I never understood the appeal of Twitter — until last week. I suddenly had a “Twitpiphany,” and now have become a rabid, enthusiastic user. Of course, you can send “tweets” — Twitter posts — from a cell phone (and read them, too). But a newish online site magnifies that by 20. One Twitter post, and your no…

A woman named Jennifer Reisinger claims the Sheboygan, Milwaukee, city attorney ordered her to remove urls to the city’s police agency web site from her personal site. She believes the order was motivated by her support of a previous recall of the mayor. She additionally claims the city launched a criminal inspection into her alleged web link…

The small town of Louisville, Nebraska, offers free Wi-Fi all through the downtown area. A business coalition wants to put a sign advertising the service on the main highway as a way to attract users — and business. But the state has been fighting them for a year. All of that raises the question: Why not add Wi-Fi to the general services list…

A guy in Japan puts the work back into vacuuming by modding his Roomba robot vacuum cleaner to be controlled by a Wii balance board.
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Digg founder Kevin Rose Twittered and blogged that Digg has launched a new feature that enables Digg users to pose questions directly to famous folks chosen by Digg, one at a instance. It’s called DIGG DIALOGG. The first target: Not-the-best-selling-author and Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi.
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I told you in July that Johnny Depp was being recruited to play the Riddler in the next Batman movie. That same movie could feature 62-year-old CHER AS CATWOMAN.
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A company called NOR_/D (a self-described “research and development studio… in the area of art, architecture, and system design.”) is now selling an inexpensive development kit for building Apple iPhone-like or Microsoft Surface-like multi-touch applications. The kit includes a FULL-SIZE TOUCH SCREEN and is for anyone with C++ sk…