Nothing says "Holiday" better than the rich a capella sound of 72 Christians, four Jews and an atheist. Under the direction of Dr. Greg Lyne, Voices in Harmony will perform a variety of traditional seasonal works including "It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" (Pola and Wyle) , "Hallel ... Read more

For years I've felt quite alone in my opinion that Malcolm Gladwell is a fake (merely one rung above Victoria Knight-McDowell and Kevin Trudeau , and only because Gladwell probably believes his own claptrap). After all, he sells a gazillion books, and speaks at TED (although Karen Amrstr ... ... Read more

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Okay, so zombies, bikinis and bombs aren't new to the App Store, but together in one app?? This morning's release of Attack of the Zombie Bikini Babes from Outer Space (with original soundtrack!) makes me proud to be a shareholder in Smort . Mashable calls it "hilarious... very addict ... Re ... Read more

My chorus Voices in Harmony will be performing tomorrow night 8pm at the Gallo Center in Modesto ( get tickets ). Joining us will be the River Lights Chorus , with their salute to Elvis. We're also performing with the Santa Clara Chorale next Saturday night 7:30pm at Mission Santa Clara o ... Re ... Read more

Okay, sometimes bad ideas just slink away on their own, but a reckless, poorly researched Wall Street Journal column has attracted enough tweetness to keep the bad meme recirculating. As much as I fear the wrath of Wall Street Journalists, I simply can't let this go uncorrected. Earlier this week ... Read more

This week Dr. Richard Dawkins , the pre-eminent evolutionary scientist of our age, visited Menlo Park for the third time . He addressed a mandatory assembly of the Menlo School (!) and then Daniel Mendez and I co-hosted a fundraiser for the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Science and Reason , ... Read more

From Radicati's newly published report on hosted email services: Nice work, guys! ... Read the full post ... Read more

When my father recently retired his old laptop, he realized that many years of financial records and other private data have proliferated all the dark nooks and crannies of his hard drive. So this weekend he charged my son with the task of physically encrypting his drive using the Sledgehammer Algor ... Read more

MIT Professor and Turing Award Winner Ron Rivest knows a thing or two about security. He invented the RC2, RC4, and RC5 symmetric key encryption algorithms (RC=Rivest Cipher), as well as the MD2, MD4 and MD5 hashing algorithms. He's also the R in RSA, so I got to know him when Jim Bidzos and I ... Read more