The King of Pop Passes Away – Everything Else Stops?
photo credit: Current News Stories
The American media in particular takes a lot of flak about it’s worship of celebrities when the rest of the world is just as obsessed (I’m thinking in particular of the tabloid journalists in the UK and their constant hounding of royalty, Lily Allen, etc). When Twitter is the most [...]
Reverting to a Cash Society
photo credit: TheTruthAbout…
A lot of interesting things have happened in the past several months as people from all walks of life learn how to stretch their money. A lot of changes have been accelerated by the fuel shocks during the summer of 2008; in a lot of ways we seem to be reverting to [...]
Google Cuts Emissions Using Goats
photo credit: Ivy Dawned
Rather than have their regular maintenance crew come by and clean up their lawn, Google has decided to employ an army of goats instead. No kidding (a-hem). The goats will eat and then fertilize the grass, and not use an ounce of gasoline to do so.
PETA was reached for comment – [...]
Britain’s Only Wind Turbine Plant Closes
photo credit: Caveman 92223
Wind turbines have been in the news quite a lot lately. They seem like the ideal power generator – they don’t destroy water systems, they don’t generate pollution and they can be installed basically anywhere. Offshore wind farms are sometimes seen the solution for meeting North America’s electricity demands without requiring [...]
Venture Capitalists are Crashing the Party
Apparantly venture capitalists are considered part of the larger economic problem, posing a significant risk to the stability of the financial system; even though the average VC doesn’t use debt and draws its funds from wealthy investors (e.g. the way companies are supposed to work. Conspiracy theory: maybe this re-arrangement is the beginning of the [...]
The Fastest Way Out of Debt
photo credit: mangpages
Suppose you find yourself in this all-too-common situation: multiple credit cards (perhaps maxed) and loans, recently unemployed or perhaps just barely employed. Every last dime you make goes toward paying the minimum balance on your bills and feeding your family – more often than not you run out of money before you [...]
German Company Turns Cellphones into Gold
photo credit: covilha
Despite campaigns encouraging people to recycle their used cellular phones, most end up in landfills. In Germany, that amounts to 24 million phones per year – almost 1 for every 3 people. Aside from the obvious environmental harm caused by deteriorating batteries and plastic, the phones represent a significant economical waste – [...]
Angry Monkey Planned to Hurt Zoo Visitors
photo credit: ianduffy
Scientists are abuzz about the implications of recent actions by Santino, an alpha male chimpanzee at the Furuvik Zoo north of Stockholm. Santino, agitated by crowds of zoo visitors pointing and laughing at him during the day, created caches of weapons – rocks and cement discs – which he would use to [...]
Unabashed, Sony defends PS3
photo credit: craigmdennis
Today’s gaming market is split four ways:
1. PC Gaming – Where pirated copies of games outnumber the legimite. Home of the “hardcore” gamer. Dead simple to create games for, since most programmers begin their careers on this platform.
2. XBox 360 – Where PC Game studios make their money thanks to DirectX. This [...]
Atlantis Still Lost
photo credit: Webb Zahn
In case anyone was wondering, Google didn’t actually find the lost city of Atlantis. The lines found off the coast of Africa were not submerged city blocks (which would have been 8 miles long!), but in fact “ship tracks” caused by sonar surveys.
The oceans are the last “real” frontier – we [...]
