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Posted on 03 June 2009
Every glass in Paris shattered this afternoon. Shopkeepers tried to piece together why the windows to their stores lay in a billion pieces on the Champs Ellysees. The massive traffic jams from blown out tires brought the entire city to a halt. Packed emergency rooms treated injuries ranging from cuts on hands to removing shards of glass from eyes of those Parisians who wore eye glasses. Every light bulb exploded…and The City of Lights went dark.
It took a few hours of painstaking detective work, but scientists got a lucky break when Maria Sharapova demanded medical attention for her strained vocal chords…and it was only a matter of time before this modern day biblical plague was traced to The Women’s Tennis Semi-Final at Roland Garros.
Enough already. Something needs to be done. The piercing shrieks, in addition to causing tinnitus en masse, are turning the women’s game into a joke.
Does Maria Sharapova put more effort into a shot than Rafael Nadal? [For that matter, does her forehand cause her more pain than the systematic implementation of nailing one’s toes to a hardwood floor?]
There is simply no reason for the auditory assault; and Sharapova is hardly the only culprit. The Williams sisters, Ivanovic, and Portuguese teen phenom, Michelle Larcher de Brito all give Ella Fitzgerald a run for her money.
If the screams are involuntary as many claim, then the Women’s Tennis Tour should change its name to the Women’s Tourette’s Tour. Please excuse the following redundancy, but...the demonstrative divas are as shrill as a bad horror flick. Continue Reading...
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Posted on 02 June 2009
Plummeting home prices.
Skyrocketing unemployment.
On average, then, the U.S. economy on solid ground.
That is, if you subscribe to the notion that, on average, a
human has one breast and one testicle.
The fact that home prices are still falling, while unemployment claims are still rising is an equation that will yield one result...and it is in no way "average". Get ready for a new wave of foreclosures. And don't think Obama's anti-foreclosure plan is going to do anything to stop it.
The fact that home prices are still falling, while unemployment claims are still rising is an equation that will yield one result...and it is in no way "average". Get ready for a new wave of foreclosures. And don't think Obama's anti-foreclosure plan is going to do anything to stop it.
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We all know Google Music is coming , it’s just a question of when – and what it’ll look like, of course. According to Reuters , Google hopes to launch the service as early as December 2010. [...more]
YCombinator -funded Cloudant , a database platform built around Apache’s open source CouchDB framework, officially launches after three years of hard work. Cloud-based like Cloudera and Amazon Web Services and part of the NoSQL movement, Cloudant scales your database on the CloudDB framework but also provides hosting, administrative tools, analytics and support so “You don’t have to think a lot up front about what your database is going to look like.” Going up against Goliaths like Oracle, Cloudant focuses on scalability, flexibility, and high availability [...more]
A/B testing, which entails running multiple versions of a site at once and tracking which one performs best with users, is a key part of launching a new version of any website. Visual Website Optimizer , which I’ll just call VWO from here on out, helps users manage this often complex process. [...more]
This evening Twitter CEO Evan Williams put up an interesting post about Twitter mobile usage. By just about every measurable metric, it seems to be skyrocketing. [...more]
