Let the Trade Rumors Begin
As the NFL Draft approaches, you can bet that trade rumors involving the Lions' #2 overall pick will be swirling at a rapid pace. That was the case yesterday as Pro Football Talk reported that serious talks were underway between Detroit and Tampa Bay. The Buccaneers want to move up to the #2 overall pick to ensure they will get Calvin Johnson. ... (Read on Source)
An Iranian Agent In Phoenix Nuclear Reactor?
American authorities have arrested a Phoenix man on suspicion of violating the trade embargo with Iran -- by supplying the mullahs with details of an American nuclear reactor. Mohammed Alavi stepped off a flight from Iran to LAX and into the arms of FBI agents on April 9th: A former engineer at the nation's largest nuclear power plant has been ... (Read on Source)
Ruling Makes Bankruptcy Suits Harder
A recent Delaware Supreme Court decision may have undermined cases against directors and officers of companies for actions they take just before they file for bankruptcy, such as increasing the company's debt or signing major contracts with creditors. The court ruled in May that creditors of a Delaware corporation that is insolvent or in the "zone of insolvency" have no right to assert direct claims for breach of fiduciary duty against its directors.
The iPod Video Connection
Wouldn't it be great if you could watch anything you wanted on your iPod? Well, you can, and all it takes is conversion software. Using DVD to iPod conversion software it becomes possible to wat...
Former Bre-X exec not guilty of fraud
An executive prosecuted in one of the biggest stock scandals in Canadian history and the biggest mining scandal of all time was found not guilty Tuesday.
Gallery: DIY Spirit Gets One Paraglider Off the Ground
South African paraglider Cyril Mazibuko demonstrates the sport, using the wind currents and conditions in the Vaalkops hills, part of the Highveld region of South Africa.
War of the sexes
"Girls go to College to get more knowledge; Boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider" by Á. age 6 1/4 Read the comments on this post... (Read on Source)
Friday Afternoon Funny - Trip to the Dentist
via Joan Bramsch, Empowered Parenting . Thanks for a great laugh at Tim Conway & Harvey Korman! (Read on Source)
Open-Source Advocates Ponder Medsphere's Future
Modern Healthcare Online: "Just how open will the self-described open-source software developer be under its new leadership now that the Shreeves are gone and any legal posturing to preserve the notion that Medsphere is providing both open-source and proprietary software is no longer necessary...?"
Are You An Agency SEM Pro? Take SEMPO's Salary Survey
SEMPO is undertaking a salary survey of agency search engine marketing professionals, similar to its in-house SEM salary survey that we reported on in January . If you're an agency SEM pro, SEMPO would like to hear from you, whether you're a SEMPO member or not. To qualify for the survey, you must: Work at an agency devoted solely to SEM, or ... (Read on Source)
Niceville man arrested for child porn
NICEVILLE — America Online reported a man for sharing child porn on the Internet, Okaloosa County sheriff’s deputies say in his arrest...
Tony Stewart leaving Gibbs to become owner-driver for renamed Stewart-Haas team in 2009
JOLIET, Ill. - Tony Stewart knows he's taking a gamble by leaving NASCAR's elite Joe Gibbs Racing team to join one that usually runs in the middle of the pack. (Read on Source)
Stocks Rally Despite Tough Tech Earnings
Tuesday was a study in contrasts, as the entire chip sector fell 4.5% as the rest of the market gained.
Weir tied for lead
Canadian Mike Weir is one of three players tied for the lead after Thursday?s rain-soaked first round of the Canadian Open was suspended due to darkness.
On the Croton
(ADDED: I've been reminded that yesterday was the 39th anniversary of the first humans on the moon. It would have been today but Neil Armstrong was too excited to wait. I see that I had a little post on Armstrong in October 2005 . Let those of us who were so enthusiastic and excited (not to mention alive at the time!) not calculate the ... (Read on Source)
FCC Declares Comcast's Throttling Violated Net-Neutrality Rules
By a narrow 3-2 vote, the Federal Communications Commission ruled that Comcast violated net-neutrality rules when it blocked BitTorrent traffic. The FCC said Comcast lied about its traffic management practices, which it said were anti-competitive in nature, and ordered a halt to them.
Big Yahoo shareholder demands review of board vote (AP)
AP - A major Yahoo Inc. shareholder has asked for a review of how its votes were cast in last week's re-election of the Internet company's board, raising questions about whether the opposition to the directors may have been understated.
All of us, the arbiters of news
On Friday, NBC spent the day trying to plug online leaks of the splashy opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics in order to protect its taped prime-time broadcast 12 hours later. There was a profound change in roles here: a network trying to delay broadcasting a live event, more or less TiVo-ing its own content. (Read on Source)
Disneyland disrupted by union protest
ANAHEIM, Calif., Aug. 15 (UPI) -- The union representing about 2,300 workers at Disneyland in California staged a protest and planned arrests to raise awareness of their dispute with Disney.
Smoothest surface ever may prompt first atomic microscope
A TEAM of physicists from the Autonomous University of Madrid and the Madrid Institute of Advanced Studies in Nanoscience , Spain, has created the "quantum stabilised atom mirror," the smoothest surface ever, ...
How IT Could Have Prevented the Financial Meltdown
The tools are largely there, but not the visibility needed for regulators and banks to catch problems early.
Here They Come
It's time to face facts. In-your-face liberalism is about to make a comeback. And this time it will be on steroids. Next year the Democrats will control both houses of Congress, most likely with comfortable, perhaps filibuster-proof majorities. If there is a Democratic president, too, Washington will host one of the most liberal governments ... (Read on Source)
A Breath Of Fresh Air: My New Ubuntu Desktop
Shantanu's Technophilic Musings: "I've never been a sucker for eye-candy stuff, prefering to have more resources available for real work, instead of ooh-aahing over nice looking things all around my desktop. Well, but then I fell prey."
Web Design: Reducing Load Time Through Image Optimization
Even though more and more Internet users switch to broadband every year, a large portion of the web's population is still running on good old dialup connections. It is therefore unwise to count them o...
NFL special feature: Images from Week 12
A look at the top players images from Week 12 (Read on Source)
WordPress 2.6.5 Released: Update Now
This one's for the WordPress bloggers. WordPress version 2.6.5 is available and fixes one security problem and three bugs. Everyone should upgrade to this release (and skip the fake 2.6.4 version which was making the rounds). The security issue is an XSS exploit that affects IP-based virtual servers running on Apache 2.x. To patch the ... (Read on Source)
Lotus Notes to Outlook Migration
Email migration for lotus notes to outlook migration. Migrate emails and other items from NSF to ...
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