50 Cent, the rapper, is an interesting character, who actually supports President George W. Bush. He may have only actually been shot, three times, not nine.
Is gangster rap good for the economy, and does it help fight poverty through the trickle down effect? Maybe.
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Middle men exist to be provide services, and be annoying. Now the Internet is transforming the real estate industry.
What industry will the net effect next?
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Microsoft says its experience in building platforms, ability to deliver ‘compelling’ user interface ‘experiences’, partnerships with developers, & ‘thousands and thousands and thousands’ of partners mean it will unleash a ‘disruptive’ change on the industry, despite coming shockingly late to the internet, search, and software as a service.
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Google is scheduled to announce hosting for open source projects on Google Code today during Greg Stein’s talk at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON). Can we say Sourceforge?
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The Underground Blogosphere is an intricate web of hundreds of thousands of emails that bloggers send to each other every day, pitching each other’s stories, seeking feedback and traffic.
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Here are a ton of tutorials (and links to resources) on getting starting with making electronics projects
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Even as consumers shift more and more of their daily tasks and chores to the Web, one famous form of online communication is losing its luster.
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Understanding the financial health of a company is essential to prudent investment. If you want to understand a company’s financial health, it’s important to be able to make sense of its balance sheet. Consider the ubiquitous coffee purveyor Starbucks.
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The West is running out of diplomatic options. It is becoming clear that the radical Islamic terrorists don’t want peace. If terrorist regimes don’t turn to peace soon, they may feel the real unforgiving wrath of western military might in a conventional war, without compassion or nation building.
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With the ease of installation, maintenance, and use of many recent Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu and Fedora, some are left wondering why Linux still isn’t more widespread. Here’s my theory. First, the home computer. People at home generally want to use an OS compatible with what they use at work. Linux isn’t at work, so it isn’t at home.
Linux also needs much better media and hardware support. If you could install Ubuntu and not have to fuss with video, sound or hardware settings, it would really take off.
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“Peace” movements are among those who take advantage of a widespread inability to see beyond rhetoric to realities. Few people even seem interested in the actual track record of so-called “peace” movements — that is, whether such movements actually produce peace or war.
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Imagine a nuclear industry that can power America for decades using its own radioactive garbage, burning up the parts of today’s reactor wastes that are the hardest to dispose of. Add technology that takes nuclear chaff, uranium that was mined and processed but was mostly unusable, and converts it to still more fuel.
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