The trendwire on Foodchannel.com has an article on the ‘Slow Food’ movement, and I postulate the positive gains of such a change in societal patterns here at Comob. If Americans are able to host family meals more often there is a cornicopia of developmental benefits in stor for the children and the articple postulates tha [...]
Wow tis the season to get ripped off. Every year we see a “shortage” of something. This year the DS, last year it was GameCube. The list goes on and on. In fact the strange thing is that I went to several local stores (looking for a Nintendo DS) and they no Microsoft’s Xbox’s [...]
This article documents a problem I think is non-trivial. The US is slipping in it’s ability to attract the best science students in the world. Other countries like the UK and Germany are pulling them in. In the long run there are real consequences for not folding the best and brightest into society. My slogan [...]
Here is a post about the advent of conference name tags that are smart. They come in a few technology flavors such as RFID or Bluetooth. The post covers the future as this technology permeates society.
Wired News: Count Calories on the Go.
Nice little article from Wired about how the most popular dieting brands are now weighing in with calorie counters and nutritional guides designed for personal digital assistants and combination PDA-mobile phones.
Weight Watchers International released a program this week for Palm-based gadgets that works hand-in-hand with the company’s online [...]
Bequests make up a major portion of large gifts made to the ACS. Should we consider TV ads featuring bequests? In the UK the idea of leaving a charitable bequest in a will is to be promoted on television for the first time next year in a commercial to be produced by the Legacey Promotion [...]
Businesses and individuals now have the option of donating their computers’ unused processsing time to combat global problems like cancer. IBM is teaming up with groups like the World Health Organization, the National Institute of Health and the Mayo Clinic to create the world Community Grid, a project that will harness unused computing power throughout [...]
Check this article out. So are we starting to beat a dead horse yet? I mean for gosh sake’s, David Collin even bought a T-Shirt to support this browser. What more will it take for you people out there to switch = )
Here’s an article from the NYTimes about Oracle’s buy-out of PeopleSoft. It suggests that consolidation is happening because there are too many software companies. What happens is that the big ones buy the more vulnerable ones, extract a little technology, and, over the long run, induce the customers of the swallowed company to switch over [...]
USC epidemiologists have just spelled out the disparities along race and ethinic lines for cancer incidence and mortality here in California. It’s sort of a work-plan for us for the next decade. I suspect similar disparities exist all across the country. See the last paragraph.
LOS ANGELES (Dec. 14, 2004) – Among Californians, black men face [...]
