Michael Blowhard writes: Dear Blowhards -- I've been thinking some recently about the difference between "what a person considers the ideal" and "what a person thinks might be useful in the here and now." One reason for this is that

Michael Blowhard writes: Dear Blowhards -- Those curious about the Peak Oil theory but perhaps a little tired of James Kunstler may enjoy this interview with investment banker, conservative dude, and Peak Oil believer Matthew Simmons. It would be hard

IT is time again to see how in touch with France you are thanks to questions posed by author Andrew Whittaker, who compiled the book Speak the Culture: France. He...

The summer season is coming up in North America, but it's already time to look ahead into the later part of the year. We're going to be due our annual Castlevania experience, and this year the series is landing on...

An invasive species of ants is hatching out all over the Houston, Texas area and invading electronic devices, among other places. The ants are fast, tend to explore randomly, and once established are fairly immune to most eradication techniques. Voracious

The European Climate Exchange has surpassed one million tons in traded carbon credits in one day. Who says pollution can't be profitable?Read More

Here is another option for your spare computer cycles, the Nutritious Rice for the World project, part of the World Community Grid.Read More

Yeah, it's definitely difficult, but somehow women like us manage to push through it.

One of my customers alerted me this morning that the just-released version 2.4 of Simon no longer works on Mac OS X 10.3.9 (Panther). I keep an old clamshell iBook on 10.3.9 for testing purposes, and just confirmed that this

Federal prosecutors today are expected to announce criminal charges in the "cyber-bullying" case involving Megan Meier, the 13-year-old Missouri girl who committed suicide last year following a heartless online hoax engineered by the mother of one of her friends.

A Missouri woman was indicted today on federal fraud and conspiracy charges for her alleged role in orchestrating a cruel MySpace hoax against a teenage girl who later committed suicide.

The key witness in the Megan Meier case is a 19-year-old woman who has admitted setting up a fake MySpace page at the direction of a Missouri woman who sought to secretly determine whether Meier was "saying bad things" about

As mentioned several place, the last session at our RedMonk CommunityDay track was on RIAs. It turned into a fun and heated discussion. Thanks to Rachel Hill and Josh Marinacci, there's a video of it available. The audio isn't perfect

I just finished a book about sales that I liked quite a bit: "The Contrarian Effect: Why it pays (Big) to take typical sales advice and do the opposite". The book is short, and filled with useful examples of how

Ever wonder why Facebook can act as a portal and be on multiple sites at once? There are two components

At work, we use the Revolution on Rails enhanced_migrations plugin. Yesterday I started the work of moving the app to Rails 2.1RC1. With version 2.1, Rails is moving to timestamp based migration names, instead of the traditional sequence numbering. This

I can't get my comment to post at Mary Beard's blog this a.m. (probably our school filters), but the suggestion has been made by 'Ed' (and agreed to by Dr. Beard), that the bust might actually be a head broken

9TH UNISA CLASSICS COLLOQUIUMUniversity of South Africa, PretoriaDate: October 23 - 25, 2008THEME:Greeks, Romans, Africans Contributions are invited on topics related to the reciprocal relationship between Africa and the cultures of Greece and Rome. Papers dealing with ancient authors writing

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idus maiasFestival of Jupiter rites in honour of Mercury rites in honour of Maia the Argei are tossed into the Tiber from the Sublician Bridge ....251 -- martyrdom of Isidore of Chios392 A.D. -- death of the emperor Valentinian II