50th District campaigns hit home (Cheap phone calls) stretch

50th District campaigns hit home stretch
North County Times - NORTH COUNTY ---- On Tuesday, voters will cast their ballots in what could turn out to be the first of four elections for the 50th Congressional District seat, which has been vacant since disgraced former U.S. Rep. Randy Cunningham resigned in late

Editor's Review
BusinessWeek - The Bottom Line A sloppy layout makes this phone a pain for anything but basic voice calls It's no small feat to build a gadget that lets you make and receive phone calls from anywhere. To this day, I'm still amazed that somehow the exact right

Sunday, April 9, 2006
Columbian - Beck had just received a call from an energy trader at PacifiCorp. The Portland-based private utility was offering to sell a month's worth of electricity in July at a price significantly cheaper than the money Clark would spend fueling its natural

News is a Conversation
Spokane Spokesman-Review - I was pleased to see the excellent piece on the fallout from the hurricane in the Our View column on the Opinion page. The information it contained is very important. People need to know how to donate their money and not become victim to the many

Museum at Wheaton College pays tribute to early, primitive computers
Providence Journal - NORTON, Mass. -- There's this cartoon. A father sits at a typewriter. His son approaches. "That's cool," the boy says. "A keyboard's hooked to a printer." Mark LeBlanc can't recall where he put the cartoon. It's around somewhere, he says. But, the

Ode to the microphone: A podcaster's selection guide
ZDNet Blogs - If you had to pick one item that can make the difference between night and day when it comes to recording a podcast, that item would be the microphone. I say this while fully acknowledging that there are some podcasters that prefer night while others

CNN s Jack Cafferty Calls Tom DeLay A Cocky Little Bandy Rooster
News Busters - Tuesday s The Situation Room on CNN featured another in a long line of media attacks on Sen. Tom DeLay (R-Texas), this one by Jack Cafferty (hat tip to Crooks and Liars ). In his Cafferty File segment, Cafferty said DeLay used to

What Would You Cut?
Atlanta Journal Constitution - Mary MacDonald, who covers the Fulton school system, has been getting a lot of response to her story about budget cuts. Many are from those wanting to point out that music teachers are not the only ones losing their jobs. Social workers, ESOL

Apple adds Windows booting feature to Mac OS X
Think Secret - I'm not entirely sure why everyone is so excited about this. Other than the ability to access a greater variety of games and some specialized software in certain industries, running Windows XP on your Mac seems like a pointless activity. I'm also not