The Florida Highway Patrol is trying to obtain a search warrant for medical records of Tiger Woods to determine if the wounds the golf great sustained early Friday morning are consistent with a car accident or domestic violence. Authorities believe they can show probable cause a crime was committed, a necessary step in obtaining a warrant to search the hospital that treated him. That probable cause...
Hillsdale College Professor Paul Rahe writes: I am not a great admirer of Peggy Noonan as a journalist. Most of the time, she aims at capturing a mood, and I generally find the lack of analysis and the sentimentalism so visible in her work offputting. There are, however, moments when she hits the ball out of the park, and she did so just a few days ago in The Wall Street Journal . Noonan began by...
Good thing the PlayStation 3 dropped in price. The US Department of Defense ordered 2,200 more of the consoles to crank up their PS3 supercomputer, currently consisting of 336 of the devices in a Linux cluster. According to the official Justification Review Document (cache link) required for the purchase of the PS3s, the game platform, with its IBM Cell microprocessor, is a much better value for the...
Today’s elections in Honduras was a huge victory for democracy and a huge embarrassement for the former leftist President Manuel Zelaya and the Obama White House. Despite the fact that Zelaya urged Hondurans to stay home to protest the vote, the freedom-loving Hondurans turned out to vote in record numbers. A turnout of more than 60% was [...]
It isn’t even December yet, but Microsoft’s Bing search engine is already announcing its top ten most searched topics of 2009, as well as the two celebrities that were binged more than actress Megan Fox. The new Microsoft “decision engine” has only been in service since June, but Bing has apparently analyzed billions of search queries in order to create a list of the ten most...
As a general matter, I think there are far too few uses of executive clemency, commutation and pardon in our current criminal justice system. But here's a case of one gone awry that may end up having real political ramifications....
Apple has posted details on a new full-time position at its Cupertino headquarters for an iPhone Software Engineer who will join its newly created Maps team. On the job description web page, Apple says it wants to “…take Maps to the next level,” and “…rethink how users use Maps and change the way people find [...]
Just about everything you need to know about U.S. foreign policy is in this short post by the Atlantic's Marc Ambinder: President Obama convened a last-minute meeting of his national security team tonight to discuss the language that his administration will use to describe its new strategy for Afghanistan. Two administration sources confirmed that the meeting, which began at 5:00 pm, included cabinet...
We’ve had the term “global warming” in the lexicon since well before the Internet became a household tool, certainly well before Google itself. So it is with amazement that I report the rise of a new term, “Climategate” in just a little over 1 week in the Google search engine. Here’s our old friend “global warming”: And here [...]
MAKE subscriber bumpercrop writes in to share this excellent Harry Potter -inspired whereabout clock, The Magic Clock . In the story, the clock is a magical item with hands that show the location of each family member. This beautifully constructed remake does the same, except that twitter feeds, a hacked router and a custom clock movement are used in place of unspecified magic. I love the attention...
Senate report says Al Qaeda leader was in Tora Bora when military leaders decided not to pursue him with force• Obama Faces Tough Task in Outlining Afghan Strategy• U.S. Tries New Tack Against Taliban No tags for this post.
According to Reuters, not only is Nokia not abandoning Symbian as its smartphone platform of choice, but the Finnish mobile giant plans only one (1!) Linux-based device for the entire next year . Nokia refused to officially confirm this information, which comes from a “source with direct knowledge of Nokia’s product roadmap,” saying that they “remain firmly committed to Symbian...
The Washington Post Saturday published a syndicated cartoon that addressed the seriousness of the growing ClimateGate scandal while marvelously bashing Nobel Laureate Al Gore. This came a day after associate editor Eugene Robinson said the e-mail messages obtained from the British Climate Research Unit damage the "consensus" concerning man's role in global warming. Is the Post trying to...
