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RIAA Wins Lawsuit Against Usenet.com

The RIAA recently announced that it had won a copyright infringement suit against filesharing site Usenet.com . "In October 2007 RIAA lawyers chucked a federal lawsuit at Usenet.com, in which it claimed that the Fargo, North Dakota newsgroup service 'enables and encourages' p...

Magellan Maestro 4700 is the Navigator You are Searching For

I have just returned from a road trip, and I thought I was smart because I didn't need a GPS device for my car because I have a iPhone 3GS. Needless to say, I was lost for half of my trip, not because the iPhone didn't work, but because AT&T simply does not exist in Wyoming or South...

Another stimulus package

Last week, I did a blog entry saying that the appalling jobless figures in the United States were telling us one thing: that 19 months into this bad recession and the economic indicators are getting worse. So it's not surprising then to read Vice President Joe Biden telling George Stepha...

2010 年 F1 规则展望

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Will California drag down the United States?

California has entered the new financial year in crisis with a budget deficit of $26.3 billion, up from $24.3 billion, because of the ineptitude of the legislature in missing a deadline and political incompetence of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. The state has an unemployment rate of 11.5%, hig...

Madoff gets the max! What now?

So as expected, Bernard Madoff got the max : 150 years in the slammer for perpetrating his vile Ponzi Scheme. For his part, Madoff delivered a big apology to the victims. But interesting questions remain. Was there money laundering involved? And if so, wouldn't that make some of his vict...

Sotomayor and the Supreme Counrt

If you've been following the confirmation process of Judge Sonia Sotomayor you're probably aware of the ruling today in which the Court overturned a ruling in which Sotomayor was involved. The Right has been quick to try and make hay from the story. Some commentary: Grasping at Straws: So...

Supply chain video: Massimo Marchi on supply chain risk and innovation

... innovation in supply chain. Risks to global supply chains are increasing. In Massimo's opinion, US companies importing most of their product from Europe are particularly at risk. Rising o...

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FIA 公布 2010 年 F1 参赛名单

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Recession and marriage

It seems the recession is saving marriages. Or it might be prolonging the agony. In Britain, The Independent reports that accountants Grant Thornton have found that fewer couples are divorcing. Plummeting property prices means it's just not worth it, even if it means prolonging a bad marr...

RM Offers Rarely Seen Chrysler Airflow Coupe at Meadow Brook

It's not unusual to spot a Chrysler Airflow (or its DeSoto sibling) at an auction. Normally these would be 4-door sedans, much maligned for their unpopular "streamlined design." Often forgotten is that the Airflow was also available as a 2-door, which makes the appearance of this 19...

Blame the recession on Reagan: Paul Krugman

Some fascinating comments from Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman blaming America's economic woes on Ronald Reagan. Basically, Krugman says deregulation, the piling up of debt and the scrapping of financially prudent rules like for example limiting the ability of families to buy h...

Dell Markets Insults Directly to Women

...r lots of "stylish" laptops with plenty of "hot" designs. The language, in my opinion, is completely a slap in the face. The insults do not stop there; Dell also goes out of thei...

GM Drops Pontiac, Journalists Miss the Point

By now the entire world, or least the world that actually cares, will be aware that General Motors will soon close the lid on its long-time Pontiac marque . Note that I said "marque" not "brand," the latter being a marketing maven's method of reducing a great product to j...

Future structural changes in supply chains

Bob Ferrari of Supply Chain Matters Blog recently had a Q&A with Kinaxis which he has published on his blog (Read it here ). The topic of the discussion was around the new trends in supply chain space and the structural changes which are coming. I liked Bob's point of view a lot in th...

The Pirate Google

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Are economists to blame for the financial crisis?

How much are economists to blame for the financial crisis? Most of them, with perhaps the exception of Nouriel Roubini and Robert Shiller, failed to see the weaknesses in financial markets. They just didn't see it coming. It's hard to go past this piece in the Weekly Standard by Harvey...

Cardboard coffins and green funerals

For the environmentalist who has everything. Back-to-Earth burials, low- energy, low-emission cremations, cardboard coffins and back-to-Earth burials and scattering cremated remains in state parks are now all the rage and the market is growing. Bloomberg reports that they are now even introdu...

