This is, in short, a nightmare scenario for long-time iPod fans: are we entering a world in which Apple controls and taxes literally every piece of the iPod purchase from headphones to chargers, jacking up their prices, forcing customers to re-purchase things they already own, while making only marginal improvements in their functionality? It’s a [...]
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Huntington Park won’t open for five weeks, but it’s almost a sellout — for sponsorships.
The ballpark’s board has nailed down $39.6 million in corporate money for naming rights and is negotiating deals worth an additional $9 million.
The new ballpark in the Arena District, to open April 18, had promised to raise $37 million from private [...]
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Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland says the state could restore passenger rail service with $250 million in federal stimulus money.
Strickland’s administration released the estimate Friday. Trains would run along existing freight tracks connecting Cincinnati, Dayton, Columbus and Cleveland, with the eventual goal of making the service high speed.
The governor also estimates it would cost $10 million [...]
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The Telegraph is one of the newspapers that I regularly read (although admittedly mostly for football stories) one of my favorite sections is called “Sign Language” and consists of funny signs from the UK and around the world…one such example below.
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I’ve been surprised (not really upset I might admit) that the television in England hasn’t jumped on all the gimicks of digital imaging and breaking down plays that the US has. Some of these efforts were complete jokes (the glow puck in hockey, thanks Fox) but others like the first and ten line worked and [...]
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Can’t say I am ever on the CollegeHumor.com website except when the occasional item gets a lot of diggs, this is one of those and this was pretty amazing in the amount of setup for this prank and how good it was (I guess its been an escalating prank war) anyway check it out at [...]
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In an interview with BBC Sport, Foster noted “We went into the shoot-out as well prepared as possible. We have had things to look at over the last couple of days and before the shoot-out, you can see me looking at an iPod with Eric Steele. It had actual video on it and showed where [...]
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Guess it should come as no surprise, papers were suffering before the downturn in the economy, but its still sad to see.
“The Dispatch is reducing the size of its newsroom, laying off 45 people effective on April 3, management of the newspaper announced today.”
via The Columbus Dispatch : ‘Dispatch’ announces 45 layoffs on editorial staff.
Made [...]
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If you’ve been fortunate enough to catch me getting into a rant recently on the subject you already know that I just finished The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan, a Berkley journalism prof and NY Times magazine contributor. The book, which I had been meaning to read for a long time, hit upon exactly a [...]
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