THE SEVEN WARNING SIGNS OF BOGUS SCIENCE

Mar 7, 2003 | news

Robert L. Park is a physics professor at the University of Maryland, and the author of Voodoo Science: The Road From Foolishness To Fraud. He has written a wonderful short article on how to recognize scientific nonsense – an important skill for all of us in these...

CYBERTERRORISM AND FUD

Mar 4, 2003 | news, security

More interesting reading: this Slate article casts a jaundiced eye at the “National Strategy To Secure Cyberspace” pushed out by the Bush administration last month. Part of a broader strategy to fill the airwaves and the public consciousness with FUD – “fear,...

CNET RADIO GOING OFF THE AIR

Jan 29, 2003 | news

CNET Radio (AM 910) has been my constant companion for the last year or more. It’s delivered technology news and talk all day, every day – and now it’s closing up the radio station on January 31. Sad news for anyone who had stumbled on its wonderful programming in the...

FCC TO PERMIT TELECOM, MEDIA CONSOLIDATION

Jan 3, 2003 | broadband, business, law, news

An article in today’s Washington Post reviews some of the major decisions the Federal Communications Commission will be making in the next few months, moves that could fundamentally rewrite the rules for the broadcast media and Internet service providers. The...

NIGERIAN FRAUDSTER BAITING

Dec 12, 2002 | news

With the raging popularity of the Nigerian e-mail scam (see my writeup and links on October 24), a new sport has sprung up – Nigerian fraudster baiting, leading the scammers on the road to ridicule. Here’s a wonderful example – an exchange of e-mails between “Dr....

LORD OF THE RINGS UPDATE

Nov 27, 2002 | news

Getting ready for The Two Towers? Here’s an early look from Time Magazine, which notes that “Fellowship was often quiet and deliberately paced. Two Towers is an unabashed action film.” They predict that we’ll like it even more than the first film. There’s no...