Thank you Steve. You will be missed.
I don't own any Apple products, and never have, but it is hard to deny the effect that Steve Jobs has had on things I take for granted.
I don't own any Apple products, and never have, but it is hard to deny the effect that Steve Jobs has had on things I take for granted.
It seems that just about everyone is happy about the D.O.J. moving to block the proposed AT&T buy out of T-Mobile. Has anyone given any consideration to what happens if the merger doesn't go through?
T-Mobile has been a struggling fourth place company for quite a while.
Israeli raid called off after Facebook slip.
More than 2.6 million people follow President Obama on Twitter -- or so they thought. The president told a youth audience in Shanghai on Sunday that he has never used Twitter.
“I have never used Twitter, but I’m an advocate of technology and not restricting Internet access," Obama said during the town hall. "My thumbs are too clumsy to type in things on the phone."
Then why own a Blackberry?
Weather or not you are a fan of Sarah Palin, this article has some great information about how people use technology, how campaigns should and do use it, and (indirectly) how Republicans don't use it.
Sarah Palin wants to friend you
(CNN) -- Sarah Palin appears on Oprah on Monday to mark the launch of her book, "Going Rogue." She'll follow up with an extensive interview with Barbara Walters, a multicity book tour and appearances on the Fox News Channel and talk radio.
She'll grab plenty of headlines. As you read about Palin's old-media tour, it's important to remember that she's also a pioneer in the political use of new social media. Not that she gets any credit.
Whole article here. Found via Smart Brief on Social Media.
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By Paul Hudson
Climate correspondent, BBC News |
Average temperatures have not increased for over a decade
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This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998.
But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures.
And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise.
So what on Earth is going on?
Read the rest of the article here.
Is main stream media finally starting to understand that the facts are not all in, and that the verdict is not decided? Probably not, but there seems to be a trend towards questioning the claims of the Al Gores of the world.This picture pretty much sums it up.
By PATRICIA COHENPublished: August 12, 2009It’s not all that surprising that Yale University Press would be wary of reprinting notoriously controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in a forthcoming book. After all, when the 12 caricatures were first published by a Danish newspaper a few years ago and reprinted by other European publications, Muslims all over the world angrily protested, calling the images — which included one in which Muhammad wore a turban in the shape of a bomb — blasphemous. In the Middle East and Africa some rioted, burning and vandalizing embassies; others demanded a boycott of Danish goods; a few nations recalled their ambassadors from Denmark. In the end at least 200 people were killed.So Yale University and Yale University Press consulted two dozen authorities, including diplomats and experts on Islam and counterterrorism, and the recommendation was unanimous: The book, “The Cartoons That Shook the World,” should not include the 12 Danish drawings that originally appeared in September 2005. What’s more, they suggested that the Yale press also refrain from publishing any other illustrations of the prophet that were to be included, specifically, a drawing for a children’s book; an Ottoman print; and a sketch by the 19th-century artist Gustave Doré of Muhammad being tormented in Hell, an episode from Dante’s “Inferno” that has been depicted by Botticelli, Blake, Rodin and Dalí.
