Science and Technology

Is this a hotel, or a hip-hop brothel?

Hmm, it seems to me that the people who would be interested in something like this: She needs to be coddled with sweet talk and pampered with gifts, but you’ll never see her in the flesh. A Hong Kong company has developed a “virtual girlfriend” for new cell phones with …

U.S. News’s annual college rankings are out and available on the web – methodology and FAQ are here. All kinds of breakdowns and tabulations are available, as well as a Get Into College guide and the all-important Financial Aid section – it’s a very valuable resource. My alma mater Wittenberg …

We told you about the legal wrestling over the use of Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land” in JibJab’s presidential election animated film parody. JibJab wins: On Tuesday, Ludlow Music agreed to allow JibJab to distribute its film, which is based on the tune, without interference. Also Tuesday, JibJab …

Watching a large block of the Olympics last night yielded a few semi-random thoughts: The men’s and women’s gymnastics apparatus finals: I can understand why these incredibly strong, flexible, tough, determined, fearless, crazed little freaks of nature (in the best possible sense) dedicate their (mostly) young lives to their sport: …

The legendary Berklee College of Music has been really making use of the Internet with its Berkleemusic online program. Now they are REALLY going crazy-go-nuts offering college credit courses in music online for the first time: Berkleemusic.com, the online extension school of Berklee College of Music, today announced that it …

Perhaps the area where the president is most beholden to the religious right, and the area of my greatest disagreement with him, is where the pro-life extreme bleeds into stem cell research policy. I have no logical problem with those who are pro-life: I may disagree with them, but I …

Warner Brothers Records is the only major label that hasn’t got around to discovering Blogcritics – can’t be bothered I guess, which would indicate to me a high level of cluelessness. While I admire WB’s efforts to integrate themselves into the Byzantine world of blogs – but not yet Blogcritics, …

Here is my day today: I sent out a group email to all 500+ of our members via my Compuserve account regarding our 2nd anniversary and other administrative things. I was told – when AOL absorbed Compuserve and we were switched over to the AOL mail system a couple of …

Perhaps you remember the original concept of tbomedia.co.uk: “free CDs for bloggers”. Blogcritics celebrates its 2nd anniversary in August, and as it turned out we were way ahead of our time: the concept that record companies, DVD distributors, book publishers, etc., would provide review material for bloggers was met with …