Since 1989, the Rolling Stones have generated 1.5 billion dollars in gross revenue -- more than any other band or musical artist on the planet. This article in Fortune gives us a look inside Mick and Keith's money-making machine.
Google has launched a beta version of Google News. Google News groups search results by subject, allowing users to view coverage of a story by multiple sources. Users can sort by relevance or date.
Ever on the lookout for new ways to engage kids on their level, educators have come up with a new way to draw them in when it comes to after school study of math and language -- Sony Playstation!
What if a candidate
running for congress was supported by a groundswell
of support from Internet users, rather than
target=_new>corporations and special interest groups? Could this
represent a new
force in the political arena?
The new Euro has created a problem no one predicted. One and two Euro coins are allegedly causing allergic reactions. This article in Science News explores the credibility of these claims that new currency can be harmful to your health.
It's an ant; it dances.
Technosphere has created this exercise in artifical life. Users design a creature, name it, and release it into the wild. These creature's lives are then followed as they eat, hunt, are hunted, mate, and die. Due to a sadly predictable result of human psychology the environment is swimming with carnivores so please