Tiger "Rude" at Augusta

Courtesy: The Guardian It's been four days since the dramatic conclusion to The Masters. That's plenty of time for the dust to settle and the " reflective " opinion pieces to emerge in the golf media. John Hopkins, golf writer for the esteemed Times newspaper in London, h...

Venture Capitalists' Confidence Creeps Back

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Bossnapping: it's French for industrial action

If you're a boss in France, you better pack some clean underpants when you go into work. The latest poll shows that nearly half the French population think it's fine to kidnap the boss in protests over layoffs. Now that might be just a labor tactic and very French but it does raise so...

Fergus Wins With Alpha Driver

Courtesy: golfdigest.com Heard from my buddy, Joe Simon, over at Alpha Golf today. Alpha Golf makes some of the best drivers in the world - and that's not just my humble opinion. They're used by many of the long drive pros, including last year's champion. At any rate, Joe contac...

Geithner's push for power and the law of unexpected outcomes

With Bloomberg reporting that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is moving to tighten up the rules for monster hedge funds, private- equity firms and derivatives markets, it's worth looking at what's ahead and whether we should be preparing for the law of unexpected outcomes. The pla...

Google is Getting Serious With GMail Labs

I use GMail for my personal email needs; in fact, my whole family does. If you aren't a GMail user, it is time to get with it. If you are a GMail user, then I hope you have checked out the major improvements to GMail over the past couple of weeks through the implementation of GMail Labs. Sp...

The story of the Kiva from its founder

Jessica Jackley Flannery, an MBA graduate who founded Kiva, the micro lending website has written the story of she came up with the idea of her company in Stanford Social Innovation Review (It's a bit old, from Sep. 2008, but interesting...the link is here ). She got obsessed by the idea ...

The Death of SpiralFrog

© rainforest_harley The ad-supported music service spiralfrog shut down this week, quietly and without warning... "A source close to the company told CNET News that SpiralFrog has ceased operations and assets have been surrendered to creditors," writes CNET's Greg Sandov...

Mortgage fraud and AIG

Mortgage fraud is on the rise, up 26% , and it's a serious problem. Fewer loans are being processed but there's more fraud, suggesting there is a real sickness in the system. It means people are getting more desperate. The increase in mortgage fraud is linked to other crimes like check...

Climate change deniers on the increase

Some fascinating Gallup research showing that 41% of Americans think that global warming is exaggerated (for that read, a hoax). What's fascinating here is that the numbers are on the rise. Two years ago, it was 38%. What's bringing this on? Particularly at a time like this when scie...

Argus Bean Rugged Camera Should Take a Beating

...ged Camera, probably would not have dropped, and it probably would have lived. Piece of mind, in my opinion, is worth $60. via Chip Chick ...

Detroit: a new beginning?

Last week, I did a blog entry on how the crash will reshape America's geography, starting with the observation that you can buy a good sized family home in Detroit for $7500 (that's right: seven thousand, five hundred dollars.). Now, Toby Barlow in the New York Times reckons Detroit...

Will Real-Time Change Facebook User Behavior?

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Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Is a Fine Music Player

...b browser. For a full, media driven experience, the Nokia 5800 XpresMusic is a great device. In my opinion, and for my needs, it rivals any phone currently on the market. For a cool $399, you can get...

Can VMware hold on?

We've seen Microsoft coming after them in it's own clumsy but powerful way, and various cloud-based offerings threaten the company at an even more conceptual level, but now old-school terminal services firm Citrix is coming back into the fight with a free version of XenServer and a ne...

The recession's Spam index

How bad is the recession? The latest figures from Hormel Foods , maker of Spam, tell us things are bad and getting worse. While Hormel's profit fell 8%, the data showed strong sales of Spam as consumers tighten their belts and hunker down. That took its earnings to 60 cents a share when an...

Blackwater - what's in a name?

Private military contractor (hush, let's not use the word mercenary) Blackwater is rebranding itself . Its futuristic new name is Xe (pronounced, as my American friends do, like the last letter of the alphabet). As the LA Times says, what else can you do when your employees are facing man...

