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Good to know I’m not the only one who thinks this is totally rad: The XXX industry has gotten too graphic, even for its own tastes. Pornography has long helped drive the adoption of new technology, from the printing press to the videocassette. Now pornographic movie studios are staying ahead of the curve by releasing [...]

One of the best examples of the improper use of e-mail that we’ve seen in some time: Hundreds of would-be staffers in Gov. Spitzer’s administration were nervously biting their nails yesterday after an e-mail address list of job seekers accidentally became public. One applicant, with strong ties to Assembly Republicans, told The Post he feared [...]

I just upgraded my laptop to a MacBook, and thus, the global headquarters of Bruno and the Prof has received a giant infrastructure upgrade. In the process of downloading all the new drivers, I came across this questionnaire on the site: The first and fourth questions sound particularly intriguing. The idea of collaborating online with [...]

You know what’s funny? Robots falling down stairs.

Looking at Honda’s new FCX fuel cell concept car I’m reminded that over the last hundred years or so, much progress has been made to design cars around the peculiarities of the internal combustion engine. With the advent of ethanol, hybrid, plug-in hybrid, battery-powered, and fuel cell technologies, the design of the automobile as we [...]

After international officials outlawed the export of wild caviar from the Caspian and Black Seas, the market has turned to farmed fish, and I have to say, the whole business comes off as slightly perverse*: In the mid-1990′s the farmed caviar industry was nothing more than a few marine biologists with a dream. Today it [...]

As some of you know, in my double-super-secret life, I’m a mild mannered technology director, buying and installing and troubleshooting Apple computers all over Seattle. So I’m going to take this Saturday (and hopefully some Saturdays to come…) to outline various thoughts on the tech industry. If this doesn’t appeal to you at all, feel free to skip these posts.

Two weeks ago, Apple Computer did something very unusual and talked about a prototype product, the iTV, which won’t be available for some 6 months. The iTV takes all the movies, music, and photos you have stored on your computer, and streams them to your TV. It’s a hot little gadget, and one that dovetails nicely with the fact that Apple now sells TV shows and movies from their iTunes store. But there’s one feature that they haven’t announced, one that would fit perfectly in the living room.

Apropos of our previous post, who is this “Mr. T” and since when did he become so popular?

Google continues to dominate the way information is archived and disseminated. Today it announced that it will archive historical newspaper content: Google plans to announce on Wednesday that it is offering a service that will permit Internet users to search through the archives of newspapers, magazines and other publications and uncover material that in some [...]

Even in an article titled “Laptop Slides Into Bed in Love Triangle,” this seems rather like a stretch: Most couples experts said the act of taking an electronic device to bed did not by itself threaten a marriage. “It depends on the relationship,” said Marcy Levine, a marriage and family therapist in San Francisco. “If [...]