Wow! How did I miss this today? It’s February 8th!! Today’s the tenth anniversary of Disney’s California Adventure theme park!
Here’s the Orange County Register story on …

Interesting article about manufacturing in the USA in this week’s Sunday Boston Globe: “Made in the USA“.
Key quote:
Americans make more “stuff” than any other nation on earth, and by a …

I’m going to punish you with some funky transit. It’s from a few months ago, but I just saw it now. It’s called “tubular rail”. Check out: …

Not to be too much Apple, but apparently one of their execs made a little mistake this week.
He (or she) brought a prototype iPad 2 … to a room full …

This is fascinating – 2% of all web browsing in the world is done on iPhones or iPads!
Check out: “Apple’s iOS Breaks 2% of All Browsing on The Web, Over …

Watching Al Jazeera English’s live streaming coverage of the riots in Egypt, I find myself waiting for the iconic image. You know, the one that’ll be on the cover …

Fascinating article in the New York Times about the large number of multiracial college students these days: “Black? White? Asian? More Young Americans Choose All of the Above“.
Did you know …

Not much more to this story than the title: “Tiger Woods’ Dubai golf course development officially halted“.

I’m kind of surprised it took them this long …

If this is real this is awesome!
Check out: “Black Widow attempted New Year Moscow attack but blew herself up by mistake“.
Security sources believe a spam message from her mobile …

Liz in the news! Check out today’s Portland Press Herald article about her not job fair but “networking night”: “Immigrants network at international job fair“.

Wow.
Today’s the 25th anniversary of STS-51-L, the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

ALERT!
ALERT!

The US Department of Homeland Security is changing the “Homeland Security Advisory System” a/k/a the Terror Alert: “Homeland Security to replace color-coded terror alerts“.
The system, as it was established in …

One of my favorite things about Disney is the attraction posters from the theme parks.
With California Adventure getting a new design and new facelift, they’ve made new posters:

Check out: “New …

Not that it’s set in stone, by any means, but Apple was just granted patent for a new glove system, as reported by Apple patent watchdog patentlyapple: “Apple Wins Patent …

I just read a blog post about the possibility of selling naming rights to infrastructure that was cute enough, but then they made a good jab at the KFC Yum! …

Wow, so I don’t feel like going to Taco Bell any time soon.

Have you seen the new lawsuit that contends their “beef” is actually “taco meat filling” and …

I opened up my Central Maine Power bill last night (and yes, the bill is higher with these new smart meters) and found an ugly new logo inside.

Not that the …

Remember The World islands in Dubai? We actually talked about them three years ago today (see The World).

Well, according to reports from Friday, it’s sinking: “Luxury Dubai development sinking.”
Of …

Maine’s Tea Partier-in-Chief, Paul LePage, has been in the news quite a bit lately; most recently he told off the NAACP the week before Martin Luther King Jr Day, calling …