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How Kerosene Lanterns Helped Bill Gates Save a DayLast week, Bill Gates was all set to leave India in his private jet from the Jodhpur Airport, when trouble struck. The Jodhpur airport was under repairs since mid-April and the authorities ordered that no flight could take off after 4 pm. While security officials knew that the light from Bill&rsq... |
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Book: 'Outliers: The Story of Success''Outliers,' which purports to explain the real reason some people -- such as Bill Gates and the Beatles -- are successful, is peppy, brightly written and provocative in a buzzy sort of way. ... |
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Psystar’s counterclaims against Apple to get thrown out of courtThe never ending saga of David vs Goliath just got a little tougher for the little guy. Unless Psystar strengthens its counterclaims against Apple, it will be thrown out of court. The counterclaim indicates that OS X is not reasonably interchangeable with other opera... |
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From the ScratchThe other day when I came across this quote “parents are the second teachers and teachers are the second parents” I was taken in for quite a surprise. We can hardly comprehend how true it is. In fact, it is this phase of life (for about 15 years) that our life transforms into... |
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Tron Guy Is a PC, Not a MacHey Bill Gates! Nice call! I like this ad a lot more than I liked the Seinfeld ones, and judging by the blog pickup, the Internet likes it better too. It's called self-referential humor, and it's the 21st century equivalent of that Volkswagen lemon ad that we all know about because of Mad Men. ... |
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15th Anniversary: A Look Back at How We Looked BackOh, 15th-anniversary page, how we'll miss you. For 12 issues, we've used this space for overtly self-referential sesquidecimalizing. As the year comes to an end, we thought we'd take a look back at the way we looked back. Herewith, our favorite items. 1 On the first anniversary page, we ... |
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