The horrible grunt of the Tasmanian devil. Jim Mitchell sez: “There’s an unbelievably good audio file of a howling Tasmanian Devil in the travel section Sunday’s SFGate.com. This may be the worst sound ever emitted by a carbon-based life form.” …

After researching podcasting a bit, and checking the reviews of mp3 players in PC Mag, I decided against getting an iPod, and instead ordered the iRiver H320 20 GB mp3 player from Amazon. It differs from the iPod in that it has…

NCAR Study Points to Global Warming as Key Factor The percentage of Earth’s land area stricken by serious drought more than doubled from the 1970s to the early 2000s, according to a new analysis by scientists at the National Center…

By Ramsey Clark, former US Attorney General, and co-founder of the International Action Center, who in turn was a  co-founder of the ANSWER Coalition. That Hussein and other former Iraqi officials must have lawyers of their choice to assist them…

ANANOVA – Police in Germany are hunting pranksters who have been sticking miniature US flags into piles of dog poo in public parks. Josef Oettl, parks administrator for Bayreuth, said: “This has been going on for about a year now,…

Rather than make my stereo and amp work with the PC in my new home office, it finally dawned on me. Chuck the stereo, do everything on the PC instead. The radio stations I listen to, KPFK, KXLU, and KCRW,…

VIENNA, Austria (AP) — California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger should be stripped of citizenship in his native Austria for approving the execution of a convicted killer, a leading Austrian politician said Saturday. A Green politician, I might add! Ah to live…