Yes, Virginia, there is a sales tax. With Republicans no longer in control of the House, Forbes says this may be the last Christmas you’ll be able to dodge sales tax by buying that $350 iPod or $1,200 laptop online.
The Internet was just coming into its infancy in 1994 …

Last week I was informed that the MBNA credit card I’ve had for years was “acquired” by Bank of America. Ok no big deal, mergers go around all the time as big corporations get even bigger by swallowing other corporations whole.
But I was shocked to discover that my interest rate …

Given this gadget matches my blog namesake, you’d think maybe I invented it. Alas, though I’ve made lots of other inventions, this is not one of them.
For those of you interested in sustainability or renewable energy, your first and best defense against power waste is to look for energy that …

Our lovely model above appears to be boarding up her cabana in preparation for the next hurricane.
Nails, as inventions go, have a legacy back to before the time of Christ. And after two milliennia, they are still pretty much the same; a piece of iron wire with a wider top …

Multiple news sites are reporting that
levels of the second most important greenhouse gas, methane, have stabilized.
From Scientific American: "During the two decades of measurements, methane
underwent double-digit growth as a constituent of our atmosphere, rising from
1,520 parts per billion by volume (ppbv) in 1978 to 1,767 ppbv in 1998. But …

Years ago in the 50′s, nuclear energy was the big idea of the time. Clean and nearly limitless energy for everybody was the promise, and ideas such as having a home nuclear power station were even floated to provide independence from the power grid.. I was so impressed with this …

We all have something to be thankful for today. Whether you are stuffing yourself, or stuffing your agenda, be thankful we live in a country that allows us to even have your choice of stuffing.

Have you ever wanted a reliable way to test your Internet connection speed? I have, and there’s been a bunch of tests devised…but not all work that well. I even saw one once where after the test a picture of Al Gore would pop up and say “I invented the …

The picture above of a thunderstorm over Upper Bidwell Park was taken by my Bidwell Ranch Weather Station Webcam at http://www.bidwellranchcam.com this summer.
Weather in the mountainous portion of upper park can sometime be pretty unpredictable, with storms forming quickly due to upslope winds which cause an Orographic Lifting effect aiding …

PlayStation3 is out. I’m under-whelmed. The most odd part of this is
that people are actually leaving their jobs, schools, and family to camp out in
front of stores to be first to get a GAME. Go figure. Are they so lacking for
meaningful things in their life that this becomes the most …