all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned
Last.FM (née AudioScrobbler), an early leader of social music consumption, was bought out a while back by CBS Broadcasting Inc, a huge US media conglomerate. One would expect this to be a Very Bad...
[The US President announced] a series of conferences to devise means of preventing the Stockmarket decline from affecting US business … The automobile makers, represented by Ford and General Motors’ Alfred P. Sloan Jr.,...
Apple has lowered its projected shipments of iPhones from two million units to around 1-1.2 million units for the second fiscal quarter, which will end March 2008, the Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) quoted...
Jerome Kerviel taught kids judo, held the door for his elderly neighbors in a posh Paris suburb — and appears to have committed one of the biggest bank frauds in history … In the...
I was reading Adam Cadre’s short essay, Trajectories of Fascism, which is all about the alternative histories where the Nazi regime in Germany was not destroyed in 1945. Sadly WONDERFULLY, Cadre’s essay didn’t mention...
There are two Republican candidates in this election— [Huckabee and] the absurd and sinister Ron Paul being the other—who choose this crucial moment in our time to exalt those who attempted to destroy the...
But it’s probably a mistake to expect the current housing market to behave like the stock market of the late 1990s. “There is no bubble!” says Raphael Bostic, professor at USC’s School of Policy,...
Finally a source for the idea that academic politics are so cruel/brutal/intense/vicious because the stakes are so low: Academic politics are so vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.” This observation is routinely...
Shearer’s boyfriend, Christopher Lee McCuin, 25, was charged with capital murder after police said they found her body, an ear boiling in a pot on a stovetop, and a hunk of flesh with a...
Microsoft gets about 75 percent of its 40 billion dollars in revenue from licensing fees. A few years ago, it set up an Irish subsidiary called Round Island One Ltd. to own its 16...