My first piece on "net neutrality" As far as I know I've never written about net neutrality on scripting.com. So this is the first time. I've never written about it because I didn't know what to say.
Let's imagine what would happen if the Founding Fathers were alive today. First, I think they'd be pretty jazzed about not being dead anymore. That's a given. Secondly, and this is fairly obvious, I b
Op-Ed Contributor Exporting Our Way to Stability AS the United States recovers from this recession, the biggest mistake we could make would be to rebuild our economy on the same pile of debt or the pa
mjaycantrell: How bad did the Bush Tax cuts perform? How does $2.74 Trillion in lost income sound to you? Let all the cuts expire. http://bit.ly/akmEH7
By George Dohrmann, Sports Illustrated
SI senior writer George Dohrmann met Luchs [pronounced LUX] in
July while working on a story about the agent business. Luchs
represented more than 60 players during his career, which placed
him in the middle class of the industry. He was viewed by other
agents…
“When I take people out here in the winter, sometimes we just lie down on it,” says Susan Thoman. She’s gesturing to a mound of rich black organic matter the length and height of a warehouse at the Ce
I’m not going to pretend that the Navy-Notre Dame game means as much to the Irish as it does to the Mids. Notre Dame is Navy’s Everest, the service academy’s annual shot at one of college football’s b
Most college football fans are relatively unfamiliar with Paul Johnson . I don’t necessarily blame them, but that unfamiliarity has led to some damaging misconceptions that could prevent Michigan from
Procrastination interests philosophers because of its underlying irrationality. Illustration by Barry Blitt Some years ago, the economist George Akerlof found himself faced with a simple task: mailing
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Despite popular opinion, I do not prefer ultra-powerful task-management tools. I would rather keep my running to-do list inside of [Simplenote](http://shawnblanc.net/2010/08/simplenote/). Many a weeke
I'm going to tell you all some things that you don't want to hear first. There is no defensive scheme that "solves" the option, and there will never be one that "solves" the option. 4-3, 4-2-5, 3-3-5,
By Jonathan Martin 10/21/2010 04:49 AM EDT The election is two weeks away, but the campaign trail reviews of Sarah Palin already are in, and they aren’t pretty. According to multiple Republican campai
T he classic zone read , where the runningback runs the zone play to one side while the quarterback reads the backside defensive end, is a great play. But if you use it enough, two problems emerge. Practice makes perfect First, just because you’re reading the defensive end doesn’t mean you’ve made…
Behold, the final entry in our thrilling saga of Getting Active With OmniFocus, and in this episode, ALL WILL BE REVEALED. WAS your intrepid blog author in fact able to master the art of personal task
At 19, Sean Parker helped create Napster. At 24, he was founding president of Facebook. At 30, he’s the hard-partying, press-shy genius of social networking, a budding billionaire, and about to be famous—played by Justin Timberlake in David Fincher’s new film, The Social Network.
Downhill With the G.O.P. Once upon a time, a Latin American political party promised to help motorists save money on gasoline. How? By building highways that ran only downhill. I’ve always liked that
Oregon Turns Practice Into Nonstop Sprint With Precision as Goal Under Coach Chip Kelly, dark shirt, Oregon’s practices are so intense that even the team managers have to tape their ankles. Credit...
If you are unfamiliar with
the term, read my friend Harry’s article for a great piece on
“the fanboy“. Now, onto the piece
– which I anticipate bringing me tons of annoyed Android
folks (much like my tablet rant did last year).
I started using Android last December with the HTC Droid Eris. My…
Seventy years ago, in 1940, a popular science magazine published a short article that set in motion one of the trendiest intellectual fads of the 20th century.
Why did humans evolve the capacity to imagine alternatives to reality? Was story-telling in prehistoric times like the peacock’s tail, of no direct practical use but a good way of attracting a mate?
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What Is It About 20-Somethings? Credit... ROW 1 , left to right: Annie Ling, Jen Davis, Latoya Ruby Frazier, Elizabeth Weinberg. ROW 2: Dru Donovan (1,2,4); Marvin Orellana (3). ROW 3: David Wright, L
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