“Dick Cheney stashes secrets securely by the sea shore. How many secrets does Dick Cheney securely stash?

This administration does not turture logic. It simply flew logic in an unmarked plane to Bulgaria.

“3G is darn near a cable modem experience. When you’re connected via that little “3G” icon in the upper-right hand corner of your mobile phone screen, it’s like a beautiful, golden river of bytes flowing into your cell phone. It makes using the internet on the go an absolute pleasure. EDGE data connections, on the other hand, are none of those things.

The iPhone only supports EDGE data connections— and doesn’t support 3G data connections at all! It’s a cruel oversight for a phone that has such an outstanding web browser. If you think reliance on WiFi is an advantage of the iPhone, check your reality distortion field. I’ve lived the WiFi lifestyle when I’ve travelled, and it’s not pleasant. Free, public WiFi points are a dying breed.

“By weighing in at more than 6,000 pounds, big SUVs are prohibited on thousands of miles of road in California. Cities across the state—including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Pasadena, and Santa Monica—use the 3-ton cutoff for many or nearly all of their residential streets. However, prosecution of the Golden State’s ban on big SUVs is a contender for the least enforced traffic regulation in America.

Those who take the federal and state tax breaks for their heavy SUVs are happy to accept the GVWR as their vehicle’s official weight. After all, they must be over 6K to get the write-off. Yet now they’re arguing that the actual weight of the vehicle as it rides along California streets may—may—be slightly under 6K. Pick a number and stick with it.

“A car driver who is involved in a side-impact with an SUV is 27 times more likely to die than if it had been another car.

“Why are we telling our students not to use Wikipedia rather than educating them about how Wikipedia works? Sitting in front of us is an ideal opportunity to talk about how knowledge is produced, how information is disseminated, how ideas are shared.

“Current AM radio licences are up for renewal in 2011 and 2012. The question whether or not current stations will be commercially viable by then.

“The difference between networks is all in the profile questions. Do you want to know religion or do you want to know job title?

“The name Christopher Columbus is the anglicization of the Latin Christophorus Columbus. Also well known are his name’s rendering in modern Italian as Cristoforo Colombo and in Castilian Spanish as Cristóbal Colón.

“The government always uses cases of child porn/rape to grab new judicial powers for itself, since no one is ever willing to speak up for the accused. It’s a nasty trick that’s been going on for a long time.

“Somehow the web development universe got turned upside down. Ruby got a Pythonic framework, and Python has a TIMTOWDI smorgasbord of frameworks.