Get your Swarm of Locusts

Get your Swarm of Locusts Plaguedome at Products of the Apocalypse.

War Puts Radio Giant on

War Puts Radio Giant on the Defensive: Clear Channel Communications has long been the company that the music industry loves to loathe, so aggressively dominant as the nation's biggest radio broadcaster that some critics refer to it as the Microsoft of music. Now, though, Clear Channel finds itself fending off a new set of accusations: that the company is using its considerable market power to drum up support for the war in Iraq, while muzzling musicians who oppose it.

Robert Cringely on Tivo: Life

Robert Cringely on Tivo: Life With TiVo Why Television Will Never Be the Same:

Commercial television will adapt or die. Maybe they’ll make commercials even more interesting than the shows themselves. Broadcasters will find ways to cope, though between now and then there will be plenty of breast-beating and tantrums. Only non-commercial broadcasters like PBS will remain unaffected and serene.

TiVo? TiVo is our friend.

Edward Tufte analyzes a Boeing

Edward Tufte analyzes a Boeing Powerpoint slide presented as part of the Columbia investigation.