Remember the wind-powered rotating skyscrapers of Dubai? Well, the building boom in the Emirates is over, thanks to the financial crisis. Most of the huge and expensive construction projects have been cancelled or are on hold. Not only that, foreign laborers are being laid off at an astounding rate ...

This week's issue of the Olympic College's newspaper The Olympian includes news of the HP 3000. In specific, the paper reports about the fate of systems which support admissions, registration, financial aid and graduation tracking. This nearly-total range of college operations relies on an H...

The Edo Biosphere by Thomas Daniell www.archis.org (December 19 2008) 1. Postwar Japan Japan's phoenix-like emergence out of the urban firestorms triggered by incendiary bombing campaigns during the final months of the Second World War is a story that has been told often enough. The incredible colle...

Last chance for tickets to the Tuesday, April 7th game in Southern California! The A’s play the Angels, and there is a group of 51 of us attending the game. To purchase additional tickets (at $24/each, saving $9), we need another group of 10. My waiting list is half that number right now. If y...

32-year-old Todd Braje has risen quickly in the world of ultrarunning. Now thanks to his 5:30 finish at the Jed Smith 50-mile, has gone right to the ranks of the Top 50 American 50-mile performances of all time. Rumors that this 2:26 marathoner was tearing up the trails began in 2007, when he was fi...

"Trust Me" on TNT "American Idol" fans can now shell out $1.99 for an iPhone app that will provide them with a weekly update them on the vital statistics of the remaining contenders for the rest of this season. What isn't clear from the press release is if there will be geosynchronous Ryan Seacrest ...

1. Our names are NOT "Hey" or "Yo", nor do we respond to whistles or banging your bottle or glass on the bar! IF you ever do get your drink you can be sure we will serve everyone else at the bar before we decide to serve you. 2. Mouth closed, money out! Just because we look at you, doesn't mean we'r...

We are constantly on a quest to conquer the next big thing. Mountain. Ocean. Planet. “Conversion Buster.” The next million dollar opportunity. Not that there’s anything fundamentally wrong with that quest. The challenge is that frequently in that quest we ignore the immediately ach...

THE FUCKER GETS OUT NEXT YEAR!!! Ten Years? Pedophile... author: Concerned for Children Are we doing enough to protect our children from sexual abuse? Are we punishing the abusers? What happened to me... Ten Years was not enough author: disabled CHILDREN ARE FROM HEAVEN FOR I'VE NEVER BEEN A FAILURE...

The National Lampoon Sports Minute (Or So) By Steve Hofstetter, Keith Alberstadt, Ryan Murphy, and Chris Strait Daryl Strawberry has just written his first book. He would have finished sooner but he was stuck on Chapter 11 for the better part of a decade. PETA activists showed up at Madison Square G...