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Last week my friend Lindsay and I were making the rounds of the various thrift stores and used furniture stores in Valdosta. It is quite interesting to see what people get rid of and to think of ways to use some of it.
At one of the thrift shops we found three VSU glasses. One of […]
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I just got finished reading Stealing MySpace by Julia Angwin. In it there was this great conversation about the firing of Ross Levinshohn by Peter Chernin, the soon-to-be former COO of News Corps. Here it is: “You’re not happy, are you?” Chernin said. “No, I’m not,” Levinsohn agreed. “This isn’t working out, is it?” Chernin said.
“No, it’s not,” […]
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Lately there has been a lot of flack going on over the Early Termination Fee (ETF) system that the major cellular carriers use to encourage consumers to abide by the length of the contract that they have signed.
Apparently a lot of people are upset that the various cellular carriers are wanting to charge a fee […]
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So the USGS has almost completed the survey of the Bakken Formation. Estimates on the amount of oil contained in the shale formation range from 900 billion to 200 billion barrels. A poster on Slashdot said that “Such a reserve would go a long way toward securing US energy independence.”
What exactly is energy independence? […]
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While watching Shark tonight I saw a commercial for the new Dyson root 6 handheld vacuum cleaner. The commercial was pretty cool. It showed the vacuum cleaner being built, in a Lego-like fashion.
Aside from the coolness of the commercial itself, it occurs to me that the design of the root 6 is quite similar to […]
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