] Crowded House drummer Paul Hester was a world-class
] drummer known for his antics both on-stage and off and a
] prankster who struggled with bouts of depression.
]
]
] The Australian musician who also played for Split Enz
] held a special place in Kiwi pop music history.
]
]
] But Hester, the father of two girls, was found dead on
] Sunday at Elsternwick Park in Brighton, a suburb of
] Melbourne. He was last seen walking his two dogs on
] Saturday night.

Bummer. I guess the Aussies like to kill themselves for some reason. The real tragedy here is that he was widely known for being upbeat and happy.

Crowded House drummer dies

] Under the terms of the agreement, SunGard stockholders
] will receive $36 in cash for each share of SunGard common
] stock they hold. Some $500 million in bonds will remain
] outstanding. In a morning conference call with analysts,
] SunGard valued the total transaction at $11.3 billion,
] including common shares outstanding, stock options, debt
] and excluding cash on the balance sheet.

More proof that the market does not understand how to invest in technology infrastructure companies. The fact that they can go private, move quicker, not worry about quarterly earnings pressure, and actually MAKE MONEY is a big middle finger to Wall Street. I wonder what inFlow's strike price was set at?

Sungard goes private

A white male with a college diploma earns far more than any similarly educated man or woman - $66,000 a year. Among men with bachelor's degrees, Asians earned $52,000 a year, Hispanics $49,000 and blacks $45,000.

Are you keeping up?

Be sure to check out the detailed spreadsheets, too.

College Degree Nearly Doubles Annual Earnings

"For more than a century, the study of dinosaurs has been limited to fossilized bones. Now, researchers have recovered 70-million-year-old soft tissue, including what may be blood vessels and cells, from a Tyrannosaurus rex.

If scientists can isolate proteins from the material, they may be able to learn new details of how dinosaurs lived, said lead researcher Mary Higby Schweitzer of North Carolina State University."

NEATO!

Soft tissue found in T-rex fossil

] "Nowadays life is getting better, sweeter and sweeter,"
] she sings. "You can fulfill your dreams. The roads are
] getting wider and wider."

Sounds like a quote from the US circa 1949.

China's Next Cultural Revolution

] One day you look at your baby and realize that the
] intense passion you felt just the day before has been
] replaced by a numb, hollow feeling. Do you know this
] child? Do you care? You'll feel like bagging this whole
] dad thing and starting a new life somewhere else. Chances
] are the very next thing you'll feel is incredible guilt.
] After all, if you aren't head over heels in love with
] your child 100 percent of the time, you're not a good
] father, right? Wrong. Ambivalence is a normal part of
] being a dad, and you're going to have the same feeling
] dozens of times over the next 50 years. So get used to
] it.

um, yeah.

Raising Kids

] Aside from users of naked DSL services, an FCC decision
] would also affect "cord-cutters," a group of about 20
] million U.S. residents who don't have local phone lines
] and go solo instead with their cell phones. As a result
] of the possible FCC ruling, cord-cutters would have to
] buy a local phone line in order to get DSL.

FUCK THE FCC! This is a death blow to any CLEC or competitive DSL provider and is obviously pandering to the Bell Lobby.

Source: FCC to dress 'naked' DSL

] "John DeLorean was one of Detroit's larger-than-life
] figures who secured a noteworthy place in our industry's
] history," said Rick Wagoner, GM chairman and CEO.

I know that people will remember DeLorean for things that aren't too respectable, but he was one of the greats during the US automotive heydey and this is a good article about them.

Flashy carmaker DeLorean dies at 80

] Mr. Pierce is part of a quiet revolution in music-making:
] the move from professional studios to home recording.
] Making an album used to mean booking a fixed amount of
] very expensive time in a well-equipped but unfamiliar
] room; now, it can be a matter of rolling out of bed and
] pressing a button. Whether it's Mice Parade's indie-rock,
] Aesop Rock's underground hip-hop, the twilit ballads of
] Keren Ann, the mercurial California rock of the Eels or
] sweeping Top 40 contenders from Moby, more and more music
] is emerging not from acoustically perfect
] state-of-the-art studios, but from setups tucked into
] bedrooms and basements or simply programmed onto a
] laptop.

This dynamic also parlays into the vast overabundance of musical content available, and the relatively poor way in which the recording industry has leveraged it.

Home Sweet Studio

] The NHL had warned the NHLPA after canceling the season
] on Feb. 16 that future offers would be smaller because
] the business, itself, would very likely be smaller.
]
] The NHL delivered on that promise Thursday, by offering a
] hard cap of $37.5 million ($5 million less than
] previously offered), or, if the NHLPA would prefer, a
] fixed link between league revenues and player salaries at
] 54 percent of revenues (it was 55 percent previously).

The boat is just gonna keep sinking. The PA has GOT to get its head out of its ass.

Labor dispute far from over