“I’m in favor of anything that brings traffic in the store,” said Ms. Reidy of Simon & Schuster. “If it’s toys or games that brings a family into the bookstore, then I say fine.” Ms. Reidy from Simon & Schuster echoes to the New York Times what is happening with major bookstore chains. The e-book [...]
Hey Starbucks, looks like you’re trailing as far as trends go. No wifi is the new rage at coffee shops :)
Data displays an oscillatory behavior, so therefore, it is Systems Biology. [from here]
Gotta respect a famous blogger (Barry Ritholtz) that links to Things I Would Do to Bang Scarlett Johansson. ps: also, read this.
After playing again on friday with a friend’s iPad for 20 minutes I started thinking about simplified computing. Sure I love my command line, matlab, perl, python, you name it. But I also love to pick something up and not have to figure out stuff I don’t want to. I want to be productive. Quickly. [...]
(Right, Larry Downing/Reuters) The Economist photoshopped the picture from Reuters for their June 19 cover. I don’t think it’s a big deal, but the NYT has a big spiel about it.
I’ve been reading rants about the outcome of the Ghana-Uruguay game, the one where a Uruguay player got sent off on the last minute of overtime after stopping a ball from crossing the line with his hands. Here’s my take on it as I’m getting tired of reading a bunch of crap from people that [...]