Daily Archives: January 31, 2009

Inventing the Next Amazing Thing

Woody Norris, inventor and chairman of American Technology Corp., demonstrates one of his newest innovations that he calls HyperSonic Sound or HSS and talks about his untraditional approach to inventing and education. As he puts it: “Almost nothing has been … Continue reading

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Augmented Reality

A very nifty website from the “ecoimagination” folks at General Electric to promote their so-called Smart Grid initiatives.

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Cutting Through Rush’s Bull

Last night on CNN’s “No Bias, No Bull” program, Campbell Brown put Rush Limbaugh in her crosshairs over the comedian’s attack on business reporter Ali Velshi (who’s Canadian, btw) after he’d criticized parts of Limpballs’ recent Wall Street Journal article. … Continue reading

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Unambiguously Racist

It’s kind of pathetic when someone who evidently has no respect for free speech, who clearly doesn’t have the slightest understanding what the demonstration involved was about, and who apparently doesn’t seem to have any of the facts of the … Continue reading

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Uh-Oh…

In case (like me) you missed this report by Scott Pelley on 60 Minutes last month regarding the second wave of expected defaults on the way, it’s good to keep this in mind when considering some of the actions presently … Continue reading

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Trickle Up Economics

Is it possible that Jon Stewart is smarter than Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke? Earlier this week, on The Daily Show, Stewart suggested in an offhand way, that simply giving the $2 trillion dollars in “stimulus” money (or bail-out money… whatever), … Continue reading

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