Dan Savage Breaks Down the Irrational Arguments of Heterosexuals

By Ed Kohler | Jul 30, 2006

Live Savage, I can’t understand why people are threatened by providing equality of other humans living in this country. Will hetrosexual couples refuse to marry and procreate if homosexuals can marry? Who could possibly say yes? Same-Sex Marriage Wins by Losing – New York Times When my widowed grandfather remarried in his 60’s, he wasn’t [...]

Skype has not won the VoIP battle yet.

By edkohler | Jul 26, 2006

Yesterday, Skype released version 1.5beta for the Macintosh bringing Mac users long-awaited video support. Today, SightSpeed is scheduled to release version 5.0 which should bring us inbound and outbound PSTN calls as well as TV tuner support.  While both of these offerings are great, they are both still missing some key features that would help bring them into mass adoption.

John Stossel’s Amazing Illogic

By Ed Kohler | Jul 24, 2006

It doesn’t take much genetics experience to understand that recessive genes are more likely to be passed along and expressed by people falling from the same family tree. But that won’t stop John Stossell from making the following remarks: City Pages – The Blotter – 7/24 Morning Communiqué “I’d always thought marrying a blood relative [...]

Pando: A Better Way to Send Large Email Attachments

By edkohler | Jul 21, 2006

E-mail is an interesting creature.  Originally designed for text only this beast has grown out of control with users spoofing names, attachments in excess of 10MB and just plain abuse of the system.  I have long believed that there are two areas where e-mail needs the greatest improvement:  file attachments and user authentication.  I can?¢?Ǩ?Ñ¢t fix user authentication today, but a product called Pando can fix the problems with attachments.

What Sucks about Newspapers

By Ed Kohler | Jul 12, 2006

This is the crap that makes newspapers painfully annoying to me. A headline on the homepage of StarTribune.com takes me to a PR piece about the supposed rise in the use of paver stones in residential landscaping. Check out the following paragraph. Who talks like this? A step beyond concrete Hanson is among the growing [...]

Right-Wing Web Traffic Slumping

By Ed Kohler | Jul 6, 2006

U.S. Newswire : Releases : “Web Traffic to Washington Times, Drudge Report, Rush Limbaugh.com Is Down…” Ann Coulter is coining money by attacking widows and orphans — a new game for her since she’s run out of Democrats, living and dead, to defame and verbally pillage. You would think with all of the attention the [...]

The Technology Behind Fireworks

By edkohler | Jul 4, 2006

Happy forth of July everyone!  In honor of the USA?¢?Ǩ?Ñ¢s independence I thought it would be interesting to make a post on fireworks and the technology behind them.  While at their core fireworks don?¢?Ǩ?Ñ¢t seem to have a lot of tech (light fire make boom), there?¢?Ǩ?Ñ¢s actually a lot of interesting stuff that goes into the grand displays that we all watch on the 4th.

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