition wide-screen model and a 32-inch 4:3 high-definition model, each of them for ...
Published: August 2, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 843
Supercomputer Defenders
Computer Groupthink Under Fire: An interesting look at the grid vs. supercomputer debate. Each side is better at some things than the other. Critics at a House Science Committee hearing in July on the status of supercomputing in the United States claimed that federal agencies are focusing too heavily on ...
Published: August 5, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 842
Berkshire Hathaway Web Site
BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC.: Take a look at this Web site. It belongs to Warren Buffet's company. He's the second-richest man in the United States (the world?). You'd think his site would be a bit more...professional? On one hand, this is refreshingly non-corporate. But on the other hand, it's very...1995-ish. Any ...
Published: May 3, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 841
Analysis of the U.N. Bugging Device
About a week ago, a bugging device was found at the Geneva Headquarters of the United Nations. A Geneva-based security expert who saw photos of the device told the television the system appeared to be of Russian or Eastern European origin. Its size indicated it was three or four years ...
Published: December 27, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 838
The Web Turns 15
The Web: Fifteen years of browsing: I was 19 when the Web was created, it turns out. It had a birthday last week. This is a good article. Fifteen years ago this Christmas week, Tim Berners-Lee, an obscure scientist working in a European laboratory, invented the Internet browser, now a ...
Published: January 2, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 838
Web Site OS By Candidate and Party
Is the next President of the United States running Linux?: This is old but interesting. There s a huge disparity on OS between the two parties. It s way too pronounced to be natural. It’s fascinating to me that the Dems are predominantly Open Source… except for Hillary Clinton and the Republicans ...
Published: February 9, 2008  Geek Popularity Factor: 837
Seg-why?
Ah yes, the open road, the whine of the electric motor, the light breeze in your hair: American Seque America at 10MPH Starting August 5, 2004, Spinning Blue will produce an online documentary experience of America as seen from a Segway Human Transporter traveling coast-to-coast from Seattle, Washington to ...
Published: July 13, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 836
Looking for Prior Art Against Eolas
Web patent critics spotlight old technology: This Eolas lawsuit is one of the rare issues that has united about everyone, even Microsoft. "The Web community is rummaging desperately through dusty technology archives, in a bid to overturn a sweeping patent verdict that could force major changes on the Internet's most ...
Published: October 31, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 835
Intellipedia
Intellipedia: An interesting article about the wiki used inside the U.S. intelligence community. Intellipedia consists of three wikis that run on JWICS, SIPRNet, and Intelink-U. They are used by individuals with appropriate clearances from the 16 agencies of the United States intelligence community and other national-security related organizations, including Combatant ...
Published: January 10, 2008  Geek Popularity Factor: 833
Longhorn for Sale in Malaysia
Asian Pirates Sell Microsoft's Next Windows System: Longhorn is in the wild in Asia already. Underscoring the scale of U.S. companies' copyright problems in Asia, CDs containing software Microsoft has code named "Longhorn" are on sale for six ringgit ($1.58) in southern Malaysia. Microsoft's current version of Windows, XP, sells ...
Published: December 1, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 829
In-Flight Wi-Fi
United is cleared to offer Wi-Fi on domestic flights: Can we never get away from the Net? Airplane trips were always pretty relaxing because nothing could bug you up there. The airline expects to have Wi-Fi up and running in mid- to late 2006, letting passengers check e-mail, send instant ...
Published: June 7, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 829
The Cyberwar is Here
Cyberspace Barrage Preceded Russian Invasion of Georgia: Apparently the actual war in Georgia was preceded by an online war against their network infrastructure. [ ] the Web site of the Georgian president, Mikheil Saakashvili, had been rendered inoperable for 24 hours by multiple D.D.O.S. attacks. The researchers said the command and ...
Published: August 12, 2008  Geek Popularity Factor: 828
The Salmon-Thirty-Salmon
Alaska Air has gussied up one of it's Boeing 737's with a custom salmon paint job. The airplane symbolizes the critical role Alaska Airlines plays in transporting fresh Alaska seafood to the continental United States and beyond. The paint scheme was produced in partnership with the Alaska Fisheries Marketing Board ...
Published: October 5, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 828
SAP's Plan
Ringside at PeopleSoft Bout, SAP Hopes to Share in the Prize: Good article about how SAP is trying to poach customers from the Oracle / Peoplesoft mess. "By positioning itself as a safe haven, SAP hopes to pick up the storm-tossed customers of its three main competitors, Oracle, PeopleSoft and ...
Published: June 30, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 827
USC Offers Game Design Degree
Academics Can Be Fun and Games: These guys are the perfect candidates to design those games ripped from the headlines. You gotta know the plotline first. Once dismissed as the pastime of geeks hunkered down in their dorm rooms, gaming has evolved into such a strong cultural and economic force ...
