Avedon Carol is sick of sycophancy. I just want to say that I'm really sick of getting constant announcements that I can now buy an Obama trinket of some kind, a T-shirt or a coffee mug or god-all-knows-what. I don't support Obama , I support the advancement of policies that will make the Un...

Apparently this is some sort of Samsung advertisement showing what you can do when you RAID 24 256GB solid state drives together. The fun includes: achieving a transfer rate of over 2GB/sec, opening all of Microsoft Office in a half-second, opening all 53 programs in the start menu in 18 seconds, an...

How do you improve your writing? There's no question that there's money to be made selling information online. You only have to look at people like Brian Clark and Darren Rowse to know that you can wake up one day, start blogging, and end up rich and famous! There's a clear path from your brain to y...

See these kids right here? OK well you can't really because I have blurred the photo. The point is I have to remind myself, this is why I do what I do. I see these kids when I pop into there classroom, when we have special events planned, if I need to speak at a confirmation meeting - but for th...

Software programs that get installed on the computer system can be uninstalled using the supplied uninstaller or by simply deleting the program folder of the application. Doing the latter will keep traces of the software program on the computer, for example in the uninstall programs dialog and the W...

Oh, man, the Brokeback Mountain girl is so broke and bankrupt that she's been forced to strip her clothes off for her latest starring role. Hopefully, Hollywood will get enough Plastic Surgery Stimulas Funds to help out desperate actresses like Michelle Williams enhance their pancake titties. No won...

What's your favorite way of stimulating your creative juices? How do you inspire yourself? I don't usually get up at 2 a.m. and work, but when work's creative it's more like play, so why not? Here's two good posts to read and then I'll tell you why these two writers, Sean D'Souza and John Jantsch, a...

Carlos Lozada interviews James K. "Dow 36000" Glassman. Lozada pulls his punches--there is a stunning lack of follow-up: OUTSPOKEN: A Conversation With James K. Glassman: LOZADA: So, 10 years ago you predicted the Dow would reach 36,000 [in 3 to 5 years--note]. This week, the Dow fell to its lowest ...

File under "I Could Have Told You That": In today’s Science section... my colleague Natalie Angier writes about how so much of what makes us human comes from our practice of handing off our children to others for care. Momma chimps won’t let go of their babies for a moment for a full s...

Walking down the corridor the other day, we had a conversation with the owner of a business that shares the same office complex as us. We asked them how they were doing with getting their website up and running. “It’s not how we get business, it wouldn’t work for us” was the ...