Widespread adoption of plug-in cars always raises questions about the reliability of the electrical grid and an incident earlier this week in San Francisco does nothing to quell those concerns.

Even though I'm a fan of electric vehicles, like the Tesla, there is no doubt in my mind that if they were to ever become mainstream we'd swap dependencies from foreign oil to the power grid. In turn power companies would undoubtedly jack up the kw/h pricing, taking us right back to where we started.

There is one advantage to electricity, though. It is easy (albeit neither efficient nor cheap) to generate your own using solar panels or the such.

A Memphis-bound plane was recalled to Sea-Tac Airport on Wednesday afternoon after a man in the terminal claimed there was a bomb onboard.
Port of Seattle police said the man missed his flight with a group of people and hoped to delay it to get onboard.

Moron.

The results are in from the great "Man vs. Machine" computer poker showdown in Vancouver, with the humans coming out on top by a narrow margin. But the main result of the exercise was mutual respect, on the part of the computer programmers as well as the poker pros.

Must be a better program than Vista's Hold 'Em.

In a moment we've been waiting for since the first time we saw The Jetsons, the first flying car has finally gone on sale. Just like the car George uses to drop off the kids, the Moller M200G Volantor is shaped like a saucer. To avoid the need to pass FAA regulations, the civilian version of the Volantor is restricted to heights of 10 feet, but can travel as fast as 50mph and fly for up to 90minutes.

Moller has been at this for years, made a lot of announcements, yet never delivered.

iPhone availability is not guaranteed at time of appointment.

Two Democratic members of the Federal Communications Commission have lent their support to an open-access wireless network proposal, giving it a majority backing, but stopped short of supporting a broader provision proposed by Google.

Why am I not surprised?