Published: November 13, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 825
NOAA Web Site Traffic
Public storms NOAA site: Ivan hasn't been the only thing the National Oceanic and Atmopheric Administration has had to worry about. Keeping their Web site up hasn't been a rose garden either. Also collecting up-to-the-minute, high-resolution images, NOAA's Web site has received a record number of hits during this hurricane ...
Published: September 17, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 824
Hacker Fiction
What is it with the geek novels these days? It all started with Stealing the Network. This book is a novel and security primer rolled up into one. Stealing the Network is a book of science fiction. It's a series of short stories about characters who gain unauthorized access to ...
Published: October 7, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 823
Cyber Monday
Cyber Monday: I had no idea tomorrow had a name. The term Cyber Monday refers to the Monday immediately following Black Friday, the ceremonial kick-off of the holiday online shopping season in the United States between Thanksgiving Day and Christmas. [ ] The term Cyber Monday is a neologism invented by ...
Published: November 25, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 819
Google's CEO Joins Apple's Board of Directors
At yesterday's meeting of Apple's board of directors, Dr. Eric Schmidt, chief executive officer of Google, was elected to the board. Link. Schmidt joins the uber-elite crew of Bill Campbell, Chairman and former CEO of Intuit Corp., Millard Drexler, Chairman and CEO of J. Crew, Albert Gore Jr., Former Vice ...
Published: August 30, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 818
Walmart Sells SuSE
Wal-Mart Adds SuSE-Based PCs As Linux Offerings Grow: They've sold Lindows machines for a while now, but this is good news for the Linux camp. "Walmart.com has added the SuSE distribution to its PC lineup, and PC consumers can now purchase the Linux-based machines for under $300. The Microtel-designed systems ...
Published: July 15, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 818
Online Lotteries
Don't push your luck with online lotteries: Interesting new phenomenon. The article claims they're rife with legal and ethical problems. When you buy a ticket from such Web sites, they say they then buy a lottery ticket from a state-licensed retailer and charge a service fee (usually $1 per ticket). ...
Published: October 5, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 817
What Time Is It
The official U.S. time: This site came in handy today. This public service is cooperatively provided by the two time agencies of United States: a Department of Commerce agency, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and its military counterpart, the U. S. Naval Observatory (USNO). Readings from the ...
Published: August 9, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 817
What Will Become of Opera: An Answer
Opera, the Forgotten Browser: About a month ago, we asked "What will be come of Opera?" now that Firefox has such momentum. Here's a Wired article about the future of Opera that points to mobile and handheld devices as the platform it's staking out. Things seem good at the company: ...
Published: January 26, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 813
Hacking Text
CNET posts an interesting New York Times article about a group of European researchers who have found ways to 'un-black' blacked out text in documents like those released by the government in recent months by using a process-of-elimination technique to figure out what words fit under the obscured area. The ...
Published: May 10, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 813
The Call for a Standard Linux GUI
Linux vs. Windows: Choice vs. Usability: Yes, yes, yes. The lack of standard operation with Linux GUIs (and perhaps more importantly individual Linux applications) is a huge barrier to desktop acceptance. "The multiple-GUI problem illustrates a basic difference in Windows and Linux. Windows has one general GUI interface ...
Published: August 30, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 813
Use the Web or Pay Extra
Northwest, United Airlines Adding New Fees: Two airlines are making booking tickets via the Web their default method all other methods will cost extra money. Northwest Airlines Corp. plans to begin charging customers and travel agents extra fees for domestic tickets that are not booked through the airline's Web ...
Published: August 25, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 811
Medical Record Blackmail
A tough lesson on medical privacy / Pakistani transcriber threatens UCSF over back pay: I d like to say that this is a lesson about what can happen if you send work offshore, but the truth is that this could just as easily happen in the United States. A woman in ...
Published: October 23, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 809
Napster is Free...Again
Napster to let users face the music...for free: This is the new trend. Rhapsody has done something like this, and Pandora has been offering free music for a while. Online music is rapidly becoming like radio, except you can pick what songs are played, whenever you like. Napster, the online ...
Published: May 1, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 808
Geolocation Primer
Geolocation tech slices, dices Web: A good, summary article on the next killer app of the Web: geolocation. Type "dentist" into Google from New York, and you'll get ads for dentists in the city. Try watching a Cubs baseball game from a computer in Chicago, and you'll be stymied. Pre-existing ...
Published: July 12, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 807
Offshoring and Ethics
Should CEOs and CIOs consider the implications of off-shoring IT services on US society?: Fascinating question over at LinkedIn which boils down to, is offshoring ethical? Off-shoring of IT services is further eroding the United States of good paying middle-class jobs. CIOs are under pressure to meet yearly targets typically ...
