I was reading today on Yahoo, and after getting past the ridiculous headline (World’s richest men are billionaires) I went on to read that the top four of these fortunate people shift positions from year to year but the field stays pretty much the same. It got me to thinking how different the ...

Talked yesterday with an old friend who called, drunk, asking for help. David Yachimowicz once was Rush Limbaugh's biggest fan. Asked him if he still listened to the man. He said no -- but that's because he no longer has a radio. He's living on disability, at a Salvation Army. A small de...

Being back in school and taking statistics and finance classes again has reminded me how much I love data. I am not one of those crazy guys who loves data in an unhealthy way and thinks that more of it will solve of all of the problems in the world mind you.  Nor do I believe it can always be trust...

Stiu, e mult spus. Mi-as dori sa existe companii care sa schimbe macar lumea mica din jurul nostru. Schimbari pe care sa le simtim in fiecare zi si sa ne bucuram ca exista. (foto by Danadol) Am simtit o astfel de schimbare in 2008. Cicloteque - proiectul initiat de Mai Mult Verde si sustinut de UniC...

So after the uproar created by the announcement that Sims 3 is being delayed for a few months, we now have another little firestorm on our hands. Are there “real” vampires in Sims 3? These screens are floating around the interweb right now of a male and a female vampire: They look like &...

Here's an image from a brilliant young, um, graphic artist. (Cartoonist isn't quite the right word.) Lotta truth there, I can attest. But as Patti Smith, mulling over the suicide of a hedge fund manager points out, hard times may mean fear, but don't have to mean despair. How wonderful i...

An interesting thing about the on-coming economic crash is that this is old news for lots of people, some of them impressively articulate, in both the music biz and the music criticism biz. Last year a wonderful magazine about what is now known as Americana music called No Depression gave up its pri...

There was a period a couple of weeks before Barack Obama won the presidential election that I sensed myself slipping into a deep emotional and psychological abyss, perpetuated by a clearly priorities- and ethics-warped mainstream media. I had to tune out for a while. I turned off the computer, trave...

Not being the most global-est thinking visionary, this morning I am wondering, what becomes of a country, millions of citizens of which have to “compete with jackals, baboons and goats for roots and wild fruits,� deal with a spreading cholera crisis, and whose “[o]pposition leader Morgan Tsvan...

Oh yes, we certainly do! And let me tell you something: they ain’t going to be quite the same thing as what we are used to. Back in the days all you needed was a poxy, a dummy scanner/spider just to lift of your back some of the repetitive and boring things, and your brain. You are pretty much...