Geekfoolery

So, a week or so ago, Google announced that it had increased the size of allowable attachments to email messages in their Gmail service to 20 megabytes, which is swell, and their personalized homepage iGoogle just added a couple new features, and so like I’m sitting here on my second pint of Arrogant Bastard Ale, […]

A few days ago I wrote about a way to save gas that involved leaving the truck at home and hooking up a motor to my bicycle to deal with 30 miles across LA (and back again every day). I’m still serious about that one, but with a bit of luck, a man in Florida […]

Getting a cheap computer has been possible for some time if you either know what you were looking for or don’t mind a bit of crap shoot. A basic tower can be had for a couple hundred bucks if you look around and get lucky. Laptops will set you back a couple hundred bucks more. […]

Earlier this month the word went around that on May 15th, we were all going to stick it to the man by not buying gas. Those fat cats at Chevron and and Exxon and the rest of ‘em–they’ll see. Just one day will be all it will take to show Big Oil that we’re mad […]

Is it possible in 2007, this push-button world of the future that we enjoy, to improve upon something as basic as a radio?
As it happens, yes. Tivoli Audio has been making their Model One Table Radio since 2003. What is so special about an AM/FM radio? After all, can’t you walk into pretty much any […]

It’s the future already, and that means that while you were out getting a five dollar pizza and 2 liter bottle of soda, the web was getting better, more functional, and easier to use. If only this effect worked with other things, like my car. Imagine getting behind the wheel and finding that with no […]