Had to come out of Towform hibernation for this: For the 'funemployed,' unemployment is welcome These jobless folks, usually singles in their 20s and 30s, find that life without work agrees with them. Instead of punching the clock, they're hitting...

Nice "open letter" to Warner Bros. regarding their misguided DVD piracy strategy. Max Barry - Dear Warner Bros. I’m writing because yesterday I rented The Dark Knight, and I couldn’t watch it. I tried. But when I popped that DVD into my home...

Seems that all 30 GB Microsoft Zune players bricked themselves at midnight this morning (as 12/30 became the 31st). 30GB Zunes mysteriously begin to fail at 12AM, December 31st The failures are coming 24-hours ahead of the big '09 changeover, but that...

Back-Button to the Future They had me at "manipulating the temporal web." Essentially the next evolution of the Wayback Machine, and if it works as advertised I'm blown away... Check out the video demo.

40 years of pointing and clicking The original mouse was quite large, barely fitting in the user's hand, but Engelbart envisioned that you would keep one hand on the mouse at all times and the other on a special one-handed keyboard instead of a...