by Tony W. Cartledge | Jan 29, 2010 | Opinion
I heard a radio report about a new Google app called “Google Xistence” that can supposedly live your online life for you, posting random tweets and Facebook status reports, and interacting with other social media sites. At the end of each week it can send...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jan 27, 2010 | Opinion
By now most folks have heard about the U.S. Airways jet that diverted from its flight path last week and landed in Philadelphia because an Orthodox Jewish boy was using phylacteries in a morning prayer ritual. The flight attendant had never seen anyone doing that...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jan 25, 2010 | Opinion
It’s been a year and a half since I’ve mentioned Spirit and Opportunity, two mechanical rovers that celebrate their sixth anniversary on Mars this month.Six years — imagine that. When launched, NASA scientists hoped the rovers would hold up for three...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jan 22, 2010 | Opinion
Thursday’s Supreme Court decision allowing unlimited political spending by corporations may turn out to be George W. Bush’s greatest victory, one that could tilt the political landscape in dramatic ways.The former president managed to get the U.S. into two...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jan 20, 2010 | Opinion
Five years ago, when researchers determined that youth ages 8-18 were spending an average of six and a half hours per day plugged into some sort of electronic media, they thought the trend had topped out, limited by the number of hours in a day. They were wrong: a...
