Man, it’s been a while since I’ve posted. check out the main reason why.
Five members of Cuban U-23 team missing from hotel -
I’m sure they were just wandering the street promoting the Cuban health care system….
So McCain actually has some guts when talking middle-east, but there is something more domestic to be worried about with […]
Tags: politics · technology
Blackboard wins Lawsuit over E-learning Patent
Patent lawsuits are hot. If I were in law school right now, I’d be more akin to technology issues, and IP is the biggest issue around. There are several big trends in intellectual property today. I’ll mention a couple of them: patent hoarding and overly-broad patenting. […]
Tags: capitalism · health care · politics
Chinese officials are doing their best to prepare the propaganda pitch for the Olympics. “The great firewall of china? No. No. There’s no such thing!” Techdirt reports, “According to Fallows’ sources, during the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, the Great Firewall will be mostly turned off, so that visiting foreigners won’t notice any problems […]
Tags: olympics · politics
This is what happens when governments gives hand outs. Because the government is supposedly authorized to subsidize new buildings, they now must decide whether a few historic buildings are blighted enough to give money away supporting their demolition. Blighted, of course, being undefined and up to interpretation of a government official’s favor pocket. Say […]
Tags: capitalism · politics · religion
“You can smell one from blocks away. The grilled bacon, twisted around a wiener, is topped with grilled onions and a mountaintop of diced tomatoes, ketchup, mustard and mayonnaise. Then one whole grilled green poblano chile is plopped impossibly on top. You take a bite and think, This is so good, no wonder it’s illegal!”
Illegal? […]
Tags: capitalism · politics