by Jerome Woody

Posted 7 months, 1 week ago Lewis Black deconstructed Earth Day children's programming on last night's The Daily Show, including a great jab at actor / MTV Cribs balla' Wilmer Valderrama. Read More

Posted 1 year ago Cool trailer. The Day the Earth Stood Still is one of the better disaster movies to come out this year. Keanu Reeves' cold logic about solving Earth's problems is bone-chilling.

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Posted 1 year ago I wanted to post this before editorial found it, because when I see something this cool, I like to plant my flag on it.

The following is a segment from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's program "Marketplace," back in 1978. To repeat: Nineteen. Seventy. Eight.

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Posted 1 year, 8 months ago

It's official. Spitzer's splitting because of his loose zipper. Lt. Gov. David Paterson has been given an unexpected promotion. Now that we know what is going to happen with the personnel shift, people are scrambling to gauge how this new governor will deal with ongoing issues in the Empire State, a state that is third largest in both population and economy.

I was born and raised in New York state, and pretty much all of my… Read More

Posted 1 year, 8 months ago Remember the gPC? It's Everex's $199 "green" Linux computer, the one Wal-Mart stocked up on during the last holiday season. Well, it seems the "experiment" is over, with an unsatisfied Wal-Mart putting those famous price-cutting scissors on their plan to sell the cheap PC in their stores.

According to the AP, Wal-Mart concluded that their middle-American consumer base was not hip to the gPC's Linux-based operating system. However, seeing the appeal of the computer to a more geeky clientele, Wal-Mart will continue to sell it on their website.

Why should anyone care? Far as I know, this was… Read More

Posted 1 year, 9 months ago A friend of mine showed me this video last weekend, and I just wanted to show you all how freaking cool it is. It's a ongoing work of Dutch artist Theo Jansen, who's literally creating artificial creatures that can move on their own and survive autonomously on a beach. Wind-powered and updated using simulated genetic evolution ... well, just look! Read More

Posted 1 year, 12 months ago Wal-Mart has always been a place of consumer frenzy at the beginning of the holiday shopping season, and this year is no exception. What's different is that one of the items flying off the shelf faster than they can restock it is the "Everex gPC," a cheap (less than $200) desktop computer. Read More

Posted 2 years, 4 months ago I found this in my Google Reader feed this morning, a post from a British blogger named Charlie living in Beijing. Three weeks after it was reported that the Chinese government convinced the World Bank to suppress a report that over 700,000 Chinese citizens die every year of pollution-related ailments, due to the fact that it may lead to revolution social unrest among the populace, Charlie's post reads like a bittersweet valentine to the city he's lived in for four years: Read More

Posted 2 years, 4 months ago As birthplace of the Kyoto Protocol, Japan is one of the pioneering countries in climate change policy and research. In 1990, Japan pledged to reduce carbon emissions by 6 percent by 2012. One of their proposed stratagems for meeting this goal is to replace the 132 million gallons of gasoline that Japan car drivers use with a biofuel option. Read More

Posted 2 years, 4 months ago If not, here it is.

Man that's cool. I wish we had one of Chip standing on his head. Read More