Enik Rising

Susan Schulten has a typically awesome piece up in the New York Times about the use of the telegraph during the Civil War. Being able to c...

My university is finally, after four long years, buying me a new Mac. They'll give me the bare-bones Macbook Pro, but I can pay for upgr...

If you have an iPhone and plan to watch President Obama's State of the Union Address next week, please download this app . (via Charli C...

Me: "Play Bruce Springsteen." iPhone: "Now playing songs by Sting." Dammit, iPhone, are you just going to play anyone...

Greg Combs , a recent PhD from UT Dallas (and fellow Sleestak fan), has assembled one of the coolest political iPhone apps I've ever see...

While we're on the subject of social networking technology, I had much higher hopes for Olivia Newton-John's Twitter feed .

Republicans currently make up about 40 percent of the U.S. House of Representatives.  But you wouldn't know that from their Twitter pres...