I wish someone could explain to me how anyone can make it in this crazy world. No longer is it that if you work hard, you will get ahead....

Filed under: Etc., Marketing/Advertising, GM, Celebrities Click on the image above to watch video of Howie Long irking non-GM fans Howie Long has set blogger keyboards ablaze with invective. The former footballer's starring role in Campbell-Ewald's latest spots for General Motors has some in a froth...

VC, deals, IT Wade Roush wrote: Virtual Computer, a Westford, MA, PC virtualization startup that has been gradually decloaking since last fall, today announced that it’s raised a Series B funding round totaling $15 million. The surprisingly large round was led by Highland Capital Partners of L...

There can only be one, and the Highlanders of the New Jersey Institute of Technology got theirs—their one win in 52 games, breaking a NCAA-record losing streak. Do you believe in miracles? For reasons that have yet to be explained, NJIT moved up to Division I three years ago and promptly becam...

We’ve all seen magnetic catches on cabinets — you know, the kind where if you pull hard enough you overcome the magnetic force to open the door.  But the bigger the door, the bigger the magnet needed to hold it closed and the harder you have to yank the door to get it open.  Using thei...

  Survivor: Tocantins - The Brazilian Highlands has revealed the new cast of competitors.  The CBS reality television show wound up shooting Season 18 in mid-December and will broadcast the episodes on Thursday evenings beginning February 12, 2009. The 16 contestants were stranded for 39 days in R...

We’re checking with the Southwest Precinct for any more info on this, including whether anyone’s been arrested. But we didn’t want to wait any longer to share the original reader report, from Zack: Two of my neighbors were violently mugged last night in Highland Park as they were w...

From the "Duuuuuh" Files Guess who made a delicious meal of mini penne pasta with two parts homemade tomato sauce to one part homemade vindaloo sauce, plus a small chunk of frozen spinach and a generous sprinkling of feta cheese to bring with me for lunch today? Yup. Guess who also left it sitting o...

energy, Efficiency, Xconomy Wade Roush wrote: Xconomy had the great privilege last week of hosting energy guru Amory Lovins, the cofounder, chairman, and chief scientist of the famous Rocky Mountain Institute resource think tank in Colorado, for a “fireside chat” with local venture commu...

speaking of things that will really ought to get our and see, the plaza theatre will be hosting a showing of the documentary nerdcore rising friday night. i’ll be honest with you, i knew absolutely nothing about nerdcore, which is apparently nerd rapping about world of warcraft, online bulleti...