What is mLife? As it turns out, the multi-million dollar campaign, which debuted in a mysterious and vaguely philosophical spot during the Golden Globe Awards, is an elaborate rebranding effort conceived by…

I blog, therefore I am. Ever read a weblog? Perhaps you are one of the growing numbers who keep one. Or maybe you haven't got a clue what they are. Read on, all will be explained by British blogger Giles Turnbull.

Maxtor on Monday increased the capacity of its line of Personal Storage 3000LE external hard drives to 120GB from 40GB. The 120MB drive sells for about $300; the 40MB version costs about…

Blah Blah TV. In case you missed the Superbowl commercials like I did, you can head on over to USAToday and decide which…

To quote Butthead. This is the coolest thing I have ever seen… Shiny, metal mirrored surface, LCD read-out, DVD player, REMOTE CONTROL, and…

Pepsi needs a new ad agency. This year's Superbowl ads were OK, but most of them sucked. The mlife (AT&T Wireless) people really…

Views of 2 planets should be a gas. Jupiter, the largest planet, is the brightest object in the sky after the sun and moon. In February, the planet is directly overhead, marking the feet of Castor, the northernmost twin of Gemini…

Casio tops list of digital cameras. Canon's PowerShot G2 offers great photo quality, long battery life, and top-end features for enthusiasts, though it's a bit complicated for novices…

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American troops raid own side. At first it seemed like a spectacular achievement. American spec-ops forces successfully raided a high school full of Al-Queda leadership…

EMAIL – Six degrees of separation. A team of sociologists at Columbia University in New York has set up an online research project to discover if everyone with computer access really is only six emails away from everyone else.

True Revolution In Screen Design. 'Many users would pay more for a system that actually worked and that was easier to fix when it broke. A vendor could take the high road and build a PC out of the best…

Moving On Up to MT. I finally got around to finishing my tutorial slash review of Movable Type and it's now posted…

Beam Me Up. Whizzy, spinny, Enterprise / UFO looking like thing. SimiCon, a Norwegian company focused on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles is developing a circular craft that uses both rotors and a low profile jet in order to provide the high performance of a fixed wing craft along with the VTOL capabilites of a helicopter. Looks pretty cool.

Spacecraft to study solar flares set for launch. Solar flares are the most powerful explosions in the solar system. Although the flares occur 150 million kilometers away, their powerful emissions can disrupt the upper atmosphere, interfering with terrestrial communications. They can also damage…

Open Licenses for Fun and Profit. A host of issues regarding open systems must be resolved if open source is to work in the real world. Although licensing is a darn good first step, we can't put everything under…

Computer glitch hits ISS. A computer problem on the International Space Station Monday caused the station to lose some power, although NASA officials say the problem is temporary and already being corrected.

More Technology Fits in a Handheld. The basics of Palm organizers haven't changed in six years: a liquid-crystal display about two inches square, a simple handwriting-recognition program and four buttons to access your schedule, address book, to-do list and notes.

Philips Burning on Protection. Philips, the Dutch electronics manufacturer, appears on a collision course with the record labels over its objection to copy-protection codes burned into CDs. The fight could be the format's death knell.

GeForce4 ready for launch. Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Technology Investment Symposium outside of Palm Springs, Calif., on Monday, CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said Nvidia will announce the GeForce4 graphics processing unit (GPU) family at an event in San Francisco.

Ack! Chris told the Lockergnome world about my blog before I had intended! Oh well, I need to get more into doing this anyway. Don't expect anything like his, though. He's just got WAY too much energy. No way I could keep up with him. [Furo.com]

One series of commercials are worth noting. I believe they were run by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America. They linked drug use to terrorism. The premise is that terrorist organizations are funded by selling drugs which make their way to the… [Scripting News]

The prevalence of pirated shareware. Plenty of shareware applications may be overpriced, but it is the users' responsibility to support the creators of truly innovative applications which are worth their price…

Teen faces 692 Net porn charges. Assistant Chief Butler said the images traded on the Internet involved both sexes involved in various types of sexual activity. He said he didn't know the exact number of victims pictured in the photographic images or where they were from…

Windows more secure than Linux? Although the statistics so far only go up to August 2001, aggregated distributions of the Linux operating system suffered 96 vulnerabilities while Windows NT/2000 suffered only 42.