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Cocoa Will Dip, Then Pop
Short-term, cocoa prices will be tepid, but longer term, they will heat up, given growing global demand for quality chocolates.
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Rangers filling all the holes they can
A flurry of moves for the first-place Rangers! The Texas Rangers continued to shore up their infield, trading for Washington Nationals shortstop Cris...
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External Link: Ars Technica reviews the Magic Trackpad
In a painfully well-headlined review, Jacqui Cheng takes on Apple's new Magic Trackpad, and finds that it's both awesome and not-so-awesome. She really likes most of the multi-touch shortcuts that the trackpad can use, but says that precision is an ...
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Hulkageddon III ends with an estimated 288 billion ISK in damage
Much to the dismay of miners everywhere, EVE Online 's infamous Hulkageddon event made a return earlier this month . In this irregularly-scheduled fan-run event, ruthless pilots compete to kill as many mining barges as possible within a short period of ...
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Show and Tell
We speak to Tony Chu, the director behind a short film festival which brings fans and filmmakers together...
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NFL Predictions for 2010 Season: Top 10 Breakout Running Backs
Running back is a fickle position.The window for success is short, leaving them about four to five years to be on top of their game.With the passing of the guard always taking place at the position, there are numerous players primed for breakout ...
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YouTube Embed Code Experiment
YouTube is experimenting with a shorter, more compatible embed code which uses the < iframe > tag. If you choose to use the new embed code style, site visitors will be able to view the embedded video in one of YouTube's Flash or HTML5 players ...
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First Digital Reconstruction Of A City That Has Been Destroyed
City Of Ruins -- Threedonia.com3D like IMAX can be (and usually is) little more than a party trick unless used sparingly or in some way integral to the story. I cant think of a better use for 3-D than this short film City of Ruins ...
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5 Things You Didnt Know About Ian Fleming
Ian Fleming is best known for his terrific series of twelve novels and two short story collections detailing the adventures of British spy James Bond, and he also wrote the childrens classic Chitty Chitty Bang Bang . Lets take a look at five .
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Top 5 Easy BBQ Tips
Hosting a weekend BBQ doesn't have to be a pressure cooker. Here are five quick tips that are packed with flavor when you're short on time.
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The 5pm Quiz: Are They Canadian?
You probably know that Michael J. Fox, Jim Carrey and Dan Aykroyd all hail from the Great White North. And John Candy, Phil Hartman, Rick Moranis, Mike Myers and Martin Short. Oh, and Celine Dion and all those hockey players, too. But how about these ...
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Microsoft to release fix for Windows Shortcut flaw on Monday
Microsoft has announced plans to release of an out-of-band update on Monday to address the Windows Shortcut flaw revealed less than two weeks ago. The software giant has been keeping a close watch on the use of .LNK files exploiting the vulnerability ...
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First Solar Beats, Raises Guidance; Shares Plunge
Zacks.com submits: First Solar Inc. ( FSLR ) surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.60 by 24 cents to reach $1.84 in the second quarter of fiscal 2010. However, it fell short of the year-ago quarterly EPS of $2.11. Operational Performance ...
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Facebook battles privacy and profit
Is the social network's pursuit of short-term profits risking its long-term survival?
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Along with the oil, cleanup jobs vanishing
Uncertainty, like the Gulf's waters, ebbs and flows in this fishing village in Louisiana's southern reaches. Shortly after the oil began gushing more than three months ago, fishing was banned in vast areas of the Gulf of Mexico, and many of the local ...
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Gulf Oil Spill: Officials Want to Minimize Toxic Health Effects, Researcher Says
Some of the short-term health effects of the April accident are known - watery and irritated eyes, skin itching and redness, coughing and shortness or breath or wheezing - there also are many unknown health effects, says a UAB School of Public Health ...
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Senate approves short-term FAA bill
The 15th extension includes additional safety measures, including new training requirements and more instruction hours for pilots.
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SDP leader cuts short holiday
The Social Democratic leader is cutting short her vacation to handle a growing controversy
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Four short links: 30 July 2010 - Game Mechanics, Data Privacy, Wesabe Open Source, and Monkey Economics
The No-Twinkie Database -- These are all the Twinkie Denial Conditions described in my Bad Game Designer, No Twinkie! Designers Notebook columns. Each one is an egregious design error, although many of them have appeared in otherwise great games.
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Personal Finance Daily: Warning signs that investors don't want to miss
Don't miss these top stories:
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Shortcuts: The Benefits of Volunteerism, if the Service Is Real
Even community service done simply to build a rmor college can be a good thing, but there needs to be a connection between the work and the overall issue.
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June Sarpong: Faith in the Future
Last week I had the privilege of being asked to judge Tony Blair's Faith Foundation's Faith Shorts competition which showcased films by young film makers on the theme of faith. Young people from across the globe submitted films, each telling their own ...
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FRANCE: IMF warns France to take action on public deficit
The International Monetary Fund warned France on Friday that it would fail to meet its goal of reducing the public deficit to 3.0 percent of output in 2013 unless it took more action to curb spending.
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The Death of Death & Parenting
[1]Image by law_keven via FlickrDeath & Parenting's life was too short. There's so much more I'd like to write. About death: Paul Harding's Tinkers is the best book I've read all year. About parenting: the kid has discovered the joy of calling ...
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WikiLeaks: The historians start to kick in.
This is going to be a quickie. I know, I've promised that before, but this time, maybe I'll keep my word. As is often the case, I'm a penny short and a day late to the debate about WikiLeak's document dump. It hasn't quite fallen off the front page ...
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Gregory Clark Slips Down the Memory Hole Already
First came Gregory Clarks blockbuster, A Farewell to Alms, which offered a novel theory why the Industrial Revolution happened in England. (Short answer: superior breeding, in the words of the Cato Institutes Jason Kuznicki.) Then came Clark
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President Obama does some Screencasting
Watch a screencast tutorial that's recorded and narrated by President Obama himself. Its a video demo of the new healthcare.gov website.
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New Trouble for Terrorist Who Aided Prosecutors
Abdel Ghani Meskini, who received a short prison term for his role in a failed plot in Los Angeles, has been rearrested.
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Review: NOX Audio Specialist Gaming Headset
Short version: NOXs first entry into the crowded gaming headset market sets itself apart with its portability, comfort, and ease of use. Features: Fold-up design Retractable microphone Xbox 360/PS3 compatibility (with Negotiator adapter) ...
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Thread of the Day: Which Brand Could Be The Next to Go?
In two short years, we've witnessed the demise of a few brands (Hummer, Mercury, Pontiac, Saturn) plus some growth (Tesla) as well. Our economy still appears to be riding out a rough patch and, as we all learned over the previous 24 months, economic ...
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