August 2012
135 posts
The invitation above fell into our inboxes this morning: Apple is holding an iPad-related “special event” in San Francisco on March 7, at 10 a.m. Pacific Time. Hmm…could it be…the iPad 3?
More than half the world’s 7 billion people now live in cities or towns. More than 1 billion of them are children! What’s this going to look like by 2050? For one thing, 2 out of 3 people will live in urban areas. See which countries will have the most urban growth: http://www.unicef.org/sowc2012/urbanmap/
Hermione went alone and got attacked by a troll
Moaning Myrtle went alone too and was killed by a giant snake.
Katie Bell also went alone and was cursed by an opal necklace.
“I’m going to make a special plea to the press—not just the folks who are here, but also your editors—give this some attention. This is the kind of stuff, what these young people are doing, that’s going to make a bigger difference in the life of our country over the long term than just about…
Fake Grimlock, a caffeine-fueled giant robot dinosaur, has been stomping through the blogs of tech luminaries such as Fred Wilson, Eric Ries and Brad Feld dispensing advice and commentary on the startup scene. Here at CNNMoney, we’re fans of his rather stark perspective and tendency…
“An anonymous coworker—to this day, I don’t know who—had left a pencil-written note on a torn piece of paper with some numbers on it. It showed how much more my male coworkers were making, even though they had less education, training and experience.
I’d been at Goodyear almost 20 years, and was…
