While I personally believe Conde Nast should give up on trying to produce their new biz magazine, Portfolio (it is a train wreck of a design filled with clueless advertisers who think ‘metrosexuals’ are still a desirable category only to confuse those who actually attempt to read the train wreck of content as currently produced), […]

  Google has rolled out Google Transit out of the Labs and into Google Maps as an fully integrated feature. What’s the big deal? Not much unless you live in one of these cities: Not a very complete list but more will follow one would think. Using Google Transit means that when you look up […]

This company was just reviewed in the WSJ and from checking out their site, there are some odd but cool interior design choices there for different furniture. Bike Furniture has a few really cool designs for chairs up for sale on their web site that are very different.  So if you know a hardcore bike […]

At least we now have hope! According to Entertainment Weekly, the legal battle that’s kept The Lord of the Rings‘ prequel, The Hobbit, hung up for years (what the industry likes to call ‘in turn around’). If you are not in the LOTR ‘know’, a bitter feud has been ongoing between Rings director Peter Jackson […]

Well, a couple of issues of Fortune magazine anyway. Here is a scan of what the cover wrap on the last issue of Business 2.0 said – October 2007, Vol. 8, Number 9: Not that bad a deal really considering what they could have done like give B2 subscribers extended issues for Time For Kids, […]

Wired magazine is launching their own science series on PBS.  Their first show airs tonight, Wednesday, October 3rd at 8/7C.  I just found out about it today via an email notice from them. At some point you will be able to find out more on this link, pbs.org/wiredscience, but right now a lot of the […]

Dongmei Li of Queens, New York, is suing Apple by claimin the company violated price discrimination laws when it slashed the price of the 8-gigabyte iPhone within two months of the iphone’s June debut. According to Li’s lawsuit, filed on September 24 in the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, the price reduction […]

If you are like me and are curious about knowing more about where you live, then you should bookmark this site. For example, if you ship a lot of packages or have a lot shipped to you (hello, ebay!), then it pays to know your zip+4 address (here in the U.S. gentle overseas readers). Additionally, […]

Die Wii scum!  Eat Plasma PS3ers! Microsofties are twirling their mustaches with their first day of sales for Halo 3 exceeding $170 Million.  In one day.  Industry analysts project hardware sales to spike accordingly over the next month for those that see the game as a ‘must have’ since it only can be played on […]

But will it actually take much of a bite out of the Apple? More than 2 million songs – including those by Amy Winehouse, U2 and 50 Cent – will be made available for download from Amazon’s US site, with tracks costing either .89 cents or .99 cents, and albums between $5.99 and $9.99. The […]