Day April 6, 2005

Thousands protest Schwarzenegger benefit

Raucous S.F. rally at his fund-raiser for ballot measures Thousands of noisy protesters outside the Ritz-Carlton hotel greeted Governor Schwarzenegger as he arrived in San Francisco for a fund-raising dinner. CBS 5 report by Sharon Chin. KPIX-TV San Francisco. Quicktime…

White notebooks

It used to be that no-name clone notebook computers were low end and unreliable. This no longer true. I recently got a Wintec KN1 notebook, and it’s state of the art – 15.4 inch wide screen, every port imaginable, Pentium…

Toshiba breakthrough: superfast recharge batteries

The Japanese tech giant announced today a new generation lithium-ion battery technology which can be recharged to 80% in one minute, with total recharge taking a few minutes more. This is huge. Recharge time for everything from cell phones to notebook computers…

Torture Inc. Americas brutal prisons

From the BBC Channel 4, reported by Deborah Davies – with video Savaged by dogs, Electrocuted with cattle prods, Burned by toxic chemicals, does such barbaric abuse inside U.S. jails explain the horrors that were committed in Iraq? They are…