Never say never, but this may be the first blog ever posted live from the monumental earthwork on the edge of the Great Salt Lake called Spiral Jetty.

The victim, a 26-year-old woman, is in serious but stable condition with a wound to the shoulder. Some media outlets are reporting robbery as the motive, but police say it's too early to tell.

I'm not sure how many farmers and ranchers read these posts, but certainly I can claim some rural business owners among my readers. So, if you are in a rural area of the United States AND you are a small business with fewer than 15 employees, you have until July 31, 2009, to apply for the USDA Rural Energy for America Program (REAP). The grants can be used to cover 25 percent of the total installed cost of a small wind turbine system, or another renewable energy system for that matter. They can be used in conjunction with the Federal Investment Tax Credit that applies to renewable energy technology investments. Caution, in the information I'm reading about this program, it...

Hacker who originally unlocked the iPhone has let loose a jailbreaking app for the iPhone 3GS ahead of the iPhone dev team. For now, it's Windows-only, but a Mac version is supposedly on the way.

An Archos 5 media tablet, a Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse combo, and a refurbished Apple iPod. Here are your daily deals for Friday, July 3, straight from the Gadget Gal: 1. Amazon's deal of the day is the Archos 5 250 GB Internet Media Tablet. Originally selling for $449.99, you can get the Archos for $279.99 today. It has a high-resolution 4.8-inch TFT LCD touchscreen, can play up to 22 hours of music or seven hours of video on a single charge, and can hold up to 300 movies, 2.5 million photos, or 145,000 songs. [read the review] [find the deal] 2.Get the Logitech Wireless Desktop EX 110 Keyboard & Mouse Combo for just $18.99 after coupon code logi_ex110_7109....

Three just-published patent applications hint at the company's future plans. But it could be a while before we see any of the functionality built into iPhones or other Apple devices.

BEA headlines Oracle FusionFest; Next year, Sun?

Oracle largely stuck to the previously announced roadmap for convergence of BEA products, with the only major surprises being in the details.

Obviously, this isn't true. Their underlying architectures are quite a bit different, Gnome looks different than the 7 UI, etc., but to an average 17-year-old, there just wasn't any meaningful difference between the two operating systems. The other day, I posted a blog titled "Windows 7: Good enough to pay for?" I described how I'd installed the Windows 7 Release Candidate on my son's computer for his take on the OS after living with Ubuntu 9.04 (and 8.10 before that) for a few months. It's summer break, so he basically spends every waking moment when he's not actually interacting face-to-face with friends on the computer. No better time to have a kid do some serious testing, right? I asked him...

At the U.S. Army's Dugway Proving Grounds facility in the Utah desert, researchers look for ways to protect soldiers against "bugs" that could easily kill or sideline them.