by Minter Dial | Apr 9, 2008 | WWII
Today marks the 66th anniversary of the Fall of Bataan, where on April 9, 1942, General Edward King surrendered the peninsula of Bataan in the Philippines along with approximately 76,000 soldiers (of which 11,796 American men) to the Japanese (who had 54,000 men...
by Minter Dial | Apr 1, 2008 | Podcast, Politics
Herewith, the good news for those of you who bought Leopard for your Apple Computer(s) in order to get the parental controls system. It turns out that the issue is that it doesn’t work well with Mozilla Firefox. But, it does work with Safari… So, in the...
by Minter Dial | Mar 31, 2008 | Entertainment
And this I, too, believe… As part of All Things Considered, NPR and Jay Allison have (re-)created a “This I believe” segment, based on a 1950s radio program of the same name that was hosted by acclaimed journalist Edward R. Murrow. The purpose of the show is to...
by Minter Dial | Mar 30, 2008 | Marketing
The issue of privacy continues to dominate the offline discussion on Facebook. NPR’s Talk of the Nation, Science Friday, 21 March 2008, featured a special on Facebook, and the big privacy question. Hosted by Ira Flatow, the show featured Daniel Weitzner (WWW...
by Minter Dial | Mar 30, 2008 | Environment, New Tech
WWF (World Wildlife Foundation) began the Earth Hour — lights out for an hour — in 2007 in Sydney Australia. The notion is that between 8-9pm in your time zone wherever you are in the world, everyone is to turn off their lights (or at least make some...