Mass High Tech Business News:
One of the poster children for the Internet boom of the mid-1990s, Lycos Inc. today was sold for $36 million. In 2001, the Waltham-based search engine and web tools company merged with Spanish telecom company Telefonica for $5.4 billion.
As we like to say around here, “Tina, what’s the ROI calculation on that?”
Daryl Lang:
Look at the photos. This neighborhood is not hallowed. The people who live and work here are not obsessed with 9/11. The blocks around Ground Zero are like every other hard-working neighborhood in New York, where Muslims are just another thread of the city fabric. At this point the only argument against this project is fear, specifically fear of Muslims, and that’s a bigoted, cowardly and completely indefensible position.
It’s telling that the outrage about this project is coming almost entirely from outside New York.
A would-be saboteur arrested today at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland made the bizarre claim that he was from the future. Eloi Cole, a strangely dressed young man, said that he had travelled back in time to prevent the LHC from destroying the world.
And here’s the best part:
Police said Mr Cole, who was wearing a bow tie and rather too much tweed for his age, would not reveal his country of origin.
The 2010 Ungenius Baseball Roadtrip was another doozy. Last year, I caught a phenomenal pitchers duel between Tim Lincecum and rookie Vin Mazzaro that was over in an astounding 2 hours, 2 minutes, and before that a sloppy Wrigley Field slugfest that ended in an 11-9 Reds win.
My last Astros game was back in 2007, and the recent rebuilding in Houston leaves a club that’s completely unrecognizable. In fact, as near as I can tell, only three players who appeared in uniform for the Astros in 2007 were on the roster saturday: Carlos Lee, Hunter Pence, and Humberto Quintero. At the same time, the post-firesale Astros are intimately familiar to me, as I’ve been a long time season ticket holder for the AAA Round Rock Express. To be fair, Saturday’s starter Bud Norris never impressed me at Round Rock. To be even fairer, looking at his seasonal stats, I’m guessing I just never managed to catch a good outing because he really shut down the PCL (a hitter’s league) in 2009.
He really delivered Saturday, though. After a rough first inning, giving up a leadoff triple and a 2-run homer, he regained his composure and shut the Pirates down like a grizzled veteran and posted an astounding 14Ks.
This was arguably the coolest toy on the market when I was seven. A kid across the street had one, and by the transitive property, that made him the coolest kid on the planet.
David A. Goldstein, president of researcher Channel Marketing, quoted in 2001 about Apple Retail:
I give them two years before theyre turning out the lights on a very painful and expensive mistake.
Nick Patrick:
What’s surprising, though, is that those accents were much closer to today’s American accents than to today’s British accents. While both have changed over time, it’s actually British accents that have changed much more drastically since then.
Texas Tribune reports:
Riddle warns of an elaborate terrorist plot to have foreign mothers give birth to babies in the United States, who will then be trained to destroy America once they come of age.
In corporate recruiting, you can pick two of the following: easy, cheap, fast. Recruiting through anchor-babying would be picking none.
David Waldstein:
Unable to find a flight, Igarashi and Phillips took a cab to New York, a three-and-a-half-hour drive with a $300 fare, including tolls and tip. The driver had never been to New York, but Phillips knew the way.
Never mind the fare. I hope they gave him box seats to the game; Johan Santana threw a gem last night.
The AP reports:
They were among 100 people who gathered outside a downtown hotel Wednesday, trying to deliver petitions to commissioner Bud Selig to move the 2011 All-Star game out of Arizona because of that state’s new law cracking down on illegal immigrants.
This could get interesting.
