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Support the boys at Reason

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:57:37 -0500

As noted yesterday, you generous, glorious sons and daughters of bitches came through like the troops on Normandy by letting us reach our goal of 500 new supporters long before our beg-a-thon's planned end this Friday.

Dolly Parton promotes the new Microsoft Webslices

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:00:48 -0500

Lessons from Demand Media

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:51:49 -0500

In our recent post about the top 50 web properties in the U.S.according to comScore, we noted that Demand Media is on the rise - moving from #36 to #24 in the past 12 months. Demand Media owns a number of successful sites, including ehow.com, Pluck and eNom (the second or third-largestdomain registrar in the world). The company also proclaims itself to be "the leader in social media solutions." Demand Media provides social media platforms to corporations and has a strong SEO business, creating niche website content tailored to search engines.

Chatrooms 1.0 - The Parlor

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:12:21 -0500

Copyright 2.0

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:10:56 -0500

Bernie Bilski and Rand Warsaw were just a couple of "math geeks for hire" from Pittsburgh when they applied for a patent in 1997.

Wow, the future looks magical

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:46:50 -0500

The U.S. smart grid: money for nothing?

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:05:07 -0500

Amid the government-funded rush to upgrade America’s aging electric system to a smart grid comes a strange confluence of press releases this week by the White House and the University of Illinois.

Michelle Khine finds her inspiration all around

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:56:21 -0500

In 2006, Michelle Khine arrived at the University of California 's brand-new Merced campus eager to establish her first lab. She was experimenting with tiny liquid-filled channels in hopes of devising chip-based diagnostic tests, a discipline called microfluidics. The trouble was, the specialized equipment that she previously used to make microfluidic chips cost more than $100,000--money that wasn't immediately available. "I'm a very impatient person," says Khine, now an assistant professor at the University of California, Irvine. "I wanted to figure out how I could set things up really quickly."

Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement: The Internet Chapter

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:03:27 -0500

The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama's administration refused to disclose due to "national security" concerns, has leaked. It's bad. It says:

Destination Imagination

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:10:06 -0500

Google Maps show an imaginary place near to where I live: a town with the ugly name of Argleton. This has been commented on elsewhere, with theories that they have simply got the name Aughton wrong (though Aughton appears as well), or that it is a deliberate mistake, designed to catch out unauthorised users of the maps, like a ‘trap street’ inserted in an A-Z map. However, Argleton does more than just sit there as a hidden feature: it shoves its way into people’s attention in many ways. Various software packages use Google’s geographical information, and Argleton seems to have primary claim on the surrounding postcodes – one can rent property there, or read inspection reports for its nurseries, at least according to the internet