Stimulus Hype: Sorting Out Keynes (Part III)

So now there's a stimulus package pretty much in place. And whatever all the Right Wingers in the blogosphere may think about it, it's based at least partly on Keynesian economic theory. Will it work? Time will tell. Bruce Bartlett (not a Bush fan), had an excellent column in Forbes late ...

First Look: Sony Vaio P Series Lifestyle PC

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Stimulus Hype: Will the Stimulus Work? (Part I)

In recent weeks I have spent a considerable amount of mental energy trying to decide what to think of the stimulus battle. It's not an easy subject to unravel. I've found a handful of interesting and informative articles that have helped shape my opinion of what should happen. But first, th...

Bank bailout failure

If nothing else, the latest events are showing us that Bush's bank bailout strategy was a complete and absolute failure. First, we had the reports last week of four banks closing in January. The year had barely started. And Obama has warned that no matter how much gets handed out, some ...

Opinion: Policies Prolonged Depression

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Barack Obama Joins List Of Presidents Hated By Fidel Castro

...Former Cuban President, fidel castro , who previously praised Barack Obama, has reversed his opinion, and criticized remarks made by Obama about Guantanamo. Castro, who no longer wields any offici...

Mobile Dating Takes Off

...t mobile dating may quickly become the next big thing . The predictions are a bit optimistic in my opinion, but the suggested growth should make startups like the UK-based Flirtomatic, MeetMoi, Pluto...

Barack Obama Says He'll End "Don't Ask Don't Tell"

Barack Obama ran on a promise of "change" and it appears that he'll make good on that promise, in a big way, shortly after he takes office. Not one to duck a big challenge, President-Elect Barack Obama has outright promised that he will abolish the "Don't Ask Don't Te...

Franklin D Roosevelt To Be Blamed If Obama's Bail Out Plans Don't Work

America's Republican Party, which received a sound thrashing in the recent election, has recovered sufficiently enough to resurrect the memory of an old foe. Franklin D. Roosevelt, "F.D.R" as he's commonly known was The Architect of "The New Deal", which was an econo...

A Beautiful Boat Tail for Our Times

... lid are an elegant throwback to earlier times and the cockpit has been trimmed to match. In my opinion, this is one of the most beautiful custom jobs of our time, reminiscent of the days when tal...

Outsourcing safely

Implicit in the conflation of agile operations with fragile support is a requirement that your users have access to services which are at once flexible and scalable and which are also efficient for your business to provide. When you put those three words together, the next thing you come to is i...

Sexiest MacBook Pro Ever Announced at Macworld 2009

MacBook Pros are downright sexy laptops. They are also, quite expensive, but in my opinion they are worth it. Today, at MacWorld 2009, Apple announced a hardware revision to the 17 inch MacBook that makes my eyes water with joy. Unfortunately, I will never be able to afford it. The new 17 inch ...

Embattled Illinois Governor Appoints Roland Burris To Complete Obama's Senate Term

Illinois Governor, Rod Blagojevich, who is mired in a scandal over President Elect Barack Obama's vacant U.S. Senate seat, has just appointed Roland Burris to the position. The appointment was viewed with surprise and skepticism for several reasons not the least of which are the small contribut...

Corporate jets nosedive

Despite the car executives, the corporate jet market is still booming, reports Associated Press with financial firms that received billions in bailout dollars still owning and operating fleets. But, as the report says, some are starting to scale back. Citigroup still has four jets and a helic...

Biofuels May be Obsolete Before We Can Make Enough to Matter - Part I

...ojects and processing plant development for the production of cellulosic biofuel. And that , in my opinion, would be a bad thing... Cellulosic biofuel (or cellulosic ethanol) is ethanol 2.0 - the ne...

Roku hits back with HD Netflix

Sorta cross posting from the digital TV weblog, but this is just as relevant here in my opinion! Netflix, while a wonderful service for the PC, has always been limited by being just that; a service for the PC. With the advent of the service on set top boxes like Roku and the xBox360, this limi...

