Barbara Ehrenreich about her new book, Barack Obama and the great wealth divide | News | guardian.co.uk Books "There's this powerful myth that America doesn't have classes; that they're an ancient English or European thing that we abolished. And that if you're not rich, it's your own damn fault...

Now, just about anyone can be a game developer — and get paid for it, too. At its Gamefest 2008 event today, Microsoft announced that community games made using its XNA tools will be downloadable via either PC or Xbox 360, and that the creators will get 70 percent of the revenues, as we report...

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed After I blogged recently about wanting to try TiVo, I was sent a unit to review for a few weeks. I’ve been wanting to try it out, so this was a great opportunity. With certain software, you can take programs you record on TiVo and trans...

Daily TIPs, Internet, Plug-in Hybrids Neil Savage wrote: ISPs Should Not Control Net Traffic, FCC Hears Internet users don’t want broadband providers to slow down peer-to-peer traffic or track what users are doing online, people speaking at a public hearing in Pittsburgh told the Federal Commu...

Paul Westerberg has a 43 minute mp3 featuring new music for sale at Amazon, "49:00," for only 49 cents. (via) Billboard offers background for the release. The Guardian reports that the finalists for Britain's 2008 Mercury Prize have been named. The nominated albums: Adele - 19 British Sea Power - Do...

What's new in Jewish books for adults? Follow me around the 2008 Book Expo America conference to listen in on publishers and authors talking about their new and forthcoming titles! This series includes four episodes: In Part 1 we heard about Jewish pictures books. Part 2 was about Jewish books for o...

Paul Westerberg has a 43 minute mp3 featuring new music for sale at Amazon, "49:00," for only 49 cents. (via) Billboard offers background for the release. The Guardian reports that the finalists for Britain's 2008 Mercury Prize have been named. The nominated albums: Adele - 19 British Sea Power - Do...

(NaturalNews) Sales of anti-inflammatory pharmaceuticals are a multi-billion dollar industry. Yet as we've learned with the Vioxx fiasco and all the tens of thousands of deaths surrounding that drug, anti-inflammatory medications can be extremely dangerous. Sure, it stops the pain, but sometimes it ...

According to many media critics and professionals, the old media are dying. On such Web sites as Newspaperdeathwatch.com, doomsayers are predicting an imminent demise. Even such really smart people such as Marc Andreesen are predicting death. On his pmarca.com blog Andreesen, co-founder of Netscape ...

At least one major right-wing smear attack on Obama may be gearing up. I'll call it the "Who Sent You" campaign. As weird as it sounds -- and it is weird stuff -- the gist of it is that Obama's birth was part of a secret plan by communists, Jews and one-worlders to take over the world. As you read t...