">[news.yahoo.com]AP - Congress responded speedily to voters' angst over rising grocery prices and $4-a-gallon gasoline Thursday, bucking President Bush's veto threats with lopsided votes to boost food stamps and farm subsidies after ordering Bush to quit pouring oil into the nation's emergency reserves.
">[news.yahoo.com]AP - The actor who helped glamorize archaeology on the big screen is lending his star power to the Archaeological Institute of America.
US women to play 2 games against Brazil The Associated Press - 42 minutes ago CHICAGO (AP) — The US women's team will play Brazil, its conqueror in last year's World Cup, in two exhibition games this summer. ...
"That means they may not be able to fund it to the level it needs."
With its scheduled 2009 launch of JavaFX, Sun Microsystems is taking on two entrenched and well-funded adversaries: Microsoft's Silverlight and Adobe's AIR. via LinuxInsider
Daily Diversion: Play These Games, Help Computers Get Smarter Wall Street Journal Blogs, NY - 55 minutes ago Gwap (that stands for “games with a purpose”) is a new free online game site that lets players square off against each other in those and other pursuits, ...
The Hollywood private investigator, Anthony Pellicano, was found guilty in a federal court in Los Angeles of racketeering for using wiretaps and other tactics to target the rich and famous.
">[news.yahoo.com]Reuters - BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd
plans to launch a touch-screen version of the
wireless e-mail device in the third quarter as an answer to
Apple Inc's iPhone, the Wall Street Journal reported
on Thursday.
AP - John Phillip Law, the strikingly handsome 1960s movie actor who portrayed an angel in the futuristic "Barbarella" and a lovesick Russian seaman in "The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming," has died. He was 70.
">[news.yahoo.com]Reuters - T-Pain led the nominees for the
eighth annual BET Awards, an event celebrating the leading
lights in African-American music, film and sport, organizers
said on Thursday.
">[news.yahoo.com]AP - Daniel Slater's new production of "Lohengrin" wasn't necessarily vintage Wagner, but it deserves praise as a thoughtful and tasteful take on the medieval legend and certainly none of the boos it received on opening night.
Harvard Law and Berkman Center scholar Yochai Benkler and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales deconstruct Wikipedia and discuss Internet-inspired peer production models.
Harvard Law and Berkman Center scholar Yochai Benkler and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales deconstruct Wikipedia and discuss Internet-inspired peer production models.
Harvard Law and Berkman Center scholar Yochai Benkler and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales deconstruct Wikipedia and discuss Internet-inspired peer production models.
Now-corporate social network reportedly pulls plug on a New York office beer pong tournament against InterActiveCorp's CollegeHumor for "legal and PR" reasons.
Now-corporate social network reportedly pulls plug on a New York office beer pong tournament against InterActiveCorp's CollegeHumor for "legal and PR" reasons.
RIM is planning to introduce a touch-screen answer to Apple's iPhone with a new BlackBerry planned for the third quarter, according to The Wall Street Journal.
RIM is planning to introduce a touch-screen answer to Apple's iPhone with a new BlackBerry planned for the third quarter, according to The Wall Street Journal.
">[news.yahoo.com]Reuters - From Manolo Blahnik high heels to
designer dresses, the materialism of the characters in
television's "Sex and the City" has made the movie version a
marketing dream that some companies are paying for dearly and
at least one is getting for free.