Stephen Cobb's Personal Blog

People who were appalled to hear the Internet described as a system of tubes by the man in congress charged with overseeing said tubes may t...

One of the things I love about language is the emergence of new words and phrases. Recently my brother [who is more English than me, what wi...

I posted some thoughts about racism in America today over on the DNWA site. These were prompted by the case of the Jena 6 and the fact, mad...

Here's an update on the the Brother inkjet ripoff , namely the fact that: a. Cartridges are declared empty when there is still ink in th...

As a species we like to think that technology holds the answer, that technology offers advantages. But does technology offer more advantages...

As a fan of diesels--the cleaner ultra, ultra, low sulfur diesels--I thought this was an interesting article on the dieselization of Europe ...

Last month's post about guitarist Steve Donnelly [ Great Guitarists Never Die--My roomie from uni lives on ] was perhaps a little too cr...

I don't think of myself as easily impressed, so please check out this social networking site and see if you agree with me that it is awe...

January 20, 2009 is the last day that President Bush will be in office (barring any sweeping changes to, or suspension of, the Constitution)...

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has resigned . But President Mr Bush apparently thinks there was no reason for him to do so, saying Gonzal...