A New Year’s Wish List

Java and Open Source

In November, Sun Microsystems moved to "open source" status for Java, after a decade of maintaining proprietary status for the portable programming language.

AOL Poll: Heroes And Villains

Not many times in American politics or history do you have a person on both a hero's list and a villain's list. In a new poll from the Associated Press and America Online News President George W. Bush is top of the list for being both a hero and a villain in 2006.

Google Defends “Meaningless” Zeitgeist

When Google put out its year-end Zeitgeist, an account of the hottest searches in 2006, bloggers immediately felt the list's creators were fudging it a little for decency's sake. Google responded on its blog saying the list was edited to save us from the boredom of constants and givens.