A 4.5% flat-rate income tax proposal under consideration by the Tennessee General Assembly would raise more money but wouldn't inoculate the state from economic ups and downs, economists say.

Flat-rate tax not immune to economy's fluctuations

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- The Transformers, a race of gigantic, shape-shifting robots, invaded planet Earth two decades ago, desperate to find life-giving fuel for their ailing civilization.

Now they're back, this time fueled by the nostalgia of Generation X.

Return of 'Transformers' the latest craze

He-he's b-back. Max Headroom, the original virtual character, is coming out of retirement. See the full series of this sci-fi classic beginning Friday, 5/3 at 6 p.m. Eastern only on TechTV.

'Max Headroom' Is Coming to TechTV

April 29 — In a test of post-Sept. 11 security procedures, undercover investigators bypassed safeguards at four federal buildings in Atlanta and easily could have carried weapons, biological agents and spying equipment with them, NBC News has learned.

Failed physical security in Atlanta's federal buildings

"Several wasp species can be found around the yard. Although wasps feed on insects such as house flies and garden pests, some can also be dangerous to people. Most wasps typically ignore people. For example, social insects that live in colonies will readily sting when they perceive their nest or territory is threatened while solitary insects only sting in self-defense when mishandled. "

If these damned things continue to reproduce at this rate we'll have to build bubble cities to escape them.

Yard Wasps

Time and again I have argued against facile comparisons of various non-business-world figures to CEOs. I’m getting nowhere. Just last weekend I saw a reference to George W. Bush as having the management style of “a big-picture CEO.” Why bother pointing out that some CEOs are big-picture types and others are micromanagers? Why bother noting that the same variation occurs among any set of leaders, from politicians to baseball managers? So I give up. I’m joining the pack. I’ve decided that it’s possible, after all, to consider any public figure through the lens of corporate leadership. Today, then, we will consider the management style of Ozzy Osbourne.

w1ld: humorious at best.

Ozzy Osbourne, CEO

A good read...enuff said.

Stephen Hawking on black holes, unified field theory, and Marilyn Monroe.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (Reuters) - Computer hackers may be the
scourge of the digital age, hunted down by police across borders, but in
Argentina they have found an unlikely ally -- the very justice system they
scorned.

Argentine Judge Rules in Favor of Computer Hackers

SHANGHAI, China (Reuters) -- Scientists
expect to publish next year the complete
sequence of the human genome, a
development that could revolutionize
medicine, the head of a leading genome
research organization has said.

"It will be completed in 2003," said Lap-Chee
Tsui, president of the Human Genome
Organization (HUGO), who was in Shanghai for
a four-day human genome conference.

Human genome map 'ready in 2003'

This guy has filed a $59 million dollar law suit under the RICO
statute (organized crime) that the US Govt (or as he says,
Federal Mafia) is illegally trying to take money from him.

New book about paying no income tax