Never in modern film has a camera so drooled over an actress

Don’t make it easy for identity thieves — protect yourself by opting out of pre-screened credit card offers

Turns out you can’t believe advertisements. Go figure

What’s the worst that could happen? Find out

Put up or shut up, Mr. President

Much ado about Web forms

… is the documentation. It’s not that it’s badly written; it’s reasonably clear in that sense. Rather, the problem comes from the way PHP is structured. The “core” PHP language is pretty simple — it covers only the most minimal basics, things like operators, looping constructs, and so on. This makes PHP very easy for […]

Some of you may be wondering why I took the time to write a post beating up on screenwriter Akiva Goldsman for being a consistent generator of cinematic rubbish. Part of the answer is that it annoys me to see someone getting rich by churning out crap. But only part. The bigger factor is that […]

Wondering what I was on about last week? Here you go

An aviation pioneer is lost

Since tonight is the deadline for filing Federal income taxes in most of the country, I thought now would be as good a time as any to beat one of my favorite dead horses: Progressives should embrace tax simplification. Why? Think about the system we have today. It’s so Byzantine, so complicated, that the average […]

When liberal institutions meet illiberal constituencies

You can’t see everything. But you can still have a good time

By now you’ve probably heard that President Bush authorized the use of the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on American citizens, despite laws clearly prohibiting that.  Not to mention its obvious contravention of the 4th Amendment to the Constitution. The President justified it thus: To fight the war on terror, I am using authority vested […]

Thinking about war at the grand-strategic level

The Next Big Thing from Microsoft may be neither next nor big. At least it’s a thing

I lost my mother today.

The Miers nomination

I highly recommend this portrayal of Hitler’s last days

A lesson from the sunken city

Even as thousands remained to be evacuated from the sodden ruins of New Orleans, even as gun battles continued to rage in the streets, even as corpses rotted in untold numbers of houses and cars and out in plain view — even as all the weight of the disaster began to settle in around the […]

Will the subject that has defeated Open Source Legends defeat Our Favorite Geek?

Our story ends

Exploring the history behind a neighborhood landmark

Flypaper? Let’s look at the f#@%ing map