UK housing: my future scenario, it will get better eventually « Peter J. Coo...

" As a property journalist of two decades standing – with some successful property calls under my belt – it therefore seems only fair to flesh out what was a very broad-brush prediction: namely that the selling prices of houses will fall by 60 per cent in this downturn...

Chomsky on World Ownership

"Chomsky on World Ownership Michael Shank | January 23, 2008 Editor: John Feffer Email this page to a friend Comment on this article Foreign Policy In Focus www.fpif.org Noam Chomsky is a noted linguist, author, and foreign policy expert. On January 15, Michael Shank...

WGA Strike: A Grammy Opportunity

In this LA Times piece, Todd Marten suggests that an ongoing WGA strike won't likely force the cancellation of the Grammys and may, in fact, have the positive net effect of giving "more airtime to musicians". More...

New Hardware for Vista SP1 (DirectX 10.1) - XP SP3 Too?

"Microsoft is currently in the final stages of cooking both Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3. In December 2007, the first public builds of Vista SP1 and XP SP3, namely the Release Candidates became available for download. In the second week in...

Fedora 8.0 review

This is an indepth review of a fascinating Linux distribution namely Fedora 8.0. The author concludes thus :If you are looking for a robust, secure and stable Linux distribution which stands out from rest of the brood in providing an innovative set of GUI tools for system and...

Fark to TM 'NSFW'...WTF?

Good luck, Fark. It's going to be pretty difficult to enforce authorized use of your proprietary webspeak, even if you're granted a trademark on an admittedly dubious "phrase". Might have to call in the Acronym...

Is Your Kid at Risk of Becoming a Problem Gambler?

"Many parents may not mind their kids playing poker, but even those moms and dads know that there are risks. The biggest of those, namely, is the risk of addiction. Ed Looney, executive director of the Council of Compulsive Gambling of New Jersey, says that as a rule of...

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