Belated Book Discovery. I don’t know what else to name this dept. But lately I’ve been discovering a lot of good writers who have been around for a while. This gem was recommended to me by Tor editor Teresa Nielsen Hayden. And boy…after some of the other recent SF/Fantasy offerings I’ve sampled, Steven Brust is… Continue reading

The Boston Globe has a Business feature today on a local company’s efforts to create a compression format several times better than the current standard for movie downloads on the Internet (mpeg-4). Below is a selection from the article by Hiawatha Bray (which will not be available for long–the Globe archives its stories and requires… Continue reading

Nick Schulz on the (yet again) fashionable alarmism about global warming: It is curious that the alarmists are largely silent on the failures of Kyoto in Europe. Skeptics have been pointing out the economic and technological realities of mandatory emissions reductions for years now. Skeptics have also raised alternative ways of tackling problems associated with… Continue reading

Computer Scientist Mark Chu-Carroll dismantles David Berlinski.

Rafat Ali says iPod Video is the biggest friend of the Mobile Content Industry. At DH, I spoke to Ralph Simon, arguably the father of mobile music and content industry, and now the head of MEF Americas. His work in the mobile music industry can be tracked to the growth and evolution of mobile content.… Continue reading