Blayne Sucks

I bought an iPod Mini several years ago. Like many iPod owners, I was simply blown away. As a skeptical purchaser of anything, I rarely pay attention to the hype surrounding products, but it was hard to find any review of an iPod that didn’t smack of the typical hype-talk surrounding new technologies. […]

Despite all the preparations, it appears that the Dallas bid won the right to host the 2011 Superbowl. Although, I understand that there is a strong football tradition in Dallas and in Texas in general, I don’t think that a football tradition really matters much when it comes to the Superbowl, which is less […]

As a JFK assassination buff, I have read several long books about the JFK assassination. However, there is a new book out there that I seriously doubt I will read. This 1632 page long addition to the mass of JFK assassination books is called Reclaiming History and brought to you by the author […]

There’s a new analysis that made some news on MSNBC. Basically, there’s a former FBI metallurgist and a couple of Texas A&M researchers who think that the bullet fragments deserve more analysis with newer techniques. Slashdot picked up the story and some of the comments are really amusing. I thought this was […]

I recently finished reading Brave New Ballot this week. Truly, it is an excellent book. Although dealing with both technology and politics, which each have their own confusing vocabulary, the book comes across as extremely easy to read and understand. Also, at 304 pages, it is a quick read. I highly […]

Somehow, I am not entirely surprised by the Teachers who Cheat article on SFGate.com. It’s a pretty obvious result from linking funding to standardized test scores, and similar things have been reported in the past. Any testing agency must be independent, and remain that way if they wish to continue to be a […]

As posted on his blog, Robert Love has left Novell. This was something that was picked up in a highly speculative article on Slashdot and a similarly speculative Digg posting. A lot of the comments were about whether or not it was “fair” for Slashdot to take a speculative stance, but this is […]