As if being Mr. T wasn't funny enough...

Be nice to yo Moms FOOL!

] "We sprung it on the engineers one day," he said,
] recalling their surprise at how small it was at the time.
] "There were only eight guys in the room. Cooper said
] 'Anybody who doesn't believe this can be done, leave the
] room.'"
]
] No one did. But it was another 10 years and a total of
] $100 million in development costs before the phone was
] officially unveiled in 1983 %u2014 the delay resulting
] mostly from the need to build towers and infrastructure

another great example of how 'innovation' doesn't come quick or easy. Now, the US market for cell communiatons produces over $73B in revenue each year and is growing nearly 20% per year still.

First cell phone was a true 'brick'

] Inefficiencies in the medical industry, along with
] advances in chip manufacturing and design, will likely
] provide chipmakers with one of their big opportunities
] for growth, Barrett said recently in a brief interview.

Gee Craig, glad you woke up.

Health care's the ticket, Craig Barrett says

] Federal regulators say the specialists engaged in two
] illegal trading schemes: using knowledge of a trade to
] deal in front of it, and "interpositioning," which occurs
] when a specialist intervenes in a trade rather than
] matching buy and sell orders.
]
] The 15 specialists indicted, all but two of whom have
] left their firms, were members of the New York Stock
] Exchange's five major specialist trading companies. They
] are accused of making illegal trading profits from
] interpositioning of $13.4 million and costing investors
] more than $19 million from trading for their firms'
] accounts ahead of customers.

This is how the little guy always gets screwed.

15 Specialists From Big Board Are Indicted

] If you've ever longed for a way to monitor your dog's
] social life, map out its buddy network and sense who its
] true friends really are, you might have been waiting for
] SNIF.

This sounds like it was born simply because someone thought of the term "petworking". Well dammit, I'm gonna trademark the term "pee-mail"!!!

Collar Cultivates Canine Cliques

] The Princeton, NJ chapter of the ACM (Association for
] Computing Machinery) is celebrating 50 years of the RCA
] Synthesizer on Thursday, April 14.

Jack Danger wants you to know this.

RCA Synthesizer: 50 Years Later

] The film starred adult actress Summer Nyte, 31, of
] Sevierville, Tenn. Her husband, truck driver David Moore,
] 42, helped produce the project and said they chose to
] shoot the film locally because ''Nashville is a nice
] city.''

] The movie, which also featured adult-film actor Ron
] Jeremy, involved men ages 21-62 engaging in sex with
] Nyte. Nyte was the only person paid for taking part,
] Moore said.

One look at Summer and it's unclear why she was the only one that got paid.

Metro says it can't prosecute creators of pornographic movie

] Moving from vertical processes to a horizontal business
] structure sounds like a great idea. There's just one
] problem: who's going to make sure everything works
] together?

Who's in Charge of the Architecture?

] We're creating a history of video games, not just with
] input from experts (we'll use some of course) but
] primarily using a lot of real players' experiences with
] the role of video games in their lives.

] So what did you play? What games stand out in your memories? Did
] you play in groups, or by yourself, did this change over time, or
] from game to game? What skills do you think you learned from each
] game? Has a videogame ever helped you in "real life"?

Share you insight

Share your Gaming History

] Motorists on southbound I-75 this morning were greeted
] with a freeway construction message board proclaiming
] "speed limit 100 mph go go go."

heh heh. Given the way most Michiganders drive though, they probably had to slow down to comply.

MDOT pulls plug on fake speed zone sign