I found a recent article at MSN to be a fascinating read. Is it possible that our friends and neighbors in Europe really see capitalism so differently. Sitting in Silicon Valley among venture capitalists and entrepreneurs this is hard to believe. Europe could use more people like Ehssan Dariani. The 26-year-old entrepreneur runs a hot ...

Isn’t the internet a wonderful place? You can find all sorts of resources online. Recently I came across two very different articles. The first was titled How to Do Nothing at Work, and Get Away With It while the second was 18 Ways to Stay Focused at Work. So which one will you read?

Dvorak’s blog reported this story. The humor practically writes itself. You know that the place of life is getting fast when people skip having kids and go straight to having grand kids. A Japanese woman in her 50s gave birth to a child she had carried for her daughter, who was unable to conceive as ...

Solomon may be dead but that does not mean that there are not still wise people in the world as this story from CNN Money shows: Faced with the inability of two bickering attorneys to resolve even the most innocuous scheduling questions without his intervention, a Florida federal judge yesterday ordered the two to meet ...

I think this is one of those stories that illustrates that the reason that people don’t become brain surgeons is not simply the high cost of medical school: While traveling through JFK airport, Arabic blogger Raed was told he must change his t-shirt. Raed asked “Isn’t this my constitutional right to wear it?” with which ...

One interesting podcast about technology and society is O’Reily’s Distributing the Future. “Distributing the Future” is O’Reilly Media’s weekly podcast featuring the technology and the people behind what you use now and what you’ll use next. This half hour program includes interviews and commentary on science, technology, related social issues, and just plain fun. One ...

Be careful what you wish for:A 21-year-old man was trapped in a tank of chocolate for about two hours early Friday, police said.Capt. Randy Berner said the worker said he got into the tank at the Debelis Corp. to unplug it and became trapped waist-deep in the chocolate. read more | digg story

You have to like the sense of determination:In a city still emerging from the floods of Hurricane Katrina, a ship has begun to rise from the ashes of the September 11 terrorist attacks. read more | digg story

There is a great financial analysis in this article about if it would be a good idea to bid on this auction: The eBay kid, Ron Steen, who just put himself up for auction for 2% of his future income. The minimum bid price is $100,000. Whether or not this is legal in the first ...

This is a great piece of news for English teacher’s everywhere: It could be the most costly piece of punctuation in Canada. A grammatical blunder may force Rogers Communications Inc. to pay an extra $2.13-million to use utility poles in the Maritimes after the placement of a comma in a contract permitted the deal’s cancellation. ...