Archive for November, 2011
Congressional ‘super Committee’ Fails to Reach Agreement on Budget Deficit Reduction
The 12-member bipartisan super committee tasked with coming up with $1.5 trillion in budget cuts by November 23 isn’t looking so super: According to CNN, the committee’s discussions on Sunday moved from where to trim to how to announce their failure to reach an agreement. The super committee is a hangover from the last time the [...]
Did You Get Vouched for on Connect.me?
Have you received a DM on Twitter or Facebook saying you were vouched for? It’s connect.me - a private beta plaform in a simple and socially-verified way to share your reputation and connect with respected people across the social web. Connect.me uses your social login from Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn and not an email address like most other social websites. [...]
Review: The Wedding Is Nice in “Twilight: Breaking Dawn” but Not Much Else
Release Date: November 18, 2011Rating: PG-13 (for disturbing images, violence, sexuality/partial nudity and some thematic elements)Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, ThrillerRun Time: 117 min.Director: Bill CondonActors: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Peter Facinelli, Ashley Greene, Kellan Lutz, Jackson Rathbone, Elizabeth Reaser, Nikki Reed, Billy Burke, Rami Malek, Maggie Grace, Mackenzie FoyLet’s just get this out [...]
We Must Start Fixing America Now
The United States has morphed from a manufacturing society to a service society, leading to the greatest number of unemployed/underemployed Americans since the Great Depression. With working Americans making less and less, the U.S. is running out of funding for its welfare programs. This is happening at a time when programs like health care and [...]
Samsung Becomes Number One Smartphone Vendor Worldwide
Samsung has turned out as the biggest smartphone seller in the world in the third quarter. Besides that the market share of Android devices has surpassed 50 percent for the first time. A market research conducted by Gartner reveals this report on Tuesday. The total smartphone sales worldwide reached 115 million units during the third quarter of 2011, which is 42 percent higher than the third quarter [...]
Qualcomm Brings Snapdragon GameCommand App To Facilitate Mobile Gaming
Qualcomm today announces the launch of its Snapdragon GameCommand app which has been created to enable finding and playing mobile games on devices with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors. Qualcomm is also increasing the number of games in its Snapdragon GamePack, which underscores games that will be running on its processors. The GameCommand app is intended to bring console-like games plus casual [...]
Pentagon Successfully Tests Hypersonic Flying Bomb
The Pentagon on Thursday held a successful test flight of a flying bomb that travels faster than the speed of sound and will give military planners the ability to strike targets anywhere in the world in less than a hour. Launched by rocket from Hawaii at 1130 GMT, the “Advanced Hypersonic Weapon,” or AHW, glided [...]
Belgian Developer Dumps Village Townhouse for Half Off
It’s not every day that a downtown property goes on the market for $28 million, even a 9,000-square-foot townhouse in the heart of the Villlage. Such was the case with the 28-foot-wide home at 47 West 9th Street. The property hit the market with the exorbitant price tag last February, but it has sold for almost [...]
The answer is always Ronald Reagan
While I still have my doubts that Herman Cain actually harassed any women 20 years ago, I have grave doubts now about his ability to be our president. The liberals that infest MMA have had their field day making fun of Herman Cain’s non reply to how he felt about President Obama’s handling of the [...]
Facebook Porn Spammers Identified
Facebook has identified the spammers responsible for the recent scandal of violent pornographic image posting on facebook. Facebook Inc. has commented that its legal team will ensure that righteous consequences follow”. Statements were made right after the reveal of objectionable porn materials, images containing intolerable violence, and unreal celebrity photos like young music icon Justin [...]
Incendies (Denis Villeneuve, 2011)
For a film that can be so smart, Incendies sure does suffer from some amateurish mistakes. A mystery concerning the unraveling of two twins’ lives in the wake of their mother’s death, Denis Villeneuve’s film splits its focus between past and present as we track the family tree from the Middle East to Québec. Fundamentally, however, this [...]
Wealth Gap Burdens the Entire Economy
The increasing gap between the middle class and the wealthy has garnered a great deal of attention over the last several years. Even before Occupy Wall Street’s rally against the 1 percent was a whisper in the wind, there were significant moral outcries against a growing inequality in income. But beyond the ethical implications, economists [...]
Finding Trusted Baby Gear Newton, Massachusetts
Raising a child may be the most exciting experience of your life, but may also easily be one of the most stressful, especially to a first time parent. Raising your baby is a 24-hour a day, 7-days a week job and it is extremely demanding. Make your life a little easier by having high quality [...]
Kingston Launches New HyperX Genesis Kits
Kingston, the independent world leader in memory products, today announced a range of HyperX Genesis memory in 8GB, 16GB and 32GB kits to support the new Intel Sandy Bridge-E X79 quad-channel processors and X79 Express-based motherboards. Kingston HyperX Genesis is the perfect solution for enthusiasts who require 4x raw performance increases afforded by quad channel over single channel solutions. For extreme users who require [...]
Need For Speed: The Run Races Onto Retail Shelves
The best-selling racing franchise of all time is back — and the stakes have never been higher. Get ready to race for your life in a heart-pounding cross-country race from the Golden Gate to the Empire State as Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS) today announced that Need for Speed™ The Run is now available at retail stores in India [...]
Opteron Chips From AMD Arrives After Long Wait
After a long delay and a year long chatter, AMD announced on Monday that its 16-core server chips known as ‘Opteron’ is going to be available soon. It is noticeable that Opteron packs largest number of x86 chips these days. The brand new Opteron 6200 chip, having codename ‘Interlagos’ are about 25 to 30 % faster than [...]
Finding the Right Home for You, Signs You Have Found It!
The first steps in finding the right home for you were about putting the place that feeds your soul into words and translating that into database criteria. This is critical for your searching. However, when you actually find the right house it’s a different story… because people search with their minds but buy with their [...]
The 2012 Presidential Debates vs. Reality
Another Presidential election will soon be upon us. As in the past, this election has more to do with showmanship than reality. When a pizza slogan captures the imaginations of American voters rather than serious issues like that of a ten-year long war without purpose or the migration of American Industry to foreign lands, one [...]
Clash of Titans: Facebook Vs Google+
Ever since Google has come out with the Google+ for commercial purposes on last Monday, the online tycoon has started to encounter heat for not providing enterprises with basic tools on the primary offering. Meanwhile, industry analysts ponder that Google+ might have found a profitable niche in the online social networking business among the enterprise users. There has been [...]
Adam Sandler Does Not Care What You Think
Jack and Jill, the latest Adam Sandler movie/laughter-devouring black hole, looks transcendentally bad. In it, Sandler does his best Norbit/Nutty Professor Eddie Murphy impression and plays both a brother and sister. (As with most Sandler or Murphy-helmed atrocities, Jack and Jill performed decently at the box office, grossing about $26 million in its first weekend.) Al Pacino is somehow in it, playing [...]
