Wow. That model looks like that Chinese grandpa who modeled his granddaughter's clothing line. Also, like she hasn't washed her face in about a week.

I don't accept the assumption that, if we could just somehow prove homosexuality was genetic, the evangelicals and ex-gay "therapists" would back off. When have these people ever let evidence get in the way of a good culture war? The choice argument is a decent piece of support for them, but it's not their main…

I was sad to see Newzbin2 go, but there are still plenty of usable search engines out there. Binsearch.info works just fine. I was happy to pay a little for the luxury of a curated engine, which kept me from wasting my time and my BlockNews allotment on incomplete or mislabeled files, but it's still better than going…

There's a fine line between ping pong and ching chong. Or maybe there isn't.

I agree that this is a problem for the end user, but if I were a manufacturer or an OS developer, it's not one I'd be eager to fix. When we view a device as public, as with a desktop computer or a video game console, a household only needs one. When we view it as private, as with a smartphone or tablet, every…

My favorite handset name from my days as a Verizon tech was the Casio G'zOne, which managed to massacre conventions of punctuation, capitalization, and pronunciation all at once. Bonus points added because its most common mispronunciation sounds like a misstatement of an elusive part of the female anatomy. "The G'zOne…

And yet they make such a big deal out of their downloads being spyware and malware free. This is definitely going to increase the number of times I have to drive to my mom's house and uninstall the dozen toolbars that are slowing down her browser.

I think the complaint is that, even when you do pay, as with Hulu Plus, there are still ads. Although, thankfully, the full-length movies are ad free.

A slightly-less free but much more usable option for recent TV is usenet. Sign up for a service that sells gigabyte blocks, rather than a capped monthly subscription and a newzbin account, so you know what you're downloading has been quality checked, and a free binary downloader like GrabIt, and you're good to go. I…

Does anyone else think this sounds like a sneaky way of getting people to type a website name into the search bar, get redirected to google, see a few ads, then click the link? Chrome will never have a Firefox-esque awesome bar for that reason. I assume Google got in the browser business to maximize their ad-serving…

I used to work at a Verizon store. You wouldn't believe how many people willingly hand over their phones to technicians with all manner of depravity still on the hard drive. My favorite part was the look of horror on customers faces when I'd ask if I could open their picture folder. One of my co-workers had a flash…

This is more or less the same machine I used to transfer customer data when I worked at a Verizon store. Anyone with the money can buy one of these and they aren't difficult to use.

For me, the platform makes all the difference. I'm willing to deal with all manner of ugly, unintuitive, and clumsy UIs if a program for my PC does what I need it to do, but on my Android phone or my iPad, the limited screen space and absence of a mouse make ease-of-use much more important. That goes double for the…

This only applies if you're worried about pesticides getting into your body, but don't care if they find their way into the ecosystem.

This only applies if you're worried about pesticides getting into your body, but don't care if they find their way into the ecosystem.

For those using Android, PlayOn is the best way to watch the games on your phone. It's not free and, depending on your modem, it can take some time to set up, but it gets the job done. I just wish I'd remembered to install the newest version on my PC before I left for work this morning.

Not any game, since MLB.tv is still subject to the league's arcane blackout rules. In a nutshell, that means you can't watch any game your hometown team (or, if you don't have one, some team in your general region) is playing in.

Sounds like mostly the same titles that are already available on Netflix Instant.

Panoptoly?

Suck on that, Thomas Kinkade.