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Did Palin quit to head off an embezzlement scandal?

The blogosphere is buzzing with talk that Sarah Palin's shock resignation was to head off an embezzlement scandal. Brad Friedman at the Brad Blog broke the story. "I've now been able to get independent information from multiple sources that all of this precedes what are said to b...

Daimler SP250 Celebrates 50th Anniversary, Sidney Gets a Treat

Walking down Sidney BC's main street recently on a fine sunny day, I spotted a Daimler SP250, known as a "Daimler Dart" until Chrysler threatened legal action. Although SP250s are scarce I remember them primarily because a fellow sports car club member raced one in the same Ontario ...

Arkansas Governor Praises U of A's Dedication to Nanotech

At Duralor LLC 's official opening of its new nanomanufacturing facility in Northern Arkansas, Arkansas governor Mike Beebe praised the University of Arkansas for its dedication to nanotech - the technology behind Duralor's products was developed at the university. "It was u...

1957 年款 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa

官方新闻稿： MARANELLO, Italy, May 17 /PRNewswire/ - RM Auctions, in association with Sotheby's made history at the Ferrari factory in Maranello today as a 1957 Ferrari 250 TR, chassis no. 0714TR sold for € 9,020,000 at the third-annual Ferrari Leggenda e Passione event to set a new world record...

EA 发布 2009 财年第四季度财报

全球第二大游戏发行商 Electronic Arts 本周发布 了 2009 财年第四季度财报。财报显示， EA 亏损了 4200 万美元，合每股 13 美分。 去年同期 EA 亏损了 9400 万美元，合每股 30 美分。不计一次性损益项目， EA 每股亏损 37 美分，低于分析师预期的 42 美分。 EA 营收下滑了 24% 至 8.6 亿美元，高于分析师预期的 6.326 亿美元。 EA CFO Eric Brown 表示，第四财季包括营销和管理费用在内的运营费用下滑了 18%，本财年运营费用将继续下滑。 EA CEO John Riccitiello 在为任天堂 Wii ...

HP拟1亿美元新建科罗拉多州数据中心

• 惠普拟1亿美元新建科罗拉多州数据中心 • Inside Steve Jobs' tear-down mansion • Apple's Mark Papermaster finally ready for work • Eric Schmidt on Google's New Plan for the News • Public Booted from DVD Copying Trial Over 'Secret' CSS Code • Amazon Acquires Stanza, an E-Book Application ...

Will Karen Mills Make a Difference at SBA?

BusinessWeek had a piece last week on Karen Mills, the newly confirmed head of the Small Business Association. She promises to reinvigorate the agency. Mills nevertheless inherits an SBA that languished under the Bush Administration, which cut its funding by about 26% since 2001 and sliced sta...

At Grand Central Station the Next Train Leaves as the First Car Arrives

I've walked countless times through New York's Grand Central Station while on my way to the J. Walter Thompson ad agency next door. During those memorable years I observed many unusual things (and people!) in that great terminal but never, ever, did I see a car in the station. Now BMW has...

Clearwire Testing VoIP Over WiMax in Portland, Oregon

© StuSeeger Clearwire is currently running a trial of VoIP phones in Portland, Oregon, with the aim of launching mobile voice services in 2010, according to Multichannel News' Todd Spangler . "The test could open the door for cable partners to offer their own wireless phone ser...

Twitter Raises $35 Million

If you were worried about how the people at Twitter were going to pay the bills and stay online, you can rest easier now. Twitter just claimed $35 million in funding. Several sources ( VentureBeat , PE Hub , TechCrunch , Mashable , Gawker ) have covered the funding news. Institutional Venture Pa...

