Coffee, Code and Candor

Two days ago I wrote about multinational corporations lobbying the government to influence laws and policy. I stated that we know there are billions of dollars spent lobbying the government every year. Today I will provide evidence of that statement.
The Lobbying Spending Database contains statistics on the dollars spent yearly lobbying Congress and […]

The FDA today in a draft risk assessment found that food from cloned cattle, pigs and goats is as safe to eat as the food we eat every day from conventionally bred animals. This is a big step towards the FDA outright approving the practice and permitting cloned food on the commercial US market […]

The Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI) is a robust set of JavaScript controls and utilities for building interactive web applications. The library is released under the BSD license so it is free for use in all kinds of applications. Some of the available utilities include drag and drop, eventing, animation and a connection […]

I never drank coffee growing up, even after reaching the age when it becomes acceptable to drink coffee (whatever age that is). I didn’t drink it when I went to school and I didn’t drink it when I started working after graduation. The exception was that every now and again I might shell […]