“That’s nice kid, but I’ll bet my home theater bitch-slaps yours.”
- Mixed Messages: New home sales continue to crater, but the economy seems to be humming along anyway.
- There are reasons you don’t outsource a war â just ask the State Department.
- Bad new for everybody: All types of alcohol raise the risk of breast cancer in women. Male scientists said to be hard at work on a new, non-carcinogenic inhibitions inhibitor.
- Researchers at Northwestern University think Alzheimer’s disease may actually be “type-3 diabetes.” Yeah, they didn’t know there was a third type either.
- Beginning of the end for iTunes? The DRM dam breaks as Amazon opens its own online music store, selling all songs without copy protection and for as low as $.89.
- Halo 3 makes $170 million in 24 hours (the best debut by a video game ever), clobbering the opening-day haul of every Hollywood blockbuster ever released. Yes, even Spider-Man 3.
- Who do you call when the fire station is burning down?
- Twilight for Barry Bonds.
This article appears in Sep 26 – Oct 2, 2007.
