The shooter's last text message ended with a sad face emoticon.

One more bit of evidence of what expression in the form of emoticon really means. "Jake was never the violent type. He didn't go o...

"A series of shocking text messages purportedly show Philip Frank, the partner of Democratic State Representative and Madison-area Congressional candidate Mark Pocan..."

"... threatened a volunteer for Pocan’s Republican opponent days before the volunteer was found beaten. Last Wednesday, Kyle Wood, a fu...

"There's a special place in purgatory reserved for scientists who make bold claims based on tiny effects of uncertain origin..."

"... and an extra-long sentence is imposed on those who also keep their data secret, publishing only hard-to-interpret summaries of sta...

Suddenly, the problem is supposed to be that people are reading and writing too much.

MIT psych prof Sherry Turkle frets about "The Flight From Conversation": At home, families sit together, texting and reading e-mai...

"The government will be able to monitor the calls, emails, texts and website visits of everyone..."

"... in the UK under new legislation set to be announced soon. Internet firms will be required to give intelligence agency GCHQ access ...

Texting...

... bride.

"Domestic abusers to wear GPS tracking ankle bracelets that text message victims on whereabouts..."

A new program on Staten Island — called Domestic Violence GPS Initiative — operated by a security firm in Atlanta. It will begin by attachi...

"I received a text on my iPhone on the morning of October 6 that said, 'ᎣᏏᏲ, ᎩᎾᎵ.'"

"It’s a simple Cherokee greeting, akin to “Hello, friend” in English.  It’s pronounced 'oh-see-yo, gee-na-lee.'  It may not see...

"In USA Magnited States of America, where you are FREE to TEXT in a THE-A-TER!"

Funny, but bad language....

Auto-correct hilarity.

The Frisky picked out 10 great examples from Damn You Auto Correct . (Via Instapundit .) They had me screaming in hysterics with tears runn...

"If Brett Favre's penis could talk, what would it say?"... well, Bill Maher made it say something about Sarah Palin.

I laughed and yelled at Bill Maher when I heard this : I'm sure that, being a political comedian, Maher is perfectly happy that he was c...

Encouraging students and professors to communicate by texting.

Georgia Gwinnett College is spending $1000 per professor to pay for smart phones for professors who are supposed to respond to student text...

"Splitless and factbound."

I.e. , not certworthy, but the the Supreme Court took cert in the text messaging called Quon.

Can Obama count on a big turnout of youth voters to give him the winning edge? I think not.

And I'll tell you exactly why. But first, look at this Slate article on the "youth vote." ("Youth vote" is a silly ...

Sending his text message at 3 a.m. — the time Hillary made emblematic — Obama picks Biden.

Here 's the NYT report. I didn't stay up all night waiting to see the long-withheld news. Did you? I woke up naturally, and Obama...

Multitasking.

Despite its amazingness, the brain cannot concentrate on more than one thing at a time. Does this mean you shouldn't multitask ? Does i...

The "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" case.

Everyone's going to want to talk about the new Supreme Court case , because it's amusing to say "Bong Hits 4 Jesus." Oh, m...

"The Apprentice."

The task is to get people in the street to send text messages, as many as possible, but it's also supposed to be a promotion of that new...