Month: November 2009

U.K. 'Drugs Tsar' Gets Sack for Telling the Truth – Hit & Run : Reason Magazine "Last week British Home Secretary Alan Johnson fired University of Bristol neuropsychopharmacologist David Nutt as chairman the British Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs for failing to recognize that "his role is to advise rather than criticise." Translation: […]

8 Reasons Fox Is Not a News Organization | Media and Technology | AlterNet "When you watch Fox News Channel, what you see is the advancement of that agenda through a media organ that seeks to turn regular people against their own interests — the better to enrich the coffers of Murdoch and his heirs […]

One-handed computing with the iPhone "The easy single-handed operation of the iPhone1 is not one of its obvious selling points but is one of those little features that grows on you and becomes nearly indispensable. A portable networked computing and gaming device that can be easily operated with one hand can be used in a […]