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Good article in the Merc about EA’s stumble with their bet on the PS3 and their absence on the Wii. I have written on several occasions about what a disaster the PS3 is for Sony, and in the months that have passed things just haven’t gotten any better for them. Some analysts and investors are [...]
Hot rodders are a lot like the early days of technology when renegade engineers invented things without much consideration for what precedents had been set. Turns out these old hot rodders have a few miles left in them. Crower calculates that the Steam-o-Lene boosts the work it gets from a gallon of gas by 40 [...]
Did anyone else notice that Joost sponsored an IndyCar on Sunday? And they ran an Indy channel. PS- I damn near severed off my finger yesterday so my posts are going to be rather short for the next week as I can’t type for shit right now. Technorati Tags: Joost, IndyCar
Fisher House helps military families in their time of need. Soldiers’ Angels will pair you up with a Soldier, Sailor, Airman, or Marine who doesn’t get mail or packages from home. Spirit of America is a way to help people in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Africa by responding to requests from military personnel on individual projects [...]
Fellow Irregulars Josh Greenbaum and Jason Wood have drawn swords over Josh’s Salesforce.com predictions. Josh Greenbaum: "So how can I be sure that Salesforce.com is the next Siebel? To be sure, I’m more ahead of the curve today than I was in 2002. By the time my second column had come out on Siebel’s survey [...]
Two interestings pieces of news related to economics and major cultural issues that are destined to be swept under the rug by MSM because the data just doesn’t fit their narrative. First we have, in the WSJ, a CBO report that disputes the widely held conventional wisdom that the poor are getting poorer while the [...]
AC Transit, the East Bay transit authority, is now offering wifi on some of their buses, 90 buses in total. Targeting commuters with the service, the transit authority hopes the networking capabilities will lure drivers out of their cars and onto the buses. Good idea but count me a little skeptical. First and foremost, it’s [...]
Texas is a progressive state in some respects, certainly so with regard to the scam that are traffic cameras. Texas lawmakers have laid the smackdown on red light and speed cameras in a large manner. HB.922 states "A municipality may not implement or operate an automated traffic control system with respect to a highway under [...]
The thing that is troubling about this story is that this guy did what a lot of us do on a regular basis, use someone’s free wifi (in a business) without actually patronizing the business A Michigan man who used a coffee shop’s unsecured Wi-Fi to check his e-mail from his car could have faced [...]
"Welcome aboard! You are member 1,378,039!" Kayak rocks. Not only does their search enginer deliver solid results with a compelling user experience, but they don’t ask you to sign up for anything and even then they only ask after you have done something through the service. Nice. Tags: Kayak