Busy Mythbusters week, in addition to the following, Savage also backpedaled on the whole “credit card company lawyers threatened us about doing anything on RFID security” story.

Irrespective of the RFID story, his comments on science education are very good.

When Jamie Hyneman and I speak at teacher conventions, we always draw a grateful crowd. [...]

Brilliant. It is flabbergasting that the State of California asserts copyright over material that is the fruit of public taxpayer dollars… and on top of that, is information that represents required knowledge for select segments of the market. This is an interesting article about a guy that has a lot of support behind his activities.

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This is perhaps the biggest exposed flank that Google has with Chrome:

Extensions could be a critical weakness. Google doesn’t have a great track record for bringing out the community to participate in its projects, and without the extensive plug-in catalog that Firefox has collected, Chrome won’t displace it.[From Chrome: Nice, But Not a [...]

Summer is over… I took my son to first day of school today and the hustle and bustle of not only school but also traffic reminded me that the long slow month of August is history. I was out on vacation last week but today is back to business.

While I have been writing more about [...]

Let’s have a means test based on the consumer’s weight and body fat index to determine not only how much salad they can buy but also what kind of dressing they get, if any. Uh yeah, personally I think we should simply stop trying to tell people how to live their lives.

The New [...]