Liberal Talk Radio

Brier Dudley’s right: tax incentives for Yahoo! and Microsoft to build data centers in WA are triply absurd. (1) there’s no other place they can go for cheap hydro power, (2) Microsoft’s going to shut down the Yahoo! data center as soon as they buy the compay, and (3) data centers don’t create jobs. [...]

This is a little off-topic for this blog, but since we’ve been covering the Microsoft-Yahoo! deal in the podcast, I thought it might be relevant to note that Microsoft is buying Danger, Inc., the company that makes mobile phones including the popular “Sidekick.”
What I find interesting is that Google had already hired away [...]

Having used the iPhone interface for Facebook for a few months now, I’m convinced that smart phones are the natural environment for FB and its applications. So it makes perfect sense to me that Nokia is making a deal to put Facebook prominently on all of its phones.
In fact, I’d go even farther. [...]

The future busts bad cops:
An NYPD detective will be charged today with lying on the witness stand about how he interrogated a teenage shooting suspect after the savvy 17-year-old captured the whole thing on his MP3 player, sources told The Post yesterday.
When Detective Christopher Perino of the 44the Precinct took the stand last year [...]

When it’s winter in Finland, what are you going to do to pass the long, cold nights? How about rigging up your dormitory into a 15-story, cell-phone controlled Tetris game?
This makes me weep, it’s so beautiful and pointless:

In case you haven’t heard, Amazon released an e-book reader called Kindle this week. On the surface, it’s a compelling package: it can deliver books, newspapers, and a few blogs over the cell network, with no monthly charges. You buy the books, you buy the content as you want it. Battery life seems [...]

This is awesome.

The first mention of the “World Wide Web,” from a 1993 article in the newly-liberated New York Times archives:
Making all this information relatively easy to retrieve is a system known as Wide Area Information Server, or WAIS. More than 300 WAIS data bases are now accessible without charge, and a standards committee is finishing work [...]

A profile of new Columbia Records honcho Rick Rubin has spurred quite a discussion in the blogs over the future of music. In particular, this paragraph:
“You would subscribe to music,” Rubin explained, as he settled on the velvet couch in his library. “You’d pay, say, $19.95 a month, and the music will come anywhere [...]

Can it be?
Can the world’s most famous BlackBerry addict — Karl Rove himself — really be using an iPhone?