Last week, Google announced plans to bring ultra-fast broadband service to a small number of trial locations across the country.  What could that mean for Long Beach?  Well, it’s anybody’s guess, but Councilman Robert Garcia is excited, and it sounds like we should be, too.  So at Tuesday’s City Council meeting, Garcia will officially request [...]

How big was Mayor Bob Foster’s announcement Tuesday at his State of the City address that Long Beach will be the host city for the 2009 TED Conference? Not too. The annual gathering is by invitation only, and organizers only send out 1,000 invitations.
But how important was Foster’s announcement? Pretty darn — which I learned a [...]

This is month-old news, but it’s pretty important/interesting to those of us who are either nerds who fear the government and/or pedophiles. According to this news.com article (via boingboing)
“U.S. Magistrate Judge Jerome Niedermeier ruled that a man charged with transporting child pornography on his laptop across the Canadian border has a Fifth Amendment right not [...]

The city of Cerritos apparently still has faith in the holidays, hosting a page on its website for local kids to e-mail Santa–he wants to know your favorite cookie, movie and most-wanted present. But type fast because the site also explains that “This page will magically disappear at 5PM on December 17th.” Of course, we’re [...]

While votes go down the tubes
The average American will flush a toilet approximately 140,000 times in his or her lifetime. That stat comes up in a Sacramento Bee story on new regulations on water use in toilets– apparently everyone from greens to plumbers to the governor is happy about the new regs, and the [...]

In the future, your Nissan may be watching you

For some people, their relationship with their car is one of the happiest and least stressful relationships in their lives. Perhaps thats because the car can’t talk back, and never nags. Well, thanks to Japanese engineers, that may be about to change.