There was nothing more excruciating for me as a kid than seeing the presents pile up under the Christmas tree but knowing that I couldn't open them until Christmas morning. On the Google Chrome team, we've had the same feeling as we've been working to get betas ready for Mac, Linux and extensions. It's been a long time coming, but today we can check the top three items off our users' wish lists. Google...
Washington (CNN) - Sarah Palin has erased her drop in the polls that followed her resignation as Alaska governor, according to to new national survey. But when it comes to opinions of Palin, a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released Monday suggests a partisan divide and a gender gap. The survey indicates that Americans are split on Palin, [...]
Well, that did not take long. Earlier today, I wrote how closely the new "grand compromise" on the public option at least seemed to closely resemble the theoretical alternative I wrote about several months ago based on several smart ideas. At the time, I predicted that these ideas would be no more tolerable to the conservative Democrats and Olympia Snowe than the public option. The reason...
If the Obama administration waits until it takes punitive action against Iran to censure human rights abuses there, it will look like we view human rights as a pressure tactic, rather than as the foundation of free society.
In September, the Orlando Sentinel reported that Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) had noticed Republicans House lawmakers intentionally forgetting or losing their voting cards in order to delay votes. Starting late in the summer, Grayson said he saw 60-70 GOP congressmen engaging in this tactic: GRAYSON: They’d all walk to the front of the House and, [...]
The public option is dead. After this news, is there any question at all that the health care bill should be opposed? I'm all ears. Meanwhile, Reuters says Public Option not dead.
There's been no shortage of talk recently about the "future of news." Should publishers charge for news online? How do they replace lost sources of revenue such as classified ads? How will accountability journalism endure? And, even more fundamentally, will news survive in the digital era? These are questions we're deeply interested in, and we've been exploring potential solutions . But what's...
The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide whether it is unconstitutional for a state-run college to exclude from official status a student religious group that limits its officers and voting members to those who accept its religious beliefs. The case involves a student group at a public law school, Hastings, in Los Angeles. The [...]
The FBI is trying to track down a bank robber who shows up wearing a mask of former US President Richard Nixon. He may be copying the plotline of the Keanu Reeves film "Point Break."...
Search is a natural starting point for discovering the world's information, and we strive to bring you the freshest, most comprehensive and relevant search results over an ever expanding universe of content on the multitude of devices you use to access it. That's why today, at the Computer History Museum , we're excited to share a few new innovations in the areas of real-time, mobile and social search...
In the latest Mind Matters , Adam Waytz (an old college friend, co-author of my favorite book on basketball, The Macrophenomenal Pro Basketball Almanac , and now a post-doc at Harvard) writes about a fascinating new paper by PJ Henry on social status and aggression. If you've read Gladwell's excellent Outliers , then you're probably familiar with the work of Richard Nisbett and Dov Cohen. They argued,...
Well, it's official. I've been telling you for weeks this was coming. I've actually been begging the bigger sites to link to my coverage of the Chicago are man linked to the Mumbai bombing but I guess it just...
Sooner or later it was bound to happen. The hottest Android handset on the planet had to have the hottest legion of Android developers following its every move, prying and prodding at its inner core until they could do what oh so many people hoped – root tha dang thing! Here are the instructions as [...]
Not content with publishing George Will's fabrications about the stolen emails (for which, see Carl Zimmer ), they now have a piece by climate expert Sarah Palin . The Washington Post simply does not care about the accuracy of the columns it publishes. Let's look at just one paragraph: The e-mails reveal that leading climate "experts" deliberately destroyed records, manipulated data to "hide...
