This article on Yahoo! News–courtesy of PCWorld.com–provides 10 facts and myths about keeping your computer in good working condition. In my opinion, the most useful is the last–be sure you’ve completely wiped out all your personal files before selling or giving away an old computer....

Here’s a better reason than trumped-up concerns over terrorism to oppose the sale of some shipping operations at six US ports to a firm in Dubai: the parent company of Dubai Ports World–Ports, Customs and Free Zone Corporation–participates in an Arab boycott of Israel, disallowing any...

But first, one last unorthodox Olympic note. During the closing ceremonies on Sunday night, a man wearing a T-shirt with the name of an online casino managed to get up onto the stage beside the Italian Olympic chairman. This is partly amusing, but also rather annoying. The casino that hired him has...

. . . is how Nathan Gotsch described being the editor of the Indiana Blog Review, which I find to be ridiculously flattering, as I am the latest arbiter of what’s noteworthy in the Hoosier blogosphere. I fully expect some constructive criticism, so stop by and let me know what I’m missing.

I’d like to start off this update by asking what’s the deal with the medals the winners are getting this year in Torino. Do they get 5000 free hours of AOL with these things? Anyway, here are the top 10. Canada vaulted ahead of Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Cuba to break into the...

Paul Musgrave Dot Com (PMDC) is wrapping up its existence, at least as a blog. Musgrave’s blog has the distinction of being the first Indiana blog and consistently produces some of the best material the internet has to offer. He is a writing pioneer not only state-wide, but nationally. Rather than...

Here’s a little online game for politics junkies: Senate Seeker. My brother introduced me to it a couple months ago. Here you create a fake candidate and run him or her for House or Senate. Elections are held every Thursday night. If you win a Senate seat, you get to propose bills and vote on...

In a recent syndicated column, Jay Ambrose makes some good points about the anti-Bush rhetoric coming from some commentators on the left. The column centers on the case of James Hansen, a NASA scientist who recently sparked outrage in liberal circles by claiming the Bush administration was trying to...

According to ESPN.com, “Knight School“–a reality TV program in which former Indiana University men’s basketball coach Bob Knight gives 32 students the chance to compete for one walk-on position on the Texas Tech team he now coaches–began airing on Sunday. The latest installment...

Harvard University president Lawrence H. Summers resigned yesterday afternoon and will be replaced, on an interim basis, by Derek C. Bok, who was president of Harvard from 1971 to 1991. In public letter Summers wrote, “I have reluctantly concluded that the rifts between me and segments of the arts-and-sciences...