Billings Gazette releases an iPhone app
The Billings Gazette has released its iPhone app, called simply “Billings Gazette.” It’s a free app available in the iTunes Store. The app has four… Read More »Billings Gazette releases an iPhone app
Michael Becker
Michael Becker is the Web Editor of the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. He has been a blogger and professional journalist since 2005, covering subjects ranging from nonprofits and crime to engineering and technology.
Digital copier hard drives tell secrets of past owners
CBS News has an interesting report this morning. It seems that most copiers made since 2002 have hard drives, and those hard drives store images of most of the documents run through the copier.
Bresnan’s owners may be looking to sell
The major owners of Bresnan Communications may be looking to sell the company, the Billings Gazette reports. Rhode Island-based Providence Equity Partners and Quadrangle Group… Read More »Bresnan’s owners may be looking to sell
What do Americans recycle?
What is the most-recycled product in the United States? Office paper? Aluminum cans? Good guesses, but wrong, says Scientific American. It’s actually lead-acid car batteries;… Read More »What do Americans recycle?
Websites and state abbreviations: Notes on AP Style
This may be a bit “inside baseball,” but it affects to a small degree the text you see in the Chronicle, both in print and online.
SimCity evil genius constructs megalopolis worthy of a Matrix sequel
This is, quite frankly, scary. This fellow spent three years and a lot of graph paper designing the “optimal” SimCity 3000 city. He used an advanced grid and zoning layout to achieve a perverted sort of urban planning perfection. The result: a simulated city with a population of more than 6 million Sims — a higher population than Hong Kong.
How to cook bacon
In the spirit of hunger-inducing random posts, I offer to you the following: Now, that is not to say that this is the only way… Read More »How to cook bacon
So much meat, there isn’t room for a bun
The Awl has what they’re calling the “definitive” review of KFC’s new super-meat sandwich, the Double Down. I’m not going to debate them on the adjective. Anyone who can write that seriously about a sandwich that had to have started out as a joke suggestion in a KFC boardroom can keep their “definitive” label.
The day Albert Einstein died
Life magazine has published these images, taken by photographer Ralph Morse shortly after Albert Einstein’s death on April 18, 1955. From the notes accompanying the… Read More »The day Albert Einstein died
Google and HP looking to print from anywhere and from any device
One of the biggest wrinkles in plans to move computing “into the cloud” has been how to get computer files back down to earth by… Read More »Google and HP looking to print from anywhere and from any device