News: Court backs Schwarzenegger on state worker minimum wage pay

With the financial crisis on, Gov. Schwarzenegger imposed the federal minimum wage on all of California's state workers. And today, the court backed him up.

News: UK airline Ryanair testing standing-only seats

Oh good god. What the hell, Ryanair? What the hell? Oh...and they're going to charge to use the lavatory too. Awesome.

News: Microsoft gives up on Kin

News: Electronics group HDbaseT release spec to compete with HDMI

Very cool. Audio, video, ethernet, and maybe even power through a single cable. The best part? You already have said cable. It's your basic ethernet cord, CAT5!!! This...might get interesting.

News: Sen. Klobuchar (D-MN) asks SCOTUS nom. Kagan about Twilight

At least her honor has the respect to hope to avoid the subject...on national TV.

Why are there so many examples of the female representatives to Congress from Minnesota being just bat$#!7 crazy? Bachmann, now Klobuchar?

Come ON! Twilight? In an vetting of a SUPREME COURT NOMINEE! Just stop it. Seriously.

Op-Ed: Elian Gonzalez happy he ended up in Cuba

Good for him, I guess.

News: Woot...bought...by Amazon

...I...I....I know. I'm worried, too. But, Zappos is doing fine. Maybe Woot! will too? Here's hoping.

News: Larry King to end CNN show run this fall after 25 years

News: Cisco announces 7-in, dual camera, business-oriented tablet

Pretty nifty. I wouldn't mind one. I love the idea of a Jetson phone I can carry around. Let's do this.

SCOTUS: Bilski Patent case thrown out, software patent test set

Much analysis is to be done. HUGE decision for software. More analysis sure to come.

Obit: Sen. Byrd (D-WV), longest serving senator in US history, 92

News: Boxer Pacquiao sworn in to Philippino Congress

Op-Ed: iPhone 4 may move teens from sexting to sexviding

Oh.....good.

News: Tickets for London 2012 Olympics sold only via Visa

Yeah. You can't use an American Express or Mastercard. Visa ONLY. Wierd....

I mean, the US Open is sponsored by American Express and they let you buy with VMEHMMMEHME (Ed note: Author was mugged while talking by Visa card holding US Open fans before he could finish that thought).

News: ICANN approve dot-XXX top-level domain; long process awaits

Not soon by any means, site endings in .xxx are on the horizon. The biggest question is: is it possible to enforce that all pornographic sites by hosted by the new .xxx domain? If it is possible, or at least close to possible, it will be that much easier to help parents block such content from children's access.