Monthly Archives: August 2005

GMail Gagged

GMail’s been down for hours. I wonder if it’s a combination of opening GMail to anyone who wants it and releasing an IM client that requires a GMail account. Probably more of the latter, as I don’t think anyone who really wanted Gmail was still waiting for it. And now GMail has a new [...]

Commuters’ Feathers Ruffled

Ostrich takes hike on bridgeThe 6-foot-tall bird, who apparently didn’t feel like hiding its head in the sand, escaped from the back of a cargo van on the Golden Gate Bridge on Monday, stopping evening commute traffic in both directions and sending dozens of tourists racing for their cameras. The ostrich, a female, got loose [...]

Toronto Sun’s Glare

It’s nice to know what the Toronto Sun thinks about Evangelicals (HT: relapsed catholic). Maybe next week the editors will reveal the secrets of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Robertson’s call to murder cast a spotlight on the growing power of the loopy religious far right, grouped under the banner of the Christian [...]

McAfee and Web Standards

As a Comcast broadband subscriber, I’m supposed to get a free copy of the McAfee anti-virus and firewall software for my Windows machine. But McAfee requires ActiveX for its downloads, so I have to use Internet Explorer. Fine, I thought. I use Internet Explorer only to test the look of web [...]

Opera Giveaway

I’m a Firefox man myself, but I respect Opera. Usually you have to pay to register your copy or put up with sidebar ads. But today you can get a free registration code from Opera, as part of its tenth anniversary celebrations. (It’s really that old?)

Daniel Dennett and the God of the Gaps

In an editorial from Sunday’s New York Times, Daniel Dennett takes aim at “Intelligent Design.” He does make a few cheap shots at the notion, such as this: Since there is no content, there is no “controversy” to teach about in biology class. But here is a good topic for a high school course on [...]