Published: March 6, 2008  Geek Popularity Factor: 805
I'll Admit, I Thought The 'Halo Effect' Was BS
When Apple started selling iPods, they had this theory whereby people would like the iPod so much that they'd sell more Macs. Given that iPods work fine with Windows PC's, I thought that notion was dubious at best, and a scheme to falsely build stockholder confidence at worst. It turns ...
Published: November 22, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 804
We Lie Like Dogs
The Top Ten Lies of Engineers: Great article about how we lie and lie to everyone about the code we write and the systems we build. The best one is number eight: "We can do this faster, cheaper, and better with an offshore programming team in India." Rank and file ...
Published: April 28, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 800
Getting Paid to Quit
IBM to Encourage Employees to Be Teachers: This is definitely an interesting and unorthodox approach for what IBM sees as a growing problem. [IBM], worried the United States is losing its competitive edge, will financially back employees who want to leave the company to become math and science teachers. [...] ...
Published: September 16, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 799
Was TechTV Borged?
What happened to TechTV? It merged with G4 a year or so ago, but now seems to have vanished completely. They got assimilated and forgotten. I was looking through the "List of Flops in Entertainment" page at Wikipedia (wickedly addictive), and came upon a blurb for "G4TechTV," which was the ...
Published: June 25, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 799
Are you a superspy Flash developer?
Graphic Designer - Int MM Emph — Central Intelligence Agency: I just watched The Bourne Ultimatum (excellent film, BTW), and as usually with spy movies I m stuck by the fantastical awesomeness of the information systems in the film. Everything has a Flash interface, and it s all wicked cool ...
Published: August 5, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 799
R.I.P.: Total Information Awareness
Congress Shuts Pentagon Unit Over Privacy: The Total Information Awareness database project is dead. "The Pentagon spending plan for 2004 adopted by the Senate says that the office, the Information Awareness Office, which had been headed by Adm. John M. Poindexter, should be 'terminated immediately' while a few projects under ...
Published: September 26, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 798
China's Web Addiction Rehab Center
Rehab for Web addicts includes shock treatments: It was announced recently that China has the second largest number of people online, after the United States. Apparently some of them are online too much. While China promotes Internet use for business and education, government officials also say Internet cafes are eroding ...
Published: July 1, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 797
Programmers Are a Bunch of Monkeys...Literally
Primate Programming Inc: They say that if you sat a thousand monkeys at a thousand typewriters for a thousand years, they would eventually turn out Shakespeare. Maybe, but could they get a Java servlet to compile? "Welcome. Primate Programming Inc. is dedicated to the advancement and gainful employment of non-human ...
Published: August 6, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 797
Data Over Power Lines
Microchip turns electric outlet into wireless link: I remember the stress I put myself under when I built my house to ensure I had data lines in every room. Between this and wifi, I don't know why I worried. Products are still being developed, but gadgets embedded with the chip ...
Published: September 29, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 797
IMDb History
Internet Movie Database - Wikipedia: An interesting few paragraphs on the history of the IMDb. The database started out in 1990 as a collection of shell scripts created by Col Needham which could be used to search the FAQs posted to the Usenet newsgroup rec.arts.movies. In 1993, a centralized e-mail ...
Published: July 17, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 793
Web Sites and Terrorist Groups
Web Sites Listed as 'Terror' Groups: This seems a little fishy to me. Is the enemy the Web site, or the organization behind it? If you give money to a "Web site," you're really giving money to the organization that runs the site, right? "The United States has added Web ...
Published: October 13, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 793
China Gets the Bronze!
Congrats goes out to the Chinese as they have successfully launched a person into space. Looks like space will be getting a little more crowded, but at least the food will be good. NASA better watch out, price for sending people and payload into orbit will soon take a tumble. ...
Published: October 14, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 791
GoDaddy's Bob Parsons vs. NTIA
Go Daddy Promotes Privacy Fight: I have some domains hosted with GoDaddy, and I got a scathing letter from the president a guy by the name of Bob Parsons about a recent NTIA decision: A February decision by the US Department of Commerce requires new registrants of .US ...
Published: April 1, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 790
Photoshop and Currency Images Revisited
You guys remember the Photoshop controversy from a few months ago where it was discovered that Photoshop wouldn't work with scans of currency? It was designed to protect against counterfeiting. There have been a few developments: There's a Web site now, rulesforuse.org, that details the rules issued by various currency-protecting ...
Published: October 1, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 790
Giving Control of the Internet to the U.N.?
