The Food Nazis want to do with salt what they’re doing with trans-fats. Is it really for Our Own Good? (more…)

Vladimir Lenin once said that ‘Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them’. A lot of software companies, capitalist or not, would be surprised that they could suffer a comparable fate. (more…)

The internet has disintermediated many things, and the promise of connecting producers with consumers without middlemen (middlepersons?) is certainly, well, promising. For personal services, these web based spot markets have some real drawbacks. (more…)

Something as simple as naming something can assume more than a potential customer wants to know. Finding this out was a surprise and a shock. (more…)

Every economic activity has its jargon and secret rights and mysteries held back from the common lot. Technology, particularly that driven by software, has its own, but with a disproportionate impact on the environment that supports it. A serendipitous radio program demonstrated this great divide in an unusual way. (more…)

The handheld market might get a boost if Android gets ported to Netbooks. At the very least the telco death grip on mobile computing might be shaken off. (more…)

Those extra entries, the CAPTCHAs, visitors have to make to prove they are human are annoying enough, but they also don’t solve the problem they were intended to solve. Here’s a Flex way to get rid of them and make your visitor experience even better. (more…)

Much talk of President Obama ‘saving’ the US’ health industry, like Bush before him, and Clinton before him. A cornerstone of the latest ‘saving’ is a new Electronic Medical Records System. So, what’s going to happen to the two we already bought?
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