Tino Buntic’s neat 2000 Bloggers project has enticed a ton of bloggers – spanning A-list, B-list, C-list and whatever you call me – to leave a comment and become among the first two-thousand bloggers to comprise a big headshot-link mosaic. As evidenced even by my participation, this project underscores the ego and social drive inherent [...]

My family moved into our new home over the weekend, so we’re in the home stretch toward getting some routine back in our lives. Living at Dad’s house in the guest (attic) bedroom over the past seven weeks has been great because our family is close, and there’s been lots of help with our son [...]

Brain damage can erase cigarette addiction - health - 25 January 2007 - New Scientist
Strokes which damage a specific part of the brain can cause cigarette addicts to lose the urge to smoke overnight, researchers report. But considering what we know these days, you practically have to be brain damaged to continue smoking, or [...]

Beth Fertig, reporting on NPR/WNYC’s January 19, 2007 episode of On The Media, examined the high-definition DVD format wars, and looked to the leading-edge porn industry for guidance on the outcome. It’s Sony’s Blu-Ray versus Toshiba’s HD-DVD, and Fertig was fixated on drawing parallels to the Sony Beta-versus-VHS video format war, which the porn industry [...]

This is a bit random, but I did a little blog-buzz analyis with the Chicago Tribune around the leading Democratic presidential candidates, and, ahem, the iPhone. Check it out here.