Are we in the Second Great Dot-Com Bubble, or has the Internet Economy actually just become . . . the economy? With tech bloggers suddenly morphing into venture capitalists and social/mobile/geo-located/gamified startups springing up ...READ»
Is there anything that flowcharts can't do? (Just search our archives: we think not!) Surely making a kick-ass movie requires a nimbleness of creative thought that could never be captured in a rote set of instructions -- we all saw ...READ»
You are a midlevel employee at a large company, and today is the annual Memorial Day picnic. You mill around sipping a wine cooler. As you turn to head toward the volleyball court, someone bumps into you, spilling Frito pie on your madras shirt. You look up and find yourself face-to-face with your company’s CEO.READ»
If the noise-musical "Stomp" were reimagined with Doris Day household appliances instead of trashcan-soled stage performers, it might sound something like "The Stupid Orchestra," a self-deprecatingly named installation by Michael ...READ»
The word "banker" in footballing is the popular slur for the blind man masquerading as a referee who's just given the wrong side a penalty. Bet you won't find that in Goldman Sachs' 75-page guide to the 2010 World Cup; it's part ...READ»
Switzerland, that gnomic country full of gold, cheese, and cuckoo clocks (although we all know now Orson Welles was wrong on that last note) is a curious mix of the hi- and low-tech--and guess which camp this traffic-calming ...READ»
Dear Mark Zuckerberg,I'm writing to you (big fan of yours. Biiiiig fan) to suggest that, when the inevitable book deals from publishers come winging your way, you young thruster, you, that I ghostwrite it. Not your memoirs--let's ...READ»
Nadya Suleman, aka Octomom (or, to give her her full superhero name, Tetradecamom, since she's got 14 kids--at least, the last time she looked, for all I know it could be 19 and rising) has encountered a spot of financial bother*. ...READ»
There are many facets to what makes a good, innovative company, these days. Great products. Competitive prices. Top-notch service and support. A symbiotic relationship with one's customers. Even the Pentagon, it seems, is in on that ...READ»
Last October, WikiLeaks got a hold of the U.K.'s Ministry of Defense's Defence Manual of Security, a 2,400-page, restricted document designed to help government officials "maintain information security in the
face of hackers, ...READ»
If you think that Doritos has gone down the same road that Cheetos did, with its supersized snack--the kind of thing you'd need to buy an extra seat for should you be popping one of these on a flight--you're wrong. They've just come ...READ»
An 8-bit groom rescues his princess in this geeked-out digital wedding invitation--watch the latest proof that, for hardcore gamer couples, love is a battlefield.READ»
Looks like we're not the only ones ranting about lackluster Super Bowl ads. According to a new study from Forrester and the Association of National Advertisers, the majority of TV ad buyers (62 percent) say they think their ...READ»
