Thursday, July 12, 2007

Transformers Cartoon Spoof takes on Michael Bay

The Transformers are upset with Michael Bay and his portrayal of them in his movie. Latest episode of Supernews, a cartoon on Current TV.

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Why Business Schools Will Be Obsolete in 15 Years

A well-written essay about one of America's most popular undergraduate programs, and why it's doomed. FTA: "they never tell us that for the most part we’ll just move, play with, analyze, and talk about wealth, rather than *create* it. That’s for the engineers, the guys who they anachronistically think will work for us in fifteen years..."

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5 Top Factors That Affect Employee Productivity

A list of 5 factors that affect employee productivity. They're blaming your boss! Employees suffer lower productivity from a bad boss, among other things like a lack of proper technology.

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Executive Pay Practices Under Scrutiny

The Senate Finance Committee will turn its attention on Sept. 6 to a little-known provision in the U.S. tax code that critics say has been widely exploited by public companies eager to take tax deductions on their top executives' sometimes lavish compensation.

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Sunday, July 8, 2007

Bill Ford out as Ford CEO

"Bill Ford is stepping down as chief executive at Ford Motor Co. and the troubled automaker said Tuesday he will be replaced by Alan Mulally, a top executive from the airplane maker Boeing Co."

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Subprime mortgage problems may spread to Alt-A loans

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Problems in the subprime mortgage business may be spreading to other parts of the home loan market.

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New Virgin America airline goes viral video to make its case

Virgin America is trying to become the nation's newest low cost air carrier (complete with touch screen displays, vod, satellite tv, broadband Internet and then some), but has been denied by the Department of Transportation. Virgin makes their case in the video seen in this story and asks for the publics help in lobbying support.

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Porn on Forbes - Forbes on Porn

Major companies are increasingly accepting porn as an advertising medium. Corporate taboos are vanishing gradually.With 25% of daily online search centered over erotica, this seem like a normal move. But i still dint know even a single person, who would comfortable watch/share/recommend porn stuff in a family atmosphere.

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Resume Tips

Susan Ireland, author of 'The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Perfect Resume' and 'Ready-Made Resumes Software', offers advice on creating the perfect resume, and how to market yourself into that next great job. Among her tips: Make your resume more about your future than your past.

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Tattle On Tax Cheats, Get Big Bucks

Know someone who is cheating on their taxes? Under a IRS program enacted in December, you could fink on them and receive a sizable reward.

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Home Depot Scamming People with Fake Reviews?

Blogger notices some awfully fishy comments while shopping on Home Depot's website. Surely Home Depot wouldn't post fake reviews to drum up sales would they?

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What every entrepreneur needs to know about trademark

Blogger Seth Godin riffs on generic brands, on Google and yes, on whether Digg is a good trademark or not.

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Google To Offer Real-Time Quotes for Free!

Today, the NYSE has moved the issue a great step forward with a proposal to the SEC which if approved, would allow you to see real-time, last-sale prices across all Google properties including Google Finance, Personalized Google, Mobile, and of course, Google.com.

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How To Make Your Own Laundry Detergent

I’ve been experimenting with making lots of cleaning supplies at home, but this one is by far the craziest - and the most successful. Basically, I made a giant bucket of slime that works incredibly well as laundry detergent at a cost of about three cents a load. For comparison’s sake, a jumbo container of Tide at Amazon.com costs $28.99 for 96 load

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Trabian is releasing their Credit Union CMS as Open Source!

Trabian (the people behind OSCU) just announced that they are releasing their Credit Union focused Content Management System (CMS) as Open Source.This is extraordinary news, and represents the first major step toward an open source Credit Union technology platform.

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Manning & the Colts beat the Bears 29-17 in Super Bowl XLI

Manning finally pulls off the big one throwing for nearly 250 yards with one TD and an Interception. While Rex Grossman struggled all night passing for 1 TDs and 2 interceptions.

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Seahawks 21, Cowboys 20

All Tony Romo had to do was put the ball down and let Martin Gramatica make a short kick. He couldn't do it - and the Seattle Seahawks are still alive in the NFL playoffs.

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Superbowl doesn't allow 55" TV viewing for a party!

NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said the league has a longstanding policy against “mass out-of-home viewings” of the Super Bowl, even if they don’t charge admission. Hosts of parties can use only one TV that is no bigger than 55 inches, according to a league attorney.

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Chargers Head Coach Schottenheimer Fired

Despite an early exit from the playoffs, the Chargers announced in January that Marty Schottenheimer would return as coach. That's not the case anymore. ESPN's Chris Mortensen reported on Monday that the team had fired the coach.

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Colts Win 38-34: Incredible Comeback!

Title says it all- Great Game!

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Free Live Stat Tracking for Yahoo Fantasy Football

Statfink is a Fantasy Football(American) statistics tracker and live scorer. Lots of people are looking for something like this, but not many know about this. It automatically grabs all your league's team data for your Yahoo fantasy football leagues and calculates your entire league's scores, live as the games happen.

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Rasheed Wallace flings half-court 3 to force OT, Pistons win

Rasheed Wallace forced overtime with a 60-foot buzzer beater.

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Watch NCAA March Madness Basketball Online.. FREE!

NCAA March Madness on Demand allows you to watch LIVE game broadcasts of CBS Sports television coverage of the NCAA Championship on your computer for FREE! I highly recommend signing up for a VIP pass or you'll have to wait in very long lineups; and VIP passes are limited.

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FREE NCAA Alerts

Free NCAA tournament alerts on your cell phone.

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The Most Shocking Ending in Sports History....

No. This is not from a movie. Yes. This really happened.

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Major League Baseball to Randomly Drug-test Off-field Employees Too

Baseball fans worried that the woman who swipes their credit card at the box office might be juicing can rest easy. It's not clear why secretaries and equipment managers have to be drug-free for Major League Baseball to operate as a safe and successful business, but the policy appears to be a defensive legal maneuver.

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Bonds to Sign with Giants $16Mil 1-Year

Apparently prepared to leave the Bay Area, free agent Barry Bonds has instead agreed in principle to stay with the San Franciso Giants, MLB.com reported Thursday night.

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Former Negro Leaguer Buck O'Neil dies

Buck O'Neil, baseball's charismatic Negro Leagues ambassador who barnstormed with Satchel Paige and inexplicably fell one vote shy of the Hall of Fame, died Friday night. He was 94.

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Cubs Sold after '07 Season

Tribune Co. said Monday it plans to sell the Chicago Cubs at the end of the 2007 baseball season, putting one of its most valuable assets on the block as it simultaneously announced that real estate magnate Sam Zell was acquiring the media conglomerate.

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Watch any baseball season standings horserace style

It is an online application that allows you to view any Major League Baseball season, split by league or division (even wild card races), as an animated, date-by-date race between the various teams you choose.The data goes back to 1901, and includes every game of every season up through yesterday (9/4/2006). Kinda cool.

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Russia wins 2014 Olympics bid

Vladimir Putin pulled off for Russia what Tony Blair did for Britain in the latest Olympic vote.Backed by the Russian president's personal lobbying, charisma and government support, the Black Sea resort of Sochi was elected Wednesday as the host city of the 2014 Winter Games.

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