Instead of Trading Up, Adding a High-Style Shed
Monday, September 15th, 2008Tiny, high-style prefabricated sheds have become popular recently as an alternative to trading up in a housing slump.
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Where to Keep Cash When No Investment Seems Safe
Monday, September 15th, 2008The market is bad. What is a high-net-worth investor to do with all the cash they’ve pulled out?
How Dropbox ended my search for seamless sync on Linux
Monday, September 15th, 2008Ars tests Dropbox, a shiny new cross-platform file synchronization tool that delivers seamless platform integration and a very nice feature set.
Obama Leads In Foreign Policy, Bush Follows
Monday, September 15th, 2008Will McCain now condemn the Bush administration’s decision to go into Pakistan? Or was this idea only naive ten months ago? Was it only naive because it came from Obama? The Obama campaign should be making a much bigger deal about this.
Diary entry may offer proof that baseball came from England
Monday, September 15th, 2008LONDON (AP) — Baseball is as American as … tea and crumpets?
Google search finds seafaring solution
Monday, September 15th, 2008with the launch of its own “computer navy”.
The company is considering deploying the supercomputers necessary to operate its internet search engines on barges anchored up to seven miles (11km) offshore.
Researchers find racial bias in virtual worlds
Thursday, September 11th, 2008“Real-world behaviours and racial biases could carry forward into virtual worlds such as Second Life, social psychologists say.
According to a study that was conducted in There.com, virtual world avatars respond to social cues in the same ways that people do in the real world.”
Love Food? Think Twice Before Jumping In
Thursday, August 28th, 2008Running a restaurant has perhaps never been so tempting, thanks in part to the Food Network and celebrity chefs, but statistics show it is still very easy to fail.
Front-Row Seats on Broadway, if You Dare
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008Pedestrians love the new traffic-free Midtown esplanade, but some are concerned about the traffic next to them.
Heaven’s Angels
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008Rescue Ink members — gruff and beefy men, tattooed from head to toe — look like bruisers. But show them a lost kitten or an abused pit bull, and they become tenderhearted rescuers.
