When the first computers were being developed, every functional aspect of the computer had to be programmed into every program.  Want your program to use a keyboard? You would have to program your punch-cards to handle this.  Want to output to a printer? You have to do that too.  Eventually, machines became powerful enough and [...]

[We talked extensively about Facebook and privacy this week on the show.  Stay tuned for our upcoming episode.] The uncanny valley is an effect in computer graphics where as depictions of humans become more and more realistic, they become more off-putting.  Yosemite Sam looks nothing like a human and is not nearly as creepy as [...]

Gizmodo bought an iPhone last week. Rumor has it they paid upwards of $5000 to $10,000 for this iPhone, which is a bit much, even by Apple’s pricey standards, but evidently the reason for this outrageous price was that this device is a pre-release version of Apple’s new fourth-generation iPhone that is to be released this June. The internet went wild.

[Note: We had some responses from our listeners concerning a recent episode in which we were fairly harsh on Facebook.  This post grew out of those conversations.] Why do we hate on Facebook so much?  I will admit that I think sometimes we get a bit carried away with it.  Its cool to hate the [...]