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authorsizzletime06 Apr 2008categorytechnology

Set during the Trojan War, The Iliad combines battle scenes with a debate about heroism; Odysseus' thwarted attempts to return to Ithaca when the war ends form The Odyssey. Its symbolic evocation of human life as an epic journey homewards has inspired everything from James Joyce's Ulysses to the Coen ...


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Global Plans, Cutbacks

authorsizzletime06 Apr 2008categorytechnology

Mike Volpi, CEO of Joost, spent his first weekend in California in many months dealing with the blowback from a story in The Sunday Times (of UK) that has the company scaling back its global ambitions in favor of a US-only focus. We talked earlier this evening, and Volpi said none of those things are ...


The Clean Energy Scam

authorsizzletime06 Apr 2008categorytechnology
Time - By Michael Grunwald - Apr. 7 (Special Report) - From his Cessna a mile above the southern Amazon, John Carter looks down on the destruction of the world's greatest ecological jewel. He watches men converting rain forest into cattle pastures and soybean fields with bulldozers and chains. He sees fires wiping out such gigantic swaths of jungle that scientists now debate the "savannization" of the Amazon...

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Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear: Politics & Power

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Vanity Fair - By James B. Steele - Apr. 7 (Special Report) - Monsanto already dominates America's food chain with its genetically modified seeds. Now it has targeted milk production. Just as frightening as the corporation's tactics-ruthless legal battles against small farmers-is its decades-long history of toxic contamination.

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Scrabble Tries to Fight a Popular Impostor at Its Own Game

authorsizzletime06 Apr 2008categorytechnology

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Comcast, Twitter And The Chicken (trust me, I have a point) (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)

authorsizzletime06 Apr 2008categorytechnology

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Comcast, Twitter And The Chicken (trust me, I have a point)  —  I've had a very odd weekend.  —  First, I've taken a dozen or so phone calls from concerned relatives and friends over this NYTimes article.  But a bigger issue is that the Internet was down in the house starting late Friday night, so I haven't been online much.

Solar System’s ‘look-alike’ found

authorsizzletime06 Apr 2008categorytechnology

Astronomers say they have discovered a planetary system orbiting a distant star which looks much like our own.


Kid Medicine Mishaps Unexpectedly Frequent

authorsizzletime06 Apr 2008categorytechnology
Medicine mix-ups, accidental overdoses and bad drug reactions harm roughly one out of 15 hospitalized children, according to the first scientific test of a new detection method. ... Researchers found a rate of 11 drug-related harmful events for every 100 hospitalized...

Yahoo Promises to ‘Amp’ Up Ad Platform

authorsizzletime06 Apr 2008categorytechnology
SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo Inc. believes it's poised to revolutionize online advertising after years of being outmaneuvered by rival Google Inc. ... But the slumping Internet pioneer might not get the chance to show off the latest improvements to its online advertising...

Web Network TV: It Slices! It Dices!

authorsizzletime06 Apr 2008categorytechnology
On television, CBS' "Big Bang Theory" is a traditional, half-hour sitcom about two super-smart dweebs fumbling around their sexy neighbor. On the Internet, that premise is cut to its essence on "Talk Nerdy 2 Me," a series of clips from the show that last less than two minutes.

Medicine Mix-Ups Harm Hospitalized Kids

authorsizzletime06 Apr 2008categorytechnology
Medicine mix-ups, accidental overdoses and bad drug reactions harm roughly one out of 15 hospitalized children, according to the first scientific test of a new detection method. ... "These data and the Dennis Quaid episode are telling us that ... these kinds of errors...

Death by blogging?

authorsizzletime06 Apr 2008categorytechnology

I'm often asked how I am able to work a full-time job during the day and run the now-nearly-full-time political blog (and contribute here). I don't know how I do it, other than I am tired a lot of the time. ...


Top 5 Recreational Drug Experiments

authorsizzletime06 Apr 2008categorytechnology

We are often amazed by the fascinating, and sometimes hilarious, stories that make their way into peer-reviewed journals. Since 1965, chemists have been trying to make the active ingredient of marijuana [pdf]from scratch. Back then, the researchers could only make tetrahydrocannabinol along with its ...


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Musician recorded tracks for Microsoft — and stayed

authorsizzletime06 Apr 2008categorytechnology
Brian Pertl is a good reminder of how vast Microsoft is and how many people are tucked away in various corners of the Redmond campus working... ... Wired in THE GLOBAL market for consumer-electronics products — including PCs, peripherals, traditional electronics products...

Lawyer Who Threatened File-Sharers is Banned For 6 months

authorsizzletime06 Apr 2008categorytechnology

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A lawyer who sent out hundreds of thousands of threatening letters demanding that alleged file-sharers pay 400 euros, has been banned from operating for 6 months. Elizabeth Martin, who had been workin ...

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How a videoblogger from NYC outsmarted a so-called “Social Media …

authorsizzletime06 Apr 2008categorytechnology

April 5, 2008
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I’ve read Naked Conversations, the book by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel that talks about the power of blogging for individuals, businesses, and communities. I’ve even used their examples ...

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Scrabble Tries to Fight a Popular Impostor at Its Own Game (Heather Timmons/New York Times)

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Heather Timmons / New York Times:
Scrabble Tries to Fight a Popular Impostor at Its Own Game  —  RealNetworks is quietly introducing a version of Scrabble on Facebook, despite pledging to save Scrabulous, the wildly popular, unauthorized online version of the board game.  —  In recent weeks, Gamehouse, a division of RealNetworks …