Outside the Beltway

Hard as it is to believe, it’s been two decades since Tim Berners-Lee published the first website. They look a wee bit different these days.

Donald Rumsfeld famously worked standing up. He was on to something.

While the pace of modern life is in many ways faster than ever, the golden age of speed was decades ago.

Zsa Zsa Gabor’s 67-year-old husband says he and the 94-year-old actress are seeking to have a child through a surrogate.

The Japan nuclear meltdown has now topped the scale used to measure such things, reaching the same level as the Chernobyl disaster. It’s a stupid scale.

The Obama Administration is resisting efforts to expand Fourth Amendment protections to services like Gmail. That’s unfortunate.

“Internet addiction” is a made-up malady.

Video entertainment is moving in two seemingly opposite directions simultaneously.

The Japanese government has announced that the Fukushima Reactor suffered a partial meltdown.

Nuclear power remains far safer than coal. The awful events in Fukushima must not spook governments outlawing atomic energy.

Obama is visiting Brazil and Chile while American fighting men join the coalition against Libya.

Experts say the phone call is a relic of the past.

Lawyers in US court case spent ten pages of transcript arguing what a photocopier is. “Do you have machines where I can put in a paper document, push a button or two, and out will come copies of that paper document, also on paper?”

Evolution is falsifiable and biology is a science. Economics might be.

Earth’s moon will seem bigger Saturday night than it has since 1993. It’ll still be the same size as usual, however.

Will one of the worst natural disasters to hit Japan in centuries change the relationship between the Japanese government and the people?

Add this to the list of things for parents to worry about: Car safety seats for children over 65 pounds are not adequately tested.

Automated programs are getting very good at poker and are winning large sums on online gambling sites.

Archaeologists may have found the lost city of Atlantis. And, no, not the one in the Bahamas.

Overnight, we celebrate the biannual ritual of resetting all our clocks so as to save daylight. Oddly, the amount of daylight continues to heed its own rhythms.

A March 12 explosion at the earthquake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Japan, appears to have caused a reactor meltdown.

It’s understandable that the President feels defensive about gas prices, but that’s no excuse for trying to sell the public a bill of goods.

We’re heading towards a future of higher food prices and more hunger.

Gmail has introduced another feature to help people deal with inbox overload: Smart Labels.

Scientists have discovered that the Internet could be a useful collaborate tool.

James Franco is a film director, screenwriter, painter, author, performance artist and actor. And working on a PhD at Yale.

Video of “An experiment to see the effects of installing every major upgrade version of windows, in order, on the same machine.”

Americans had it so much better in the 1950s, right?

Should employers be allowed to ask for your Facebook login as a condition of employment?

Facebook has come up with new settings to meet the needs of users in same-sex relationships.

Is social media killing electronic mail?

IBM’s Watson computer crushed human competitors on Jeopardy. What does it mean?

Dave Fleet offers 5 TIPS FOR MANAGING THE EMAIL DELUGE.