Year: 2005

Well, your parents always told you it would make you go blind: “Federal health officials are examining rare reports of blindness among some men using the impotence drugs Viagra and Cialis… This type of blindness is called NAION, or non-arteritic…

Though I could have told you this two years ago, when I worked at PalmSource, it should by now be clear to pretty much everyone that the PDA market is dying a slow but certain death. This is just one…

This article (linked in title above) by Clay Shirky, first published in September of 2003, does a pretty convincing job of taking apart the web’s great white hope of micropayments: The people pushing micropayments believe that the dollar cost of…

Reported by Maureen Ryan in the Chicago Tribune: May 18, 2005 6:15 PM CDT: The ‘Girls’ are back ‘GILMORE GIRLS’ UPDATE: The WB’s executive vice president for network communications, Brad Turell, said Wednesday that the network will broadcast the entire…

A sampling of criticisms, now that “the saga is complete”… Rolling Stone‘s Peter Travers is right: Lucas is a “skilled producer, clumsy director and tin-eared writer.” And Travers is dead on with his assessment of the prequels as an “investment…

Well, my friend Brian was right: It Sucked. I’m not sure where to start. Random thoughts below, including spoilers. Not that it really matters. Anyone who hasn’t been living under a rock for the last twenty years already knows all…

Here it is, in the nutshell that is the logline for yesterday’s 90-minute season finale: “A nightmare leads Clark to begin to understand why he was sent to Earth and he seeks counsel from Jor-El, who warns him that he…

Cory Doctorow tells it like it is: America’s entertainment industry is committing slow, spectacular suicide, while one of Europe’s biggest broadcasters — the BBC — is rushing headlong to the future, embracing innovation rather than fighting it. Unlike Hollywood, the…

Last night, some friends and I took a Local Tastes of the City Food Tour through Chinatown and North Beach. It was not good. Our guide, Tom Medin, was so genuinely excited about his cheesy and sometimes blatantly untrue San…

The sad thing is, I totally believe this story: Several years ago I went to Nordstrom at Christmas to do some shopping. The place was a mad house. The clerk took my credit card to ring up my order at…