Time Magazine published this piece on North Korea. “But any liberalization could lead to a loss of the absolute political control enjoyed by Kim. The dilemma is evident during a visit to the Kumsung Educational Institute. Boys recruited from around the country are learning English and computer skills beneath portraits […]

Random purely personal things that are on my mind. My feared liver numbers went from 67 to 43, and 24-17. That is all very good. Because of my strict two drink per week regimen, I’ve been able to significantly improve my liver function. So this is going to be around […]

Today’s Recorder newspaper included an AP story about how the thousands of college students who were uprooted by Katrina are faring in their new temporary colleges. “An estimated 75,000 college students were displaced from New Orleans by the storm. Many are still in the South, or at least at schools […]

Google’s already outsize ambitions appeared to balloon even bigger on Oct. 25 with the news that it’s apparently testing something called Google Base. The test site, spotted by sharp-eyed Web surfers in Europe, indicate that Google aims to solicit people to post all manner of content on its site. But […]

Magic Johnson dazzled the world when he wore Laker Purple, and took the team through four world championships in the 1980s. The star was in Springfield’s Alden Baptist Church yesterday, reported the Republican. “Today, Magic takes only two of the 26 pills routinely used to treat the HIV virus, and […]

If you had to choose, which of these Dubya originals would you say is your favorite?www.dubyaspeak.com polled their audience. I don’t think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees. 167 (19.2%) Part of the strategy is to call free nations together to form a coalition, to share information and to […]

Frank Rose wrote in Wired last week. “Consumers want an iPod phone that will play any song, anytime, anywhere. Just four little problems: the cell carriers, the record labels, the handset makers, and Apple itself. The inside story of why the ROKR went wrong.* (*And what it will take to […]

Tonight I joined many other members of Hidden-tech to learn about health insurance for small businesses in Massachusetts. There is a state program that will subsidize most of your employee’s monthly costs, it was presented by Simon Muil, a Brit who recalled his days using the single payer plan run […]