Archive for January, 2008
Ron Paul
What I’m Reading Today…
How Email Brings You Closer to the Guy in the Next Cubicle
Email Missing From Cheney’s Office
Oh No, Mr. Bill… Falls Asleep?
Next-gen Apple MacBook Pros to gain multi-touch trackpad
Articulating the Wisconsin Idea
[submitted by Eric Sorensen]
From iTunes U, which lets students take educational podcasts on the road; to the computational tools running on Xserves, which allow students to see and explore the structure, function, and behavior of molecules; to the Digital Academic Television Network, which delivers live TV via a network connection using QuickTime as a [...]
Today is MacWorld
This is the time of year where Apple nutcases go berserk - present company not excluded, but this particular year there seems to be a little extra excitement on the web. Part of that is due to Apple’s marketing spin of placing banners and billboards all over San Francisco saying, “There’s Something In The [...]
Will Apple Rollout WiMax This Week?
Sources are suggesting that Apple may include WiMax, the high-speed, long-range wireless broadband technology, in an ultraportable 13″ notebook computer, and possibly across the entire MacBook Pro line. Just part of the rumor mill flying in preparation for Steve Jobs’s Macworld keynote next week in San Francisco, of course, but our source gives it a [...]
Bill Gates to “Retire”
OMG, I was ROTF LMAO! This is a video from the CES (consumer electronics show).
Accelerate Wisconsin - Venture Capital
Interesting that after my last post on CW, I should stumble across this little nugget:
Accelerate Wisconsin seeks to improve early-stage, venture capital performance
By WTN News • 01/07/08 • © WTN Media.
Madison, Wis. - As part of the next phase of his Grow Wisconsin agenda, Gov. Jim Doyle has announced Accelerate Wisconsin, a new initiative designed [...]
Detroit Joins The Web 2.0 World
General Motors has launched a new blog, GMnext, which is built on my favorite blogging platform, WordPress. They’ve also mentioned a Wiki is on the way as well. But the most interesting fact about the announcement is that the GM executives are the ones who will be doing the blogging.
This is kind of [...]
The Method Of Nature
Written in 1841 by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
(Excerpt of an Oration delivered before the Society of the Adelphi, in Waterville College, Maine, August 11, 1841)
Whilst the multitude of men degrade each other, and give currency to desponding doctrines, the scholar must be a bringer of hope, and must reinforce man against himself. I [...]
Where Does Wausau Go?
What an amazing year 2007 was. It’s brought about a a lot of change in our community, and in some ways, I myself will never be the same.
A few months ago, I was walking into my friend Forest Young’s drugstore to pick up a prescription. As I entered, I was quickly asked to [...]
