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Despite often being a waste of time, Twitter does has value, such as providing Iranians with an outlet during this past summer's elections. Turns out Twitter can be used to keep you apprised of more domestic developments as well.

This video demonstrates how an enterprising hacker created a Twitter account for his washing machine. When a load of laundry is done, the machine's Twitter account is updated to reflect this completed status.

The television show 24 stars Jack Bauer as a modern-day MacGyver, using whatever means at his disposal to keep the country safe from terrorists. But what if Bauer and his team had existed 15 years ago — would they be nearly as effective with the technology of 1994?

We've previously seen video games brought to life by college students and marching bands. There's an inherent geekiness to those populations, though. What if the rough and tumble crowd of street skaters took up the same mission — what would that look like?

While I was busy building an Apple-1, other geeks attending the same retrocomputing convention were busy amusing themselves with other creations.

There's a lot of old technology lying around out there — printers, oscilloscopes, and all sorts of contraptions from back when computers actually had moving parts.

Ever wonder what happens to them when nobody's watching?

Awhile back, Computerworld ran a column in which the author suggested that "Renegotiating contracts so they're less favorable to vendors need not be accompanied by guilt."

If IT clients can haggle a better price with vendors, then why not regular consumers with other merchants as well? Observe when happens when the vendor-client relationship spills over into the real world:

Sometimes, the only lasting impression you leave on a business partner is your calling card. What does your card say about you? If you think you're getting the results you want -- think again.

Twitter has been enjoying plenty of press coverage lately. Is Google buying Twitter? Is Microsoft? By the time the dust settles, it'll be too late, as the Web 2.0 crowd is already moving on to the next big thing: Flutter.

Apple has made great strides toward improving the user experience with the gestures they've implemented in their iPhone and MacBook touch interfaces — but it's not enough.

Today, web browser Opera offers a truly revolutionary way to interact with the Internet:

Some of us (well, me) are afraid of artificial intelligence and the day it evolves to enslave humanity. But this holiday greeting brings me the comfort of knowing, should that day come, at least we'll still be celebrating the holidays: