Outside the Beltway

Those images on your Facebook page may come back to haunt you if you decide to run for office someday.

Perhaps the dumbest study ever published in the Lancet compares the negative effects of alcohol and illicit drugs without controlling for incidence.

Too many copyright owners are stupidly invoking their rights to keep short clips off of YouTube and other services, losing potential customers in the process.

Thanks to a combination of good intelligence and fast action, it looks like the U.S. and UK avoided a serious attack on airliners last week.

The growing number of cell-phone-only households gives Democrats hope that the polls are undercounting them.

The Pentagon is looking at a system that would flag suspicious access to data, similar to the alerts by credit cards companies designed to prevent fraudulent charges.

Charles Murray argues that the Tea Party is right to complain about out-of-touch elites.

The next generation of the Windows operating system is about two years away. Does anyone care?

New multifunction credit cards will soon change the way Americans handle simple transactions.

Apparently Juan Williams is really, really, really important.

Will Digital Video Recorders kill the campaign commercial? Unfortunately, no.

Lots of jobs that existed in recent memory — secretaries, travel agents, gas station attendants, cashiers — have been replaced by technology. The middle class may be disappearing with them.

Once the province of science fiction, a car that can drive itself is now a reality, thanks to Google and DARPA. The implications are mind boggling.

InstaPaper’s business model is stealing content created by others, stripping it of the ads that pay the creators, and running their own advertising on it.

If Mark Zuckerberg hadn’t invented Facebook someone else would have. Probably within a month or two of his invention.

Thirty-two years after the first “Test Tube Baby” was born, the doctor who pioneered the procedure that created her has been recognized with a Nobel Prize.

They might not be able to fix the economy or the healthcare system or agree on an efficient tax policy but Congress has managed to reach accord on one of the most serious problems facing America: loud television commercials.

Has modern life robbed America’s youth of their ability to think? Or simply caused them to think in different ways about different things?

In news that will no doubt please the estimable Glenn Reynolds, DARPA has taken a big step toward the long-awaited flying car: Flying Humvees

Three lives intersected last week at Rutgers University, but one person didn’t make it out alive.

Business is booming for box sets of 1960s acts remastered into the original mono.

A new study suggests that laws banning texting while driving don’t actually have any impact on accident rates.

An amusing parody of the typical press report on a new scientific finding.

If the Obama Administration gets it’s way, your secure Internet communications won’t really be all that secure.

Thanks to the Internet, there are a lot more Willy Lomans out there.

Facebook’s 26-year-old founder, Mark Zuckerberg, is one of the wealthiest men in America. Most of his work force is unpaid.

Blockbuster is trying to reorganize itself, but it’s probably too late.

Can OTB build a better $500 computer than PC World? Let’s find out…

Why do innocent people confess to crimes they didn’t commit, and what should we do about it ?

Is our problem that the very rich have too much money? Or that the rest of us don’t have enough?

Has the digitization of entertainment — DVRs, iPods, iPods, digital cameras, Netflix, and so forth — transformed it from fun into work?

The Washington Post’s Jonathan Capehart is suffering a little New Media embarrassment after writing a blog post based on comments by a Congressman who doesn’t exist.

What’s the deal with iTunes?

The world’s smartest scientist says there is no god. Or, at least, no need for one.

Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has proclaimed, “The most significant threat to our national security is our debt.” Is he right?