On Tour With Condoleeza Rice

President George Bush has been on a "victory" tour of sorts as have other Administration notables such as Dick Cheney. The highlight of The President 's trip has to be the shoe throwing incident in Iraq; which easily eclipsed his attempt at trying to convince the world that his Pre...

Match Insights

// Match.com is trying extra hard to match the right people together. They've just created a new personality test as an added benefit to the rest of their services. One of the many complaints I hear from daters is that they get matched with "the wrong people." S...

Fixing broken boards

... immediately to adhere to their fiduciary responsibilities, this could happen again in 2009. In our opinion, this would not be in the best interests of free-market capitalism and the growth of the U.S...

Grippies and Food Allergies

...ista, but apart from the Spider theme, I think they lack a bit of creativity. That's just my opinion, though. If you've used these and have found them to be very useful, I'd be happy to...

Automakers heading nowhere

It must have been so humiliating but it had to happen with the automakers going cap in hand to Washington for a $25 billion bailout. And as the New York Times reports, things are not looking good with politicians suggesting it could just be like putting a band-aid on a bullet wound. This is a...

Second Life Affair Leads to Divorce in Real Life

It's becoming more and more difficult to distinguish virtual world events from real life. And as evidence of that, the big news this week is a divorce in the UK that is currently in the works. SkyNews described it this way: Amy Taylor, 28, cited unreasonable behaviour in the court papers, desc...

Inspired by Education

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Is What's New in Car Design Better Than What's Old?

Too many times over the last dozen years I've looked at new cars and thought they were less attractive than the the previous year's model. It seems I'm not alone, for The Winding Road online magazine has come up with a list of ten cars that in their opinion looked better after their ...

Rebecca Norman Jewelry

...-plated brass $77 Natural materials are the starting point for all RN designs. In Rebecca's opinion, the beauty of her jewelry comes from "its mix of classic simplicity and modern detaili...

Greenspan's legacy

In his book The Age of Turbulence , former Fed chief Alan Greenspan proclaimed that subprime was a good thing for America. "The gains were especially dramatic among Hispanics and blacks, as increasing affluence as well as government encouragement of subprime mortgage programs enabled many ...

Report on the Impact Presidential Elections will have on US Investments

...antly it will remove uncertainty. No doubt the first 100 days will be significant especially, in my opinion, if Obama gets in....

The Boring Game

Courtesy: progolferdigest.com What's the matter with golf today? I ask that question after reading an opinion piece on the current state of the professional game with which I find myself agreeing almost completely. John Huggan is a Scottish golf writer who pens his material for The Scotsm...

What others have to say about Shawn Hessinger and BootStrapMe.com

...h his engaging style, fresh and relevant content, and honest straightforward opinions. In my humble opinion, he's one of the best blog authors at Creative Weblogging - and a great blogger in gener...

Virtual Home Tours

// With the housing market the way it is right now, I was interested to see this article that says virtual home tours are on the upswing. They're used as a way to set apart one home listing from all the others. But do they really? A few years ago we sold our house and our...

Buy This Not That - MacBook Edition

© galaygobi Oh, the new MacBook's - what tempting teases they are. Mark did a nice write up of the the new, sexy Aluminum goodness. Being a Apple person, I could not help but drool over the new form factor, nifty trackpad, and faster chipsets. But, as I delved further, I found mysel...

Date My Ex

If you've tried every method of dating imaginable, perhaps you should try dating your friend's ex. In fact, wouldn't it be great for your friend to bring all their ex's, and you could bring all of yours, and the two of you could have a pick from each of your... leftovers (for lac...

Zuri Health Monitor

// Does a busy lifestyle affect your health ? Of course it does. Now, the folks at Zume Life out of California are testing a small, hand-held device called the Zuri to help you live a more healthy lifestyle. The Zuri helps remind folks to take their medicines at a certain time...

There is no such thing as a baby brain?

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Nina Shannon According to Australian researchers , that a woman's brain become mushy during pregnancy and motherhood is all but a myth. A study at the Australian National University in Canberra found no long-term cognitive decline in these women. The s...