Science daily has an article discussing a new book, “What Bugged the Dinosaurs? Insects, Disease and Death in the Cretaceous,” by George and Roberta Poinar. In it they discuss the effect that insect born disease and parasites possibly had on…
I guess its my own fault for being called Matthew, but my email address (almost all of them) start with a letter that means I get more spam than those with other starting letters. Those letters are “A”, “M”, “S”,…
Over here in Aus for $90 a month I get 20GB which is one of the larger consumer cable Internet plans you can get. I can understand why US companies imposing a limit when there used to be none would…
A recent article in Slate magazine talked about some of the recent moves by companies like NebuAd and Charter Communications around moves towards behavioral targetting of web ads. The basic idea is for your ISP or a third party site…
I am sure given the audience of this blog that many of you are already forcing Gmail to use SSL, especially if you are on a public computer or wifi network. At the recent DefCon conference a “reverse engineer” Mike…
A recent article in Businessweek discusses how Dell plans to make a second play into the MP3 space based on its recently acquired Zing software and the ex Apple iPod executive, Tim Bucher, that came with it. The strategy that…
There is an eye-opening article by Joshua Green in this months Atlantic that gives some insight into how modern political campaigns work. The Front-Runner’s Fall is an analysis about the HRC presidential campaign and what they did right and wrong.…