Snip from a NYT article about Ramak Fazel, an Iranian-American artist whose art-quest to visit the capitols of every US state turned into a very different experience: His mission was to photograph each of the nation’s 50 state capitol buildings and dispatch a postcard from each city, using postage stamps from a childhood collection. More:…
Remember my predictions last year? Remember when I said this?: 6. eBay will have a major change in executive leadership. This feels overdue. Well, I was wrong, it didn’t happen in 2007. But, it is happening three weeks into 2008: TECHNOLOGY ALERT from The Wall Street Journal. More:
eBay CEO Meg Whitman plans to retire?I4U –21 minutes agoThe WSJ reports that Meg Whitman the CEO of eBay since 1998 plans to retire from top post at the online auction giant. The Journal reports that Ms. Whitman … More: continued here
A face that will tease you, and please you and perhaps unease you is coming to the post office next year, it’s those Bette Davis eyes. On the 100th anniversary of her birth the great actress will be honored on a commemorative stamp, the 14th in the Legends of Hollywood Series. More: continued here
The WSJ reports that Meg Whitman the CEO of eBay since 1998 plans to retire from top post at the online auction giant. The Journal reports that Ms. Whitman has apparentely already started to delegate more daily responsibilities to her lieutenants and … More: continued here
wikinerd writes “Following an online petition in November 2007 by members of an OS/2 online community to open-source OS/2, IBM answered by sending a letter via FedEx making it clear that OS/2 is going to remain closed-source, citing business, technical, and legal reasons. An earlier petition in 2005 that had attracted over 11,000 signatures met…
WorldChanging From Food Stamps to Farmers Markets: US Food Subsidies EvolveWorldChanging –1 hour agoIn the US, millions of citizens rely on direct government food subsidies in the form of food stamps or cash assistance. As of 2003, the last year for which … More: continued here
The last week saw a sense of order restored to the normally disorderly Big Ten Conference. More: continued here
Start Saving: Rare 1952 GM Futurliner Destined for eBay AuctionWinding Road Magazine, MI –5 hours agoBob Valdez is looking to sell his restored 1952 GM Futurliner on eBay in the coming weeks. The massive bus-like vehicle, measuring 12 feet tall, … More: continued here
The Ministry of Defence has admitted losing the details of 600,000 people after the theft of a laptop from a Royal Navy officer in Birmingham last week. More: continued here