Tag Archives: Sci/Tech

Two-thousand years ago grieving Egyptian parents put their young child to rest in the customary manner: they removed all of the youth’s organs except for the heart, packed the remains in salt to cure them, and wrapped them in linen coated with perfumed resin. They were certain that their careful …

If you read, or post, a great blog item about anything from Neanderthals to Boris Yeltsin, tell me about it ...

Wal-Mart employees have reportedly leaked the price for the new Xbox 360 due to come out November 4. Story here. Please remember that this may or may not be true since Microsoft has not yet officially announced the price for the Xbox 360. But if anyone else would know the …

Dear Prince, NPGMusicClub Ever since I was introduced to your music, I’ve been a keen fan of your work. It was back in the day when I worked at what used to be one of the great Independent record companies, Rough Trade. I was talking about music with one Bob …

There are countless peer directories that exist in order for people to meet new people and connect with their own friends. Friendster was the first real popular one. TheFaceBook supplanted it for a while as it publicized itself to the college crowd. Now MySpace has supplanted them all to create …

Where are all the female bloggers? Here, in my weekly top ten posts.

In the nearly four decades since Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, human space travel has gone nowhere.

A survey of more than 600 computer-savvy music fans by the British music research firm The Leading Question shows that those who regularly download or share copyrighted music without permission also spend an average of £5.52 a month on legal downloads, while those who don’t illegally fileshare spent just £1.27 …

The world has been full of talented people. There is talent in everyone, but the simple fact is that most people never realize their talents, and those talents go to waste. These are people who knew what their talents were, but for one reason or another, their talents were wasted …

Isn’t there enough pain...without us denying succour to those most in need?