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You’ve got to be a pretty big nerd to shell out 10G for a computer that, honestly,..didn’t do that much.  $10,000 in 1982 would have gotten you a night with Leslie Easterbrook from Police Academy,..maybe even a full weekend!  It’s for that reason, it was mainly used by NASA and the military special forces; who [...]

Peter Merholz is a founding partner, board member, and president of Adaptive Path; a user experience consultancy company.
The original term was of course ‘weblog’, which was coined by the famous anti-semite, Jon Barger, in 1997.  The term weblog was lightheartedly split in two on Peter’s own blog PeterMe.com, into the two words ‘We Blog’ in April/May 1999. [...]

Girl,..That’s just straight up filth right there!

In fact, her name is simply Joanne Rowling. So why is there a ‘K’ thrown in to the mix? Well there’s nothing magical about I’m afraid. Her marketing team decided that boys, who represent the majority of her target audience, would be less likely to buy literature by a female author so they [...]

The beautiful town of Bethel, Maine is place where, apparently, the “common is uncommon”.  Where Brooks Bros. sells pliers and wrenches, Victoria’s Secret is a chocolate raspberry desert and where Timberland Outlet is an exit for logging trucks.  It’s also a place where they just love building whack-off great snowmen!
Built in 1998 and finished in 1999, this [...]

Is it just me Watson, or am I gurning my face off?

In the abysmally named district of Ticrapo the young girl was originally taken to hospital by her parent fearing that she was suffering from an enormous abdominal tumour.   Her physician, Dr. Gerardo Lozada, took her to a hospital in Lima where it was determined, by X-Ray, that she was in fact seven months pregnant.  Lina [...]