Colvin’s rant against government intervention

I’m beginning to tire of Geoff Colvin’s anti-government stance in his regular Value Driven column in FORTUNE magazine. In a recent piece (“Will the Motor City Shakeup Work?“, April 27), Colvin argued that General Motors‘ fate has less to do with the new CEO Fritz Henderson than with the restructuring model the US government is… Read More »

:CueCat reborn

If Eric Schmidt is serious about saving the newspaper industry, perhaps Google can come up with a :CueCat-like device (I even thought of a name for this: CURL) that can recognise URLs published in news articles and wirelessly direct a user’s computer to the relevant webpages without requiring the user to manually type out the… Read More »

Celebrities’ words of wisdom

Women might be able to fake orgasms, but men can fake entire relationships.~ Sharon Stone I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with “Guess” on it. I said, “Thyroid problem?”~ Arnold Schwarzenegger Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like… Read More »