Source: Barron's Online
The Barron's magazine I joined in the early 1980s, back in the days of ticker tape and martini lunches, was an astonishing place—chockablock with talent: fast, graceful, savvy writers like Jim Grant, Peter Brimelow, and Kate Wel ...
Full article at: Barron's Online
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Source: Bay of Plenty Times
Georgie Pie. Really? This is a pie that flew highest in 1995. The mother ship outlet was at Greenlane in Auckland, a two-minute walk from where I flatted with five other university students. Georgie Pie could have been built espe ...
Full article at: Bay of Plenty Times
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Source: Scientopia
Terry, over at SmallPondScience, has a post up about the misuse of the term "deadwood" and how many who are labeled as such are still deadicated to their jobs, but have inadvertently drifted away from what we ...
Full article at: Scientopia
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Source: The Market Oracle
Welcome to the official beginning of the digital age! When I first heard that the Internet had finally come to fruition in 1994, I could hardly contain my excitement as I'd been waiting for it since I got m ...
Full article at: The Market Oracle
More like this May 14 2013, 1:05pm CDT
Source: Jesus Was A Wiganer
Now, I know what you’re thinking. “How on earth did he have time to travel home and type up this article so quickly?” Well, it’s quite simple, really – I ‘borrowed’ Uncle Dave’s helicopter from the roof of the town hall and parked it behind the Wembley a ...
Full article at: Jesus Was A Wiganer
More like this May 11 2013, 2:38pm CDT
Source: The Big Lead
Fernando Tatis has been out of baseball since playing 43 games for the Mets in 2010. Sometime in the three years between then and now, he’s opened up the Accessories folder on his computer and discovered the existence of MS Paint. The man who once hit ...
Full article at: The Big Lead
More like this May 9 2013, 1:15pm CDT
Source: Engadget
Each week Joshua Fruhlinger contributes This is the Modem World , a column dedicated to exploring the culture of consumer technology. I've known my friend Jeff since I was 2 years old. He was one year ahead of me in school ...
Full article at: Engadget
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