Mac OS X Lion – Roaring optional
Lion is not going to change the world. It's very much, to my eyes at least, an incremental upgrade. For $29.99, however, it's an easy…
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Star Wars Blu-ray preview app now available for iPad
Content is organized by episode. Of course, I skipped directly to "4" (Call me a slow learner, I still can't get used to calling Star…
Remembering Mike Ward
In memory of director, choreographer and producer Mike Ward - his April 2011 acceptance speech from the San Francisco Bay Area Theater Critics Circle gala.
AAPL and JOBS
It's hard to imagine that this is the same company that almost died a few decades ago.
Bjork iPad app ‘Biophilia’ is out-of-this-world weird (and oddly beautiful)
At first blush, it looks a bit like a black and white version of Google Sky Map. Using your finger you can scroll across a…
Moving Forward at Zero MPH
On the west shore of Lake Tahoe there is a section of 10 MPH hairpin turns, overlooking the most magnificent view of Lake Tahoe.
Google+ is for the nerds
With MySpace reportedly honing its position as the de-facto social network for entertainment and music, and now Google+ apparently appealing to the tech-set, the future…
Book Review: A Tale of Terror in the World Financial Markets
Educated at Harvard and Oxford, IMF economist Rex Ghosh is doing for the econ novel what Abraham Verghese did for the medical novel.
Brian McKnight – Just Me, songwriting
"Rule number one is that you do not write a song in a roomful of people," McKnight says. "Someone says 'What do you think about…
Decline of a Nation: Do we really need badges to read news? Google thinks so
You've just read about a massive earthquake killing 2,000 people in country XYZ. Don't fret! You've just gone gold and here's a nice little colorful…