I don’t eat a lot of meat but I’m not a vegan, or vegetarian. I’m still an omnivore as nature intended — I think. But I’ve often wondered why we call chicken, “chicken”, turkey, “turkey”, but pig is pork and cow is beef. And it’s bad enough to learn that cows nearly die when they are force fed… Read More »
Did you know that 3D printers are getting cheaper and cheaper and now people are printing real guns? I’d be interested in printing real money — don’t we have enough guns in the U.S.A. already.I would love to print some rainbow trout and a baked potato right now…I’m hungry. Maybe we can print bitcoins…or dollars…or hundred dollar bills.… Read More »
Hey! We’re just the messengers here. But apparently Wally*World — um we mean Wal*Mart — will be matching some other stores’ Black Friday prices — a week early. So we’re only reporting what we’ve read on Gizmodo. If they’re right then you might not have to get trampled as you rush into your favorite store to get those… Read More »
Hey, we’re controversial — we’ve been known to call a spade, a spade. And we are opinionated, but we’re not sticking our neck out on this one. Oh, if only we had the money to buy every brand of laptop and test it for you — we sure would. And if we could, we’d give your our ratings… Read More »
Gifts is the new name for donations: Thanks so much for your support. As we’ve noted in our newsletters, PayPal has changed the rules for donations and made them for “non-profits” only. So we had to take down our donations page. Since we did so, we have received many emails from those of you who wanted to… Read More »
Google’s Gmail is already using https:// (secure web page technology) and has been working on encrypting all data it moves between data centers since last summer. Now, with the revelation of NSA’s spying on U.S. and citizens of other countries, both Google and Yahoo are stepping up their efforts to make sure all data in transit is secure… Read More »