News: New pope from Latin America

Obit: Pres. Hugo Chavez dead at 58

News: Phone maker LG buys WebOS (Palm's dead system) from HP

Hey! That's interesting. I'll be happy if they revive it. It was a good system.

News: Qualcomm puts all major cell carrier radio on one chip

Means that phone makers (including Apple, Samsung, and Google/Motorola) can make a single phone that works on all the carriers (Verizon, TMobile, ATT, Spring) networks.

News: Qualcomm puts all major cell carrier radio on one chip

Means that phone makers (including Apple, Samsung, and Google/Motorola) can make a single phone that works on all the carriers (Verizon, TMobile, ATT, Spring) networks.

Cool: U.S. redrawn with 50 equally populated states

Kinda neat.

Neat: Guy build tool to build comic strips (ala XKCD)

Interesting premise. Maybe I'll look at it when I find the time....

Comic: XKCD 1/13/13

Cool: Take my love, take my land...

Ahhh, Serenity.

News: Pope to resign at the end of the month

Citing health and old age. Wasn't he already old? Was he hoping to have a short stint and take the long box out? Now it's gone on too long and feel guilty about having the job? Odd.

News: Pepsi to release 'Kick Start', Mountain Dew-fruit juice mix

...excellent. I will try this. Well played, Pepsi.

News: End of Saturday mail delivery set for August 5th

I was wondering when it would happen.

News: Consumer Electronics Show ditches CNET after CBS scandal

From the article: The once beloved and suddenly beleaguered tech-review site CNET will no longer select the official Best in Show awards at the Consumer Electronics Show because of its ethically questionable situation with parent company CBS, which censored CNET's top award at CES and subsequently invented a conflict-of-interest policy based solely on the interests of CBS.

News: Consumer Electronics Show ditches CNET after CBS scandal

From the article: The once beloved and suddenly beleaguered tech-review site CNET will no longer select the official Best in Show awards at the Consumer Electronics Show because of its ethically questionable situation with parent company CBS, which censored CNET's top award at CES and subsequently invented a conflict-of-interest policy based solely on the interests of CBS.

Comic: Penny Arcade 1/30/13

Vine, the newest internet short-life-publication thing, has an actually interesting overseer.