5 posts and columns on Oklahoma

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Oklahoma Abortion Law's Online-Publication Rules Come Under Fire

in News on October 13, 2009 at 8:47 am PT

A new Oklahoma law that will allow the state to publish detailed information about abortion patients online has created uproar from critics who view it as a blow to women’s rights and is providing the latest fodder in the debate over online-data privacy.

10 CAR PILE-UP! ROTFL!

in News on May 22, 2009 at 7:50 am PT

It’s no surprise to hear that one in four Americans drives like an idiot, but to learn that a similar percentage truly are idiots, well… I guess that’s not really a surprise either. After all, you’d have to be pretty dim to text while driving, a practice that widespread research and more than a few fatal accidents have proven to be a dangerous distraction.
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My iKid iJacked My iPhone: A Geek Parenting Tragedy

in News on April 8, 2009 at 3:43 am PT

BoomTown is not proud of the problem. Not at all. But, after hearing the same situation described over and over again from many other parents like me, I am also not alone. As it turns out, our almost-seven-year-old son, Louie, has morphed into an iJacker. That would be of my iPhone and the many, many, many games apps to be played on it–from Crazy Penguin Catapult to Finger Sprint to Super Monkey Ball. And, good lord, how did a “Race to Witch Mountain” app get on there? So, I don’t need any stats to tell me that the iPhone, and the iPod touch too, have turned into gaming devices of great impact.
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Google Gets Into the Paper (Mill) Business

in Media on February 12, 2009 at 4:14 am PT

Yes, there’s an obvious irony in Google’s plans to turn an obsolete Finnish paper mill into a data center. But there’s more meaningful symbolism here, too: Google’s growth plans aren’t going anywhere.

Mark Cuban Wants to Know if You’re Ready for Some Football in 3-D

in Media on January 9, 2009 at 10:51 am PT

The billionaire investor and whole lot of other people are betting that people are willing to spend money to watch stuff in theaters that they could see for free–if its in 3-D. The technology behind that proposition got a real-time test yesterday during the Oklahoma/Florida college championship game.