Plan for UN to run internet 'will be shelved': I'm not paranoid about the U.N. like some people, but this just strikes me as a bad idea, mixing business and politics to this extent. "An attempt by developing countries to put management of the internet under United Nations auspices is ...
Published: November 11, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 784
The Inslaw Affair
I stumbled into this story about a week ago and have been fascinated by it ever since. It's the story of how the United States government essentially stole some very powerful software twenty years ago they liked it, they installed it, they used it, then they just stopped paying ...
Published: November 22, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 780
A Big Slice of Pi
Student recites 8,784 digits of Pi: I know I promoted memorization before, but this is a little over the top. A high school student Tuesday recited 8,784 digits of Pi -- the non-repeating and non-terminating decimal -- likely placing him among the top Pi-reciters in the world. Gaurav Rajav, 15, ...
Published: March 16, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 779
Shredding Tomcats
Pentagon shreds F14s to keep parts from Iran: The U.S. is very concerned that parts from our retired fleet of F-14s might find their way to Iran. There were things getting to the bad guys, so to speak, said Tim Shocklee, founder and executive vice president of TRI-Rinse Inc. in ...
Published: July 2, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 779
Blackberry Paranoia
CEOs shudder at thought of BlackBerry shutdown: A article about how many in the business world are terrified at the thought of having their Blackberries shut off. "It's just nuts. The idea that someone is just going to switch it off in three or four weeks, even if it's only ...
Published: January 25, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 778
P2P Whack-a-mole
Well, the **AA's crackdown on the BitTorrent network has apparently reduced the number of illegal BT users. Good job, Hollywood. Is it better somehow that they're all on eDonkey and Gnutella now? [A] recent study by Internet analysis firm CacheLogic reports that former BitTorrent users have simply switched to eDonkey, ...
Published: August 29, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 778
Wal-Mart and the CFL
How Many Lightbulbs Does it Take to Change the World? One. And You're Looking At It.: We tend to slam Wal-Mart when we think they're evil, so we should probably pat them on the back when they do something good. And this is very good, because incandescent bulbs are evil, ...
Published: August 30, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 776
Telrad and the Hacking of the White House
Israeli spies tapped Clinton e-mail: This is a very old story (and a reprint of a dead link at a British newspaper), but one that the spy junkie and hacker geek in me both find fascinating. Apparently, in the late nineties, Israel had get this a direct connection ...
Published: September 2, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 753
Goodbye 747?
Is this old bird about to get its wings clipped?: The venerable 747 is finding itself less and less popular these days. ...airlines don't like the 747's fuel bills. It burns about 3,200 gallons of fuel per flight hour, about one-third more than the Boeing 777 [...] Air carriers also ...
Published: August 15, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 745
419 Hit Squad
I haven't received one of these yet, but according to an article in The Register, the 419 scams perpetrated by the Nigerians aren't netting as many suckers as they once did, so the scammers are promising death instead of easy millions. All you've got to do to spare yourself is ...
Published: July 19, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 729
Widening the Canal
Panamanians Vote Overwhelmingly to Expand Canal: This is going to be interesting to watch. Panama voted yesterday to embark on the biggest project in the history of that country: widening the canal. The overhaul, to begin next year, will double the canal's capacity by adding a third set of locks ...
Published: October 23, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 725
Ethanol and Energy Balance
Study says ethanol not worth the energy: This is a couple of weeks old, but still a bummer of a deal for the Midwest. Ethanol is kind of the Darling of the Dakotas given all the corn around here. But, sadly, it seems as though it's not a terribly efficient ...
Published: July 30, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 721
Can Diversity Be a Bad Thing?
vs. Linux GUI: Owen found an interview that really, really hits the nail on the head about a big problem with Linux. Right now, the Linux community values "diversity" too highly to ever get a single, consistent GUI, let alone a good one. At the same time, it holds on ...
Published: April 12, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 702
Amtrak and the Economics of the Sunset Limited
Some good news -- it looks like Amtrak isn't going to die anymore, given that Congress just gave them $626 million. But are we just shoring up an industry that, sadly, hasn't been self-sufficient in this country in maybe 20 years (total speculation there)? I love trains, and I wish ...
Published: June 30, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 695
My Corbis Nightmare
Yesterday, I wanted to buy a stock image from Corbis to use in a Web site I'm developing. It was a standard hi-res image of a man standing in front of a building reading a newspaper. This should have been simple... For those that don't know, Corbis is the largest ...
Published: June 11, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 648
The GM Report: Learning to Drive All Over Again
As I mentioned in a previous post, GM flew me out to Detroit this week to take a run at their 2008 lineup. I flew out Tuesday night, and stayed all day Wednesday at their Milford Proving Grounds essentially a 4,000 acre obstacle course for cars (the Proving Grounds ...
Published: September 30, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 617
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