If you read the net much at all (and you must, or you wouldn’t be here), you’ve seen the photos making the rounds: a company in Germany offers a cheeseburger in a can: Well, at last, some brave soul over in Germany actually tracked one down, bought it, cooked it (you boil the can in […]
Now it’s Google — the absolute favorite of Wall Street — that’s getting hammered: More than $11 billion (£5.5 billion) was wiped off the market value of Google late last night as the internet darling missed sales and profit targets after years of defying gravity. The performance over the final three months of the year […]
…the more it’s deja vu all over again. Or something: Watch it quick before YouTube gets a take-down notice. I don’t know who Steve Adams is (though you can see his website here), but the sentiment of the video is strikingly apt. Hat tip to (wait for it) Mormon Mommy Wars. . UPDATE: You can […]
For those of you who did not see the story on mortgages in last weekend’s 60 Minutes, they revealed America’s first glimpse at a trend that is a serious threat to our economy; people intentionally defaulting on their mortgages. This except is from Minyanville’s professor Kevin Depew’s Five Things You Need To Know: (my comments […]
All the way back in August, I raised concerns about another tech bubble building in light of the valuation of VMWare shooting up to nearly $20 billion on the day of its IPO. Of course, VMWare’s market cap continued to climb, sitting at a high of $30 billion as recently as a few days ago. […]
From the New York Post’s page 6 section, this gem of a cartoon that sums up the effect of this week’s endorsement of Illinois Senator Obama by Senator Kennedy, while at the same time lampooning Kennedy and Clinton. With the Republican race now looking more and more like the Mac & Cheese express, I once […]
Thanks to co-worker and friend Rob Wade for sending me this great video of someone getting a back seat ride in an F/A-18. During my days in the “short haircut club for men” we would sometimes take people up in the back seat of our RF-4B’s, though most frequently it happened when we were outside […]
The DoD has begun to discuss high level elements of a project to build a hypersonic UAV system, currently working under the name Falcon Blackswift. The details that have emerged thus far are quite tantalizing. From Wired: According to the few details available on Blackswift, Lockheed Martin’s famed Skunk Works shop is the main contractor […]
There’s a reason why we Americans still have an inferiority complex when it comes to British diction, erudition and (to a certain extent) humor: Can you name one, even one member of the US Congress who could write and deliver a speech such as the one given by William Hague above? Sigh. Hat tip to […]
…I wish that I had won the ‘geek lottery’ back in the dot.com boom: The robot comes with working lights, a build-inWenn Sie mehr Hilfe brauchen,wenn sie kostenlos Pokerspiele online , um die Aktion Buttons zu verstehen, gehen Sie bitte zu Das Spiel spielen. sound system, and “over 500 voice tracks by Richard Tufeld, the […]
