Mysterious disappearance of Google coder and sailor

As a sailor myself, the news of the weird disappearance of Jim Gray, a senior programmer at Google, is spooky. Today a very good article appeared on Wired, and documents the incredible effort that has gone into...

You know your dog's lazy when...

It won't even walk and you have to push it around in a stroller. Or maybe it's just the surrogate-kids thing. A Brooklyn paper (actually The Brooklyn Paper) reports on the newest trend in over-the-top pet care:...

Farms facing worker shortage for harvest (AP)

" BATESVILLE, Texas - J. Allen Carnes needed 200 workers for the onion harvest this year on 500 acres of South Texas fields. The onion business is big in the area, and with only two months to harvest, there's little room for delay. But Carnes ended up with less than 100...

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