Dowbrigade

Great business model over there on the Weather
Channel.  They scare the bejeezus out of everyone up and down the
East Coast a week before a storm even approaches, when it could still
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Many
of my wife’s Ecuadorian relative are in the house for a visit this weekend.
One brother, one sister, one aunt, one uncle. The kitchen is full
of strange, familiar smells (I lived three years [...]

This illustration for a space elevator was created by Pat Rawlings, Science
Applications International Corporation.

Space elevators. Arthur C.
Clarke first envisioned [...]

NEW YORK (AFP) – Sports equipment giant Nike Inc. agreed
to pay 1.5 million dollars to settle a lawsuit alleging it lied about
conditions at its low-cost Asian suppliers. [...]

The latest innovation on college campuses is the use of small handheld Personal Response System transmitters. Especially popular at State schools with large-enrollment classes – where it is hard for a professor or TA to keep track of hundreds of undergraduates – the devices can take attendance electronically, allow students to request the floor [...]

Note to the Thrusday Night Berkman crowd
– best way to push the world-wide blogging movement closer to Critical
Mass – get the Dalai Lama to start a Blog!. [...]