Michael Blowhard writes: Dear Blowhards -- * Stephan thinks you might want to consider giving up wheat and eating the fat on your steak. * Time to start using lard? The Wife is one major lard-lover. "Lard is what makes

Michael Blowhard writes: Dear Blowhards -- Peter Schiff seems to think that hyperinflation is worth a worry: And as for the car companies ... Best, and mighty concerned about his meager savings and fixed income, Michael...

An anonymous reader points out a story in the Washington Post, which begins: "A single response from 12 million e-mails is all it takes for spammers to turn annual profits of millions of dollars promoting knockoff pharmaceuticals, according to an

CNet is running a story about research from security expert Joe Stewart into the CoreFlood botnet, which has harvested at least "50 gigabytes of compressed data, searchable in a MySQL database," from a group of over 370,000 bot IDs. Stewart

In a predictable move, TDS Telecom has filed an appeal after its complaint against Monticello, Minnesota's new fiber network was tossed by a county judge in early October. As you may remember, the city decided to build its own fiber-optic

ZDNet reports on an Android bug in T-Mobile G1s with early versions of the firmware: 'When the phone booted it started up a command shell as root and sent every keystroke you ever typed on the keyboard from then on

I am a graduate student getting my degree in biomedical sciences. Because my work often requires me to maintain a local sterile environment (under a biological hood ) I find that I am unable to physically touch my computer, which

The Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 has entered lunar orbit after a cruise of about twenty days and an 805 second rocket burn. After one week in orbit the spacecraft will release a Moon Impact Probe to do a hard landing on

Eschaton is one of the first to speculate about all the GOP talking points that are about to be subjected to major forgetting. To his "Up or down vote" I'd add all the stuff about respecting the commander in chief.

From the Phoenix Business Journal: Jon Kyl, the second-ranking Republican in the U.S. Senate, warned president-elect Barack Obama that he would filibuster U.S. Supreme Court appointments if those nominees were too liberal "He believes in justices that have empathy," said

Rick Warren's The Purpose Driven Life was a phenomenon, selling tens of millions of copies and remaining on the New York Times list of bestsellers not for mere weeks or months, but for years. Tens of thousands of churches and

If true, this is very, very disturbing news. Of all Bush’s many idiot moves, his efforts to restart the Cold War may in the long run turn out to be the most perilous to the world. Our best hope is

Game: Tiger Woods 2008 Architect: ron717 Comments: Abundantly tree lined rolling fairways, beautiful greens in a natural setting. Many parallel fairways, but plenty of mounding to separate them.Green complexes are large and accessible. Each green has multiple pin placement areas

Anyway, I took it to Gamestop to get some credit for Lego Batman . First issue is that they wanted a phone number and all kinds of crap, and I argued with them. They suggest it was Ohio law with

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But I've spent a lot of time being reflective of my prior days and careers and how money fits into the whole scene. Shortly after college, I remember there was some amount of tension between Stephanie and I because, once

Storing sensitive data is a necessary risk, but with a few safeguards one can do away with sleepless nights worrying about the security of stored data

HP has added 'power-capping server technologies and energy-efficiency services as part of its Green Business Technology initiative

Bike ride this morning