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Is up and running. I went to a launch party for it last week at Chris Nolan’s home. Nick Denton, the guy driving the thing, is exactly what you’d expect.

If you do an image search for Tiananmen on Google’s new China site, everything looks happy. But spell the ill fated square wrong as in: Tianenmen, Tienanmen and Tiananman, and it’s all tanks, baby. Gotta love it. Thanks to Paul

In this LA Times op-ed (link will expire), Cosh makes some great points about Canada. Perhaps the most humorous was his observation about how Canada’s new conservative government will affect pot smokers. He writes: The new regime is likely to

Google recently created a public-relations firestorm when it unveiled a new search site in China that censors data on behalf of the Chinese government. Though the search giant’s success stems from its birth in a free country, that doesn’t mean

JiWire says that San Francisco has 801 public hotspots — more than anywhere else in the US. The Chron’s Ryan Kim wrote a news piece about it today. I hope the mayor reads it.

This is an interesting article. According to researchers at Emory University, partisan party members in both the Democratic and Republican parties ignored data that conflicted with their beliefs. Well, that explains some things…

This was a long time coming and it’s too bad the Conservatives only won a minority. Stephen Harper, Canada’s 22nd PM, is incredibly smart and a good guy too. I knew him back when we both worked in Preston Manning’s

California Secretary of State Bruce McPherson will be speaking for the California Women’s Leadership Association tonight. I will be there and am looking forward to a great discussion. If you would like to attend, information and tickets are here.

Pre-emptive regulation of nanotech is a silly idea and I say so in this news piece.

This web site makes me feel like its 1999 again except that the “I kiss you” guy has been replaced with dead guy.