Can anyone convincingly tell me why anyone would spend $35 for a ScentStories player? I'm stymied on why anyone would get one of these.

Honestly, this shouldn't come as a surprise, but HP dumped Linux in favor of XP for a new media device they're preparing for market. Honestly I don't blame them in the least for making this decision. Playing media on Linux is a real pain nowadays. Media codecs are all proprietary …

I'm excited every time I hear of new advances in computational technology, but the marriage of living tissue and computational technology tends to creep me out a bit.

Last night we had a rather large fly in the house. This little beastie was so large a bumble bee would have felt svelt in comparison. It zipped around in the hallway and scared the crap out of JoDee just as she was leaving the den to watch TV. I …

Crap.