Pigeons: "The technology behind Google's great results."
Why do we call today Good Friday and not "Sad Friday"? Does anyone have a better answer?
'Greetings from Nevada' postage stamp coming Thursday: "The Nevada stamp depicts a horseback rider, sagebrush and the famed Welcome to Las Vegas'' sign. Postal officials said the images on each of the 34-cent stamps combine flora and fauna with local points of interest into collages celebrating the character of each state." Too bad the price of stamps is rising. I doubt many of these stamps will actually be mailed.
The Space Elevator Comes Closer to Reality: "Make way for the ultimate high-rise project: the space elevator. Long viewed as science fiction "imagineering", researchers are gathering momentum in their pursuit to propel this uplifting concept into actuality."
What Business Would You Start? "(Inc.com) put that question to some of the brightest minds in the business world and asked them to let us in on the thinking behind their choices. They talked to people with a wealth of hands-on experience -- CEOs and company founders whom they consider 'masters of business.'"
Dust Storm Approaching West Coast: "An Asian dust storm is about to arrive on the West Coast of the United States. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported Wednesday that the storm blasted out of Asia on March 22 and is now approaching California. The agency said the dust was thick when it passed over Korea and Japan but is expected to have thinned out considerably by the time it makes a U.S. landfall."
Where It's Easier to Buy a Home: "But one of the biggest differences between red (liberal) and blue (conservative) America may have less to do with cultural attitudes and more to do with family budgets. Buying a house is a lot easier in "red America," for reasons that reflect politics as much as economics."
Today on Talk of the Nation: "Do you have fantasies of escaping to a tropical island, basking in the sun, and never answering a phone or checking your email again. . .Or, maybe you want to live in a cabin somewhere in the mountains where you can chop wood and ponder the larger meaning of life. . .Well, you're not alone. Escapism and anonymity."
A clueless author who doesn't know a weblog from a list of machine-culled links said: "Search technology darling Google, Inc. has jumped on the weblogging bandwagon, rolling out a new feature with third-party links to the day's top news stories. The Mountain View, Calif.-based Google, which already posts links to news stories when returning search results, is beta testing a Google News Search, offering links from news organizations around the world to the day's headlines. Google officials could not be reached Wednesday morning to discuss the business end of Weblogging move, which points readers to news stories in five categories: world, U.S, business, entertainment, technology and sports." Google wasn't available to comment on the "business end of Weblogging," because they're NOT weblogging. The author even inserted the word "weblog" into a quote from the Google: "As we continue to improve our (Weblog) service, we'll be adding more news sources and updating our index of stories more frequently," the company said."