Posts Tagged ‘ america ’

There’s been a very interesting little “discussion” going around what we used to call the blogosphere. TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington spent the previous week at LeWeb, in Paris, where in response to some questions, he said that Europeans love life too much to generate the biggest technology success stories. They have too many 2-hour lunches...
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I noticed with some degree of surprise this morning that I might know the future president of the US: Barack Obama. However, that’s exactly what LinkedIn‘s likeness algorithm told me. Perhaps I am more powerful than I know. Seriously, in the past months, LinkedIn’s “people you may know” feature has come up with some...
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It’s just about that ludicrous … I don’t like their continual reference to a black individual, however. It rubs me the wrong way, and the reality of the current meltdown is that it’s colorblind, and caused probably much more by middle-class white people trying to live in McMansions than any other class of people.
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US citizens should be worried about this: Hidden deep in the Senate housing legislation is a sweeping provision inserted by Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) that affects the privacy and operation of nearly all of America’s small businesses.The provision, which was added by the bill’s managers without debate two weeks ago, would require the nation’s...
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You gotta love this quote: “It’s so disappointing,” said Linda Wilmesherr as she peered through binoculars at water pouring through a gap that appeared to be 30 feet wide. “With all the guns in this county, couldn’t we kill a muskrat?” The poor woman is of course dealing with the possibility of her house...
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