Peter Shankman on a Los Angeles Times ethics breach that saw the editor sleeping with a publicist, whose client was chosen as a celebrity guest editor for the paper.
Steve Hall thinks the e-mail pitches that mimic l337 speak are goofy. Please just send the details about the ad campaign, so the bloggers/journalists can decide if it's worth covering.
A report on credit card practices shows that banks are increasing their late fee charges considerably, without doing a good job of explaining the changes to customers.
John Wagner can't understand why people spend their time influencing behaviour with music, voice, images, etc., then express shock when someone suggests that music might affect how people behave.
"It’s got the mass of thirteen Jupiters but orbits its star in less than four days, making it the largest, most massive planet ever found in such a tight orbit."
"Henrik Svensmark [...] believes that the planet is experiencing a natural period of low cloud cover due to fewer cosmic rays entering the atmosphere, which is responsible for much of the global
"If the earliest days of Second Life resemble the first century of American history (and they do) then the most recent years of the world seem to be replicating the last couple decades of the Int
"Now that the elections are over it appears that e-voting technology vendors have escaped total meltdown in yesterday's elections. That's about the best you could have hoped for, but you're not o
"Tuesday's midterm election provided a sobering reminder that electronic voting technology is still not ready to shoulder the responsibilities of democracy."
"Earth's recent warming trend might in part be due to a lack of starlight reaching our planet, a new study suggests. But other scientists are not so sure." Just wait until the anthropic clim
"Prior to Moore's milestone works, writing comic-book dialogue was an occupation akin to being the script doctor on a porn video: It wasn't clear the job even needed to be done." Reason is u
"The library books at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Wisconsin Historical Society will be digitized and added to the virtual shelves of the Google Books Library Project..." Firs
"New images from the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter will confirm for many that the features are natural, while no doubt offering tantalizing "clues" to others of an ancien