Geekfoolery

The simplest, most obvious move can often be the boldest.
Amazon.com is now selling plain vanilla MP3 downloads from their web portal. Although the move follows Apple’s deal with EMI to sell DRM-free tracks for 30 cents more earlier this year (Apple’s iTunes Plus tracks are also recorded at a higher bit rate for better sound […]

Much like the hapless beauty queen, I’ve always believed we need more maps. Good thing we’re living in the Internet age… we’ve got more maps than we can shake a laser pointer at.

Back in the 1990’s, my jaw dropped when Mapquest came online with a searchable map of the entire US, with driving directions and […]

Taiwan-based computer maker Asus has just announced that by the end of the year, they’ll deliver a laptop computer to world markets with a retail cost of $189.

This announcement puts Asus at the head of the pack of a number of other companies and projects that have been looking to produce a cheap, functional laptop […]

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, […]

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 […]

It’s pretty much a given that worldwide, kids are fountains of boundless energy that could solve global warming if we could just direct that energy into something useful, instead of say, Pokémon. Some folks got the idea and came up with the Play Pump for villages in Africa. It’s an ordinary piece of kid’s playground […]