美国第一家庭的装潢偏好

巴拉克•奥巴马(Barack Obama)成为美国第44届总统的就职典礼，令白宫(White House)翻开一页新历史。不过这个作为第一家庭办公、私宅以及正式庆典场所的廊柱型建筑，即将迎来的远不止是不同的主人。 第一家庭热衷留下个人印记 一旦新总统宣誓就职，这个坐落在华盛顿特区拉菲特广场(Lafayette Square)和椭圆形草坪(The Ellipse)之间的、有着208年历史的执政官官邸，将进行翻新改造，范围从入口大厅(Entrance Hall)直至林肯卧室(Lincoln Bedroom)。正如遴选内阁职位和移交国家机密一样，对白宫装潢的翻新历来是权力有序交接过程的...

SocialWhoIs: All About The Social Web

• SocialWhoIs: All About The Social Web • Kabooza - protecting and sharing your memories • BeTheBetterMan.com • MuTwee - Making Music Tweatable! • Leximo - Free Online World Dictionary - Share your words with the world • Google & The Big Ideas • AT&T Seeks Verizon Wireless Asset...

Hedge Fund Manager Surrenders to Police

Missing hedge fund manager Arthur Nadel, who disappeared last week along with an estimated $350 million of investor's money, turned himself in to The FBI yesterday. The Sarasota resident, 76, turned himself in at a Tampa office, accompanied by his legal team and his partner, Todd Foste...

Joost Drops P2P Client

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 4934185 Joost this week announced that it's dropping its desktop P2P client, redirecting users to access videos via its Web site instead. "As of December 19, Joost's Windows and Mac software clients will cease to work, and instead will i...

Type 1 Diabetes and Celiac Diasease: Genetically Linked

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Rafal Zdeb Type 1 diabetes is the condition wherein the body doesn't produce enough insulin to convert blood sugar into energy for the cells. On the other hand, Celiac disease is a digestive disease that damages the small intestine and interferes with abs...

World Diabetes Day Update

Here's the latest update from the World Diabetes Day "Young Voices: Life With Diabetes" Forum event hosted by Novo Nordisk, Discovery Health, Discovery Education and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) to bring together teens and young adults living with type 1 diabete...

Comcast, Time Warner Top Keynote VoIP Study

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto Keynote Competitive Research today announced the results of its latest VoIP Service Provider Study , which compares the reliability and audio quality of eight VoIP providers ( AT&T CallVantage , Comcast Digital Voice , EarthLink trueVoice , Lingo , Pac...

Delicious Turns Five

Tech Crunch pointed out today that this is the fifth birthday of social bookmarking site Delicious . Based in Santa Clara, California, Delicious was founded by Joshua Schachter in 2003. Yahoo! bought it in 2005. Today it has more than five million users - me included. From my perspective, De...

Wir sind die coolsten, wenn wir cruzen...

... wenn wir durch die City das Web düsen :) Sorry, der Witz musste sein. Aber ich bin total geflasht von Cruz , dem neusten Streich von Fluid-Entwickler Todd Ditchendorf. Gestern hab ich in den Notizen bei Macnotes nur kurz erwähnt, das es Cruz gibt und so, und nun nach rund 24 Stunden Testph...

Eat at Chili's Today!

Chili's Grill & Bar® to Donate 100 Percent of All Profits on Monday, Sept. 29 to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital as Part of Annual Create-A-Pepper to Fight Childhood Cancer Campaign Memphis, Tenn. - September 24, 2008 - Chili's Grill & Bar announced today it wi...

Jack Thompson Disbarred

Jack Thompson, the man who was on a crusade to have various "violent" games banned completely due to the supposed influence they are having on people, is set to have his licence to practice being an attorney removed. Perhaps this will finally stop his torrent of pointless lawsuits...

APCW Celebrates Number 100, Big Move for Online Gambling Bill

100 episodes of APCW weekly . J. Todd comes out firing big with the straight talk about Bodog and more importantly The Passage of a very important Bill that will clarify what the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act completely mucked up. Drawing straighter lines as to want kind of ...

Would you like to visit a virtual RFID Hospital?

If you are a health care professional you should not miss on this!! University of Arkansas students along with their computer sciences professor Craig Thompson are working towards creating a simulation environment which would enable health organizations to test RFID even before they implement...

America's Newest Celebrity: Sarah Palin

Republican politicians generally disdain celebrities and routinely refer to anyone in the limelight who opposes their views as "Hollywood Types." Their reasoning is that celebrities are a bunch of dumb, lying, sensationalist, self-serving, publicity seeking neer-do-wells, who should b...

Your Best Buy May Be Broken, So Take A Look First

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Todd Taulman Kimberly Palmer had an interesting post last week about a Best Buy customer whose TV came out of the box broken : So, as irritating as that would be, you would think that at least the store would exchange it for an undamaged one, right? Wrong. W...

APPT Macau Kicks Off With Two Brunsons

image from bankrollbacker.com The Asian Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) sponsored by PokerStars has officially kicked off with the Day 1A flight. Popular players such as Doyle Brunson, his son Todd Brunson, former WPT champ Nam Le, and the always striking Liz Leu joined 103 players today as they p...

Adventure travel discounts to Kiwis, Aussies and Eurolanders

© Todd Huffman Tucan Travel, an adventure travel specialist is offering discounts to clients who pay in some currencies until 1 November 2008 in response to these currencies increasing in value against sterling and the US dollar. The discount for payment in New Zealand dollars is 7.5%, Austr...

SSD bandwagon too soon

© james.thompson Have we jumped onto the SSD (solid-state disk) bandwagon too soon? An interesting article put out on Byte and Switch titled: " Tough Times Ahead for SSD Storage " takes a look at where we actually are with SSDs in relation to HDDs (hard disk drives). It basically sta...

WHB - Parsley and Baba Ganoush

Humble parsley. So often taken for granted and often considered merely window ( or plate ) dressing. What a shame. Have you ever really tasted flat leaf, Italian parsley? I mean, have you ever put a little bundle of parsley leaves in your mouth and chewed them around and savored their fresh, ear...

60 余款 Big Brother 有关的网络资源

【官方网站】 • Big Brother After Dark • Big Brother Official Site • Real Player Subscription Page 【粉丝网站】 • BigBrotherAccess.com • BigBrotherChatter.com • BigBrotherFanClub.com • HamsterWatch.com • JokersUpdates.com • Monty'sTV.com • MoreBigBrother.com • PowerOfVeto.com • R...

Teens Choose Their Favorite Celebrities, Movies & TV Shows

The kids have spoken and here are the winners of the "10th annual Teen Choice Awards": Movie Action Adventure: "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian" Movie Drama: "Step Up 2: The Streets" Movie Chick Flick: "27 Dresses" Movie Romantic Comedy: "Wh...

Princeton Review College Rankings Out For 2009

Hats off to Todd Johnson over at College Admissions Partners for pointing out that the 2009 Edition of the Princeton Review College Rankings is out. The rankings tell you everything . Want to know who has the best college libraries? Harvard, Yale, Duke, the College of New Jersey, and Cornell ...

Preview of the BCS Conferences

© virtva Here now, a look at the predicted order of finish for the BCS Conference schools. ACC Coastal 1. Virginia Tech 2. North Carolina 3. Miami 4. Georgia Tech 5. Virginia 6. Duke Atlantic 1. Clemson 2. Florida State 3. Wake Forest 4. Maryland 5. Boston College 6. NC State Bi...

Microsoft versus Open Source: Who is winning?

Two counter-claims spotted in the blogosphere today causes me to revisit this seemingly quiet battlefield again, although I bring no conclusions or opinions to the matter. You be the judge! First, Sun's Jonathan Schwartz says he is meeting with more and more customers who are finding guerilla...

Microsoft shake-up

Microsoft has just announced the departure of Platforms and Services division president Kevin Johnson and the reorganization of the division into two new business units, Windows/ windows live and Online Services. Johnson, according to the Wall Street Journal, will be taking the helm at J...

Book Review: Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It

Why does work suck? Because full-grown adults are made to feel like children, Slaves to the clock, working by rules that are more fit to the 19th century then today. We work all week and then have to spend the weekend running errands until Sunday comes and that familiar dread creeps into...

iStockphoto wird Exklusivsponsor von Megapixelig

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Image# München/Calgary, 16. Juli 2008 - iStockphoto®, weltweit führender Anbieter von lizenzfreiem Stockmaterial, wird Exklusivsponsor von dem Weblog Megapixelig . Im Rahmen dieser Partnerschaft stellt iStockphoto den Megapixelig-Autoren insgesamt 1.000 Credits...

Four Ways With Eggplant

This deep purple, glossy beauty of the vegetable world ( actually eggplant is a fruit - a giant berry! ) is coming into season in many markets. This is a wonderful, versatile and chameleon-like vegetable that is featured in cuisines around the world. These are four of my favorite ways with eggplant...

Microsoft takes a stand with Vista

Drawing a line in the sand and pulling out the checkbook, Microsoft has signalled that it doesn't intend to continue standing by quietly and allowing Vista to be sullied by ads, pundits, and random Slashdot posts. "Windows Vista is a good product," said Vice President of Wi...

Name This Car and Win... Fame But No Fortune

Here's a little guessing game for you. I took the above photo in the early 1970's during my time as European Accounts Group Creative Director for the J. Walter Thompson ad agency. The location was near Caserta , a small town in the south of Italy, the purpose an advertising shoot. The ...

Aaron Rodgers Should Demand a Trade

© silwenae Brett Favre may be returning to the NFL, and if he follows through, a number of things will happen. John Madden 's head will explode, ESPN's programming will be set for a month, and Viagra sales in Green Bay will wane due to the excitement of Packers fans. But here'...

College Football Preseason Top 25

© eagle102.net As college football gets closer, it's time for EZB's first preseason Top 25. 1) Ohio State : James Laurinaitis is back at linebacker, Beanie Wells is back at running back, as is a plethora of talent at other positions. 2) Oklahoma : QB Sam Bradford should be ...

Mediaterranean Diet During Pregnancy May Prevent Asthma and Allergies

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Leah-Anne Thompson There have been many research studies on how the maternal diet can influence the health of her child not only while the baby is in utero , but for the rest of the child's life. For example, a recent study suggests that Mediterranean diet ...

Dundarave Golf Resort, Prince Edward Island

Dundarave Golf Club, P.E.I. During U-S Open week, my wife and I had the pleasure of spending 4 days in one of our favorite golf destinations - Prince Edward Island . I have written before about golf on PEI in this space and how rewarding an experience it is but it had been several years s...

Garmin Nuvifone has a Killer UI:

Garmin the leading GPS manufacturer announced its first mobile device known as the Nuvifone in January this year. Todd Haselton of the Laptop Mag recently had a hands on with Nuvifone prototype and he was impressed with the device particularly the UI. It is expected to be released in Q3 2008. Re...

Tiger Back On The Shelf

Courtesy: Getty Images The golf world is abuzz today with the news that Tiger Woods is done for the season. Woods announced today on his website that he was undergoing another surgery on his left knee - not for more arthroscopic work but to repair a tear in his anterior cruciate ligament wh...

Las Vegas 的赌场开始使用微软的 Surface 触控“桌子”电脑

继美国第一大移动运营商 AT&T 之后，Las Vegas 的一家赌场成为第二家采用微软"桌子"电脑" Surface "的公司。 Surface 是一个表面安装了 30 英寸触摸屏显示器的工作台，可以接收多个触摸输入信号，因而支持多人同时操作。它还可以自动识别放置在屏幕上的物体。 这是售价高达 1 万美元的 Surface 首次涉足"娱乐圈"，在此之前，AT&T 曾在部分零售商店中使用 Surface ，为用户提供信息、自选产品等服务。

HP 发布一体式触控屏桌面电脑 Touchsmart IQ506/504

本周在德国柏林举行的新产品发布会上，HP 推出了一体式触控屏桌面电脑 Touchsmart IQ506/504。从整体结构和设计思路来看，倒是很像 Apple 的 iMac，但是 HP 在此基础上已经应用了大尺寸触控屏，使得操作与应用更为丰富。与之前 Bill 演示的 Windows 7 应该是完美的组合。配置方面，CPU 采用 2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 处理器或者 1.9GHz 的 AMD x64 处理器，19 或者 22 英寸的触控显示屏，500GB 硬盘，最高可支持 4MB 内存，NVIDIA GeForce 9300 M GS HD 显卡，NTSC/ATS...

Nvidia 发布 Tegra All-in-One 移动处理器

Nvidia 今天面向移动互联网设备 (MID) 发布了两款全新的 Tegra 系列处理器，向"老大哥"Intel 发起挑战。 这两款处理器分别为 Tegra 600 和 Tegra 650，主要面向微型计算设备而设计。但最初，Tegra 系列产品主要面向新兴的 MID 设备。 最早提出 MID 概念的是 Intel，其 Atom 处理器也正是面向MID设备而开发。但 Intel 和 Nvidia 均承认，到目前为止，用户对 MID 的定义仍然很糊涂。 Nvidia 移动事业部总经理 Mike Rayfield 称，MID 的屏幕尺寸应在 4 英寸至 12 英寸之...

NFL's Worst QB Combos

© timsamoff Originally, this was going to be an attempt to rank the best NFL QB combos. But that's a little too mundane. I mean, how can I rank the Indianapolis Colts ' QB tandem when Jim Sorgi never sees playing time except when the Colts have clinched a playoff spot and they...

Sanyo Turns to Sharp for LCD Display Production

© james.thompson Sanyo recently announced that they have started buying liquid crystal display panels from Sharp to manufacture their flat televisions. Sanyo is also looking to other suppliers for procurement of lcd panels as well. According to a recent Reuters post, Sanyo is focusi...

Automakers Proving Grounds, Viewed From Above

During my lengthy career as an automobile journalist and ad writer I was privileged to drive on several auto manufacturer's proving grounds. The Studebaker test track in South Bend was first (I did say "lengthy" didn't I?), then came Ford's historic Dearborn facility ...

Nancy Todd Political Activist or Card Player Wins WPT Ladies Championship

I was checking out the conclusion of the World Poker Tour's WPT Championship this morning, and instead got the final update of a women's tournament. Not that this blogger has anything against ladies exclusive poker tourneys but there hasn't been any notices on the WPT web site until...

More than full disclosure

Is fair disclosure the same as full disclosure? It's an important question in the wake of the subprime mortgage crisis where investors clearly were not given sufficient information. Louis Thompson Jr, who until his retirement was the long-time chief of the National Investor Relations Instit...

Update von Fluid

Anfang des Jahres hatte ich schon einmal meine Begeisterung von Fluid, dem Site Specific Browser, bekundet . Seither nutze ich fluid zumeist für G (läuft bei mir nicht so toll mit .app), flickr und YouTube. Umso mehr freue ich mich heute über ein Update auf Fluid 0.9 . Fluid...

Farecast acquired by Microsoft

© donjd2 This is probably only of interest to the frequent flyers among you, but I thought I'd post it because I've been intrigued by the site Farecast.com since its inception a year or two ago. Farecast, if you haven't used it, applies predictive analysis to airline airfare an...

McFadden vs. Mendenhall vs. Stewart

© Todd Huffman If you ask most people, be they analysts, bloggers or some guy on the street, who the best running back in the NFL Draft is, they'll more than likely say it's Arkansas' Darren McFadden. But is he? Not everyone necessarily believes that's the case. The most outs...

Some Pundits' Mock Draft

© minds-eye Mock drafts are a big thing this time of year, obviously. So we scoured the internets and will share with you who other "experts" from the mass media have going in their mock drafts. For our purposes, we'll confine it to the top 10. Mel Kiper, ESPN 1. Miami Dolphi...

Covestor 获收 650 万美元投资

面向个人投资者的社会化网络 Covestor 近日获收第一轮投资，来自于 Union Square Ventures、Spark Capital 和 Amadeus Capital Partners，总额 650 万美元。去年夏天的时候， 网谈这里介绍过 Covestor ，Covestor 采用了封闭式社区的模式，虽说用户都是免费的，但是需要邀请与资质审核。当申请成功之后，Covestor 会提供与证券有关的专业平台和工具，来帮助你计算、追踪、统计相关选定的信息 - 这一切操作和数据都在默认的私人读取权限下，除非你自己分享。

NFL's All-Criminal Team

© littlerottenrobin With more troubles concerning players like former Bengals WR Chris Henry and Cleveland Browns DB Kenny Wright , it seems like an appropriate time to make up our first NFL All-Criminal team - including special teams. The team will be made up of players who were on an NF...

XP reprieve at an end

At least as far as corporate customers are concerned, Microsoft's "drop dead" (which seems to be their message to users, as well) date for ending Windows XP sales will remain as previously mentioned: June 30, 2008. XP as a whole will not be disappearing, however; XP Home will remai...

College Football's Best Returning QB's

© wtstoffs Matt Ryan, Andre Woodson, colt brennan , Brian Brohm and many other elite college quarterbacks are taking their game to the next level and have exited college football for life in the NFL. But with spring practices going on at college campuses all around the nation, let's ...

Die 25 wertvollsten Weblogs

© Todd Kravos Mit Weblogs, wie wir sie in Deutschland kennen, haben die großen amerikanischen Blogs nur noch wenig zu tun - außer vielleicht der Software. In Wirklichkeit sind es Medienunternehmen, die inzwischen zum Teil Millionen von Dollar wert sind. Wieviel genau, hat jetzt das Finanz-Blo...

Mr. Smith goes to San Francisco

Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith put in an unusual appearance yesterday at the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco. Smith, the tip of Microsoft's formidable legal spear in dealing with alleged open source violations of the company's patents, delivered an opening ...

Who Do The "Experts" Think Will Go Number 1?

Between Matt Ryan, Chris Long (pictured), Jake Long and others, there seems to be no consensus on who should be the number one overall pick in the upcoming NFL Draft. So let's take a look around and see which player some experts think will be the first one selected. - Don Banks, Sports...

One Billion RFID Cards Compromised by Simple Attack

Holland's Radboud University yesterday announced that researchers had managed to crack and duplicate NXP Semiconductors ' MIFARE RFID tech that's used in major public transport systems like the London Underground , as well as for security in office buildings and government fac...

SearchTogether: 微软的社会化搜索？

SearchTogether 是微软的一个研究项目，其实也就是一个 Internet Explorer 插件，它会打开一个浏览器的边栏，目的是为了多台电脑的协作搜索。而且它需要使用者登录 Windows Live ID。

We Take High School Football A Tad Too Seriously

Most people probably realize that many folks take youth sports far too seriously these days. It's not enough to, you know, have fun. Daddy wants little Johnny to be the best, so he does whatever he can to make that possible. Whether it's belittling the official, belittling little Johnny, ...

Yahoo 被裁的中层管理人员名单曝光

Yahoo 上月底宣布将裁员 1000 人 ，已从上周开始实施。下面是在 Yahoo 此次裁员中离职的中层管理人名单， 共涉及 22 人 ：

Wine at the Oscars

Unless you haven't been paying attention the last couple of weeks, you're aware that the 80th annual Academy Awards are this Sunday, February 24. What will the stars be drinking after the ceremony? Wine from Napa Valley's Sterling Vineyards , that's what. For the fifth year, St...