We end our honeymoon in the wondrous island of Maui and head back to L.A. today where I’m hearing that many major canyon roads are still closed due to the storms last week, thus a trip from the Valley to…

UC Davis study shows Lake Tahoe is warming up The waters of Lake Tahoe are warming up at almost twice the rate of the world’s oceans, probably as a consequence of global climate change, according to a new study by…

Two new websites, BuyBlue.org and ChooseTheBlue.com managed to attract national attention in the closing weeks of 2004. The site owners classify national chains as either “red” or “blue” based on whether their employees – almost always top executives – give…

The FBI refuses to answer the question so EFF has filed an FOIA request. Be glad EFF is there. It’s been over three years since the USA PATRIOT Act was passed, and the DOJ still hasn’t answered the public’s simple…

U.S.-led forces, using Iraq’s ancient city of Babylon as a military base, have caused “substantial damage” to one of the world’s most renowned archaeological treasures, a British Museum report said. Or maybe they’re not war pigs, just homophobic idiotsThe US…

In an interview with CNET News.com, Mozilla chair Mitch Kapor urged caution about issuing triumphal predictions for the future of the Internet browser landscape. “The great thing that’s happened of late,” Kapor said, “is to see the early huge momentum…