Spiegel OnlineBarack Obama's visit causes excitement in GermanyTelegraph.co.uk - 41 minutes agoBarack Obama is flying in to Germany today to deliver a major...
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Barack Obama's visit causes excitement in Germany - Telegraph.co.uk
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Thought of the Day
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Haven't we reached an odd moment in our history when the burgeoning consensus among the media is that one of Barack Obama's big problems is that he's too good at...
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San Diego Comic Con Starts On Thursday, Uniting Nerds And Geeks Alike
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The world's largest comic convention, Comic-Con International begins on Thursday and promises to draw fans from all over the world in a celebration of all things...
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James Heffernan: Exclusive: Advance Copy of McCain's New Op-Ed for the New York Times
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My friends, now that Barack Obama has explained why he wants to cut and run precipitously from Iraq just sixteen months after he becomes president (which he never...
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Nintendo: Hardcore gamers 'critically important to us'
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Filed under: Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii, E3, Business, Casual "Absolutely the hard-core gamer crowd is critically important to us." Which would explain why so much of...
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7. Space Chimps - $7.3M
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Ham III has some pretty big shoes to fill. Or he would, if he actually wore shoes. His grandfather was the first chimp in space, but all Ham III wants to do is wow crowds...
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next up
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Next up: I've been to O'Reilly ETech since ETech 2002, and was planning to have 2008 off. But then I saw the sessions: tangible internet objects, the brain and society,...
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The Conference Report Card: Google I/O
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google I/O Originally uploaded by sogrady Following Google’s inaugural I/O conference, the question on everyone’s minds precisely what you’d...
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2008 Fiat Cinquecento Abarth Test Drive: Tiny Italian Poise and 40-Plus MPGs
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We test drove the 2008 Fiat Cinquecento Abarth in the company of supercars and the little hatchback received a standing ovation every time. People loved it and judging by...
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Small Town News
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The Telluride Daily Planet in Colorado reports on the town's recent music festival:Aside from dozens of parking violations and some illegal camping, there were few...
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Guideal - psst…fancy becoming a tour guide?
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Guideal is an interesting little idea. It’s basically an online portal for amateur and professional tour guides. The idea is to harness the wisdom of the crowds to...
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LIFT 07, the people behind the memories.
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LIFT 07 has come and gone, and for the second time it left a sweet aftertaste.The organization of the conference this year was impeccable (non-collaborative Wi-Fi...
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Don't Overstate Green Claims
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Today's New York Times features an article entitled Cooling Off on Dubious Eco-Friendly Claims that hits a core theme in Satisfied Customers Tell Three Friends, Angry...
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Mr. Obama Visits the World
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PARIS -- "Alors," said a gendarme watching President John F. Kennedy step off Air Force One at Orly Airport on May 31, 1961, "he's a real all-American boy, that one." ...
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Disaster Tourism
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While many people head to cheerful places for summer vacation, some are spending their down time at dumps and burned-out mines. Why are people visiting man-made disasters...
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Singing with the fishes
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The Sashimi Tabernacle Choir is an art car project by Richard Carter, John Schroeter (Houston, TX), and some thirty volunteers. The car incorporates 250 singing Billy...
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The post-quake entertainment blackout
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Reports from the net and Twitter this morning that as part of the three days of official earthquake mourning, scheduled to begin this afternoon at 2:28PM, many and...
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Farnborough Airshow 2008
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Today I managed to sneak into the Farnborough Airshow under a trade pass to sample the delights of this bi-annual event without the public crowds of the great unwashed in...
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It's All Too Much
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I moved to California hauling a lot of boxes still unopened from at least two previous purges of epic proportions. Sound at all familiar? It's All Too Much is a terrific...
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Scripting News for 7/11/2008
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Why I don’t like ‘crowd sourcing’ On Twitter, Jay Rosen asks why I don’t like the term crowdsourcing. (He says hate, but that’s way...