Cosmic Sitcom™

Is Twitter just a useless exercise in vanity or might it provide data to better understand one another?

Think the browser wars are so last millennium? Not if you’re Google and you know Internet Explorer still has up to 75 percent usage share on the Web.

This free video-to-iPod converter is not only powerful and easy to use, it’s got attitude.

Applications continue to move from the desktop to the Web browser. Which are the best? And what happens if they fail?

Apparently, Evil Wikipedians use their powers of Donating A Lot of Their Free Time to keep down the masses who only want a reliable place to get their questions answered. Oh, wait — everyone’s getting what they want. So why’s Slate claiming Wikipedia is The Man keepin’ The People down?

People still want to see movies made by people who love making them. But their appetite simply isn’t going to be satisfied in the venue of Hollywood’s preference.

Tangler is the closest you can come to one-click installation of discussion forums on your Web site, blog or social networking profile. And it’s free.

“No wonder that girls post aggressive warnings on their sites such as, ‘Do not jock, copy, steal, or redistribute any of my stuff!’ or, more to the point: ‘hotlink and die.’”
— New York Times

When BetaNews asked Blu-ray manufacturers why they rushed inferior players to market, they blamed HD-DVD: “We should have waited another year to introduce Blu-ray to the public, but the format war changed the situation.” HD-DVD was coming; Blu-ray had no choice but to launch.

“Hi. I’m SQL Server Gal. I know you’re used to hearing about me from some omniscient narrator’s perspective. Who are these people writing about me, anyway? I did some investigating, and discovered this pasty, thin little thirty-something sitting at a computer. I promptly excused him from the job.”