 Music in A Digital Age with Business Week's Jon Fine The question of the future of music in the digital age provokes a level of curiosity that extends beyond the legal, technological, and economic issues and reaches into the realm of existential uncertainty. As the way we listen to music changes, will music itself follow suit? Business Week's media columnist Jon Fine and three audiophile bloggers weigh in.
  
Video Killed the Campaign-jingle Writer
RBC Yes, and fire burns. Obama is then doomed, as will.i.am is no brow, at best. (I wonder if "I got it from my mama" is meant...
Labor's Fighting Back
Angry Bear I know, start firing away about the need to not tie the bosses hands so tight, free markets in labor...etc, etc, etc....
Selling Sex Is OK and Child Abuse Isn’t
will wilkinson I think we can all grasp that it possible to reject some moral distinctions and accept others. In this case, it would seem... 
Tough Times for Turkey’s Generals
Mesh Turkey’s democracy has long rested on a delicate equilibrium between the guardians of the unitary secular-nationalist...
The Games Terrorists Play
the monkey cage While the paper is still a work in progress, I worry that this is one of those cases where game theorists reach confident...
Unrest in Tibet
rconversation The Chinese system of Internet censorship and media propaganda may have a lot of holes, but when tested by events like... 
A Brief History of the Credit Crisis
Random Walk To Wealth Its hard to say where it all began, but one of the first places it reared its ugly head was in the private equity market....
How To Strike a Work and Life Balance
Stephen Covey With today’s technology, multitaskers are using PDAs, cellphones, text messaging and emails to stay in connected 24...
Straight Talk from Buffett
Peridot Capitalist One of the great things about listening to Warren Buffett speak, and I suspect one reason why thousands gather each year... 
GE's Immelt Takes on The Ideaologues
GristMill Immelt's outburst came toward the end of a Q&A session that saw him repeatedly assailed by ideological conservatives angry...
Does Language Reflect Biology or Culture?
ebbolles One of the biggest controversies to emerge so far at the Evolang conference in Barcelona concerns the eternal split that...
Defense Department: Remote Control Sharks
the oysters garter You know you’ve seen this one: A normal animal is given a robot brain by well-meaning scientists. The scientists promise... 
An Open Letter To Will Ferrell
the reel addict Dear Mr. Ferrell, So let me cut right to the chase: you need to stop making sports movies. After KICKING & SCREAMING,...
A Little Travel
Project Marmite Eleven years ago, I arrived in Paris by train with only a backpack and a guidebook. This time, I arrived by rail with a...
Architecture in Dubai
Lebbeus Woods One thing for sure, Rem Koolhaas doesn’t hedge his bets. He also knows how to stick his neck out and not lose his head.... 
And With The First Pick. The Miami Dolphins Select, Forrest Gump?
ncaagridirongab Bill Parcells would prefer to go with a defensive player here, but can’t resist a player who scores nearly every time...
Tats of the MLB
homer derby The artwork, the colors, the personalized meanings, the fact that someone would sit through an hour or more of someone...
Watch March Madness From The Comfort of Your Laptop
lifehacker March Madness is just a week away, and this year you've got more ways than ever to catch the action no matter where you... 
A Great Love Story
uniquely priya My wife is a happy person with the ability to see the positive in a situation. Her cheerful disposition helps her make...
Dear Crack Whore
Certifiable Princess I am writing to thank you for being the low life piece of scum that you are. Not only did you feel it was okay to smash...
Metaphors For Pain
Blistered Avalon When I was little, I dreamed of being chased. Sometimes, the assailant was the thumbtacks hanging posters above the head... |
Ross Perot
Children of the '90s may remember him best from Dana Carvey's impersonations of him on Saturday Night Live, but big ears and pie charts aside, Ross Perot was the most successful third-party candidate since Theodore Roosevelt in 1912. Running on a platform of isolationism, fiscal responsibility, and...
 
Iraq - 4,000 Deaths & 5 Years
So then with numbers like that, why aren't Americans more passionate... in
one way or the other. That's not to say that people don't have an opinion.
Leaving now would be a disaster... or... pack our bags, we should have
never gone in the first place... or a combination of the two. And sure,
opinions have heated as the election gains momentum. But hardened opinions
are a far cry from the Vietnam-era dove/hawk conviction. So maybe it's
because of numbers like that. 4,000 deaths is a lot, but perhaps not a
number that many Americans would equate with 5 years of warfare....
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