I’ve been meaning to blog about this for awhile. In July, a TV station in Bowling Green, Kentucky reported on a controversy at Gig Harbor High School in Washington. The dean of students said he saw two girls kissing. He checked the surveillance tape then shared what he saw with the parents of one of [...]
(Tim Wu provides an excellent write-up of everything that I say when someone asks me what I think about the iPhone: Why the iPhone isn’t really revolutionary.) My three observations about the iPhone: It’s not an open platform and there’s no development kit (yet). For now, Apple is the only company that can make applications [...]
Ars Technica dropped an update on the “Family and Consumer Choice Act of 2007,” (press release) cosponsored by Rep. Daniel Lipinski (D-IL) and Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE). The bill proposes to give subscribers options for more “family-friendly” programming in two ways: (1) forcing cable providers to follow FCC broadcast indecency standards related to the scheduling [...]
William Saletan handles Slate’s health/science writing, and I respect the guy for being able to cut the crap—he deals with scientific advances with clarity and depth. His insight on Lybrel, the new birth control pill that prevents periods altogether, is head-noddingly good; I knew that he was going somewhere interesting when he wrote: “Technology doesn’t [...]