House paint that blocks WiFi!
Wow…I never even thought…
Cnet’s Crave site has a nice little piece on this. There is a new house paint that will block your wireless signal from leaving the house so your neighbors can’t steal it anymore. Hmmm…
Of course, you could always put in some security, maybe MAC address filtering, something so [...]

Well, they aren’t really sure, as this crowd-counting stuff is a bit tricky.
PC World has an article detailing some of the issues with counting the crowd, and how inexact it can be. There are lots of satellite images that show everyone who gathered (including our very own Ruthy Gillen and her fiance Colm). See the [...]

Actually, I haven’t made it all the way through it. I am unable to.
Microsoft has some new software out, called “Songsmith”. This dreadful piece of code spawned this commercial that is so bad it’s (almost) good, if you know what I mean. Sort of like Plan 9 From Outer Space, or this fabulous David Hasslehoff [...]

Cnet has lots on Windows 7, the beta shipping, a big Q & A, and more, as part of their Beyond Binary blog.

See it here

And who can blame him?
President-elect Obama is a very tech-savvy fellow, unlike past residents of the White House. The man actually knows what the Internet is (imagine!). He has used a BlackBerry for years and - reasonably, I might add - wants to keep it.
Anyone who has used a BlackBerry or similar smart-phone device, whether [...]

Lifehacker has a post today:
Tech evangelist and Microsoft consultant Blake Handler hosts an impressively complete list of free Windows programs offered by Microsoft, dug from the trenches of Del.icio.us tags. It’s a handy bookmark for Control+F hunting.
Follow the link and get to a great list of everything free from Microsoft. This looks to be a [...]

Here is some more info on light pollution, from the Wired magazine web site. The photo below is Chicago at night - no real surprise that if you live in a city like Chicago, you can’t see the Milky Way galaxy, or make out constellations, or much else besides the brightest stars and planets.
Since 2009 [...]