Attention all evil geniuses and wannabe super villains, I am guessing Villain Source is just for you! Ever wonder where the super evil go to scheme and plot? It could be here. Look at some of the wonderful advice that you can find: THEY’LL KNOW. NEVER BLUFF WITH SUPERWEAPONS. If you’re going to freeze London, […]
Japan is a wonderful and fascinating place. It has a long proud tradition of a warrior culture, that at the end of WW2 was invalidated and pushed to the far corners of Japanese society. Japan was all about peace and happiness. With a huge US presence in multiple bases across Japan, the people shifted their […]
Word from the New Scientist that a group of researchers are working up a detailed SETI search on a nearby star that is specifically selected because of it’s similarities to our sun. From New Scientist The star, called HIP 56948, lies a little more than 200 light years from Earth. Its size, mass, temperature, and […]
Sometimes I think that all wit and humor has been driven from public discourse through poltical correctness and mindless subjugation to political and social “causes”. Then I wander into something like this (From a source I usually don’t think highly of). From The San Francisco Chronicle – A reaction to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s claim at Columbia […]
Seems that in Scotland, sightings of the Loch Ness monster are down, way down! This is causing a bit of concern amongst the locals that a shy Nessie will result in fewer tourists coming to the Loch to try and catch a glimpse of the world’s most famous mythological beastie. From MSNBC: Loch Ness monster […]
As I mentioned yesterday, I was eagerly running down information on something I had caught wind of – that banks in the UK were in a liquidity crunch to cover their positions, and rather than go to the Bank of England to get more money they were instead turning to the EU central bank. Now […]
Last month the US Federal Reserve cut interest rates a full ½ a percentage point. Some folks were surprised by this (myself included) due to the fact that many economic factors (such as the stock market) were near multi-year highs, and the economy in general was thought to be chugging along nicely. In reality what […]
The technology we use to drive mashup / content based integration sites like Hardtack is based around RSS and enterprise content syndication. As such I spend a lot of time tinkering with RSS and syndication tools others have built. One fun example is Feedster, which lets you search through RSS feeds for specific topics (although […]
I will confess I am a lucky man. I was fortunate enough to marry a woman who is in many ways as nerdy as I am, which makes so many aspects of a technical life a lot easier. Thanks to her, we now know of LiveScience.com’s top 10 ways to destroy the Earth! 10. Total […]
Inflation – American Consumers Fighting Back
If you believe some of the negative financial press the American masses are a fickle mob of spendthrifts that mindlessly blow everything they have and then some without a care. In contrast to that, I offer a story from the Wall Street Journal: Food Makers Struggle To Pass On High Costs High commodity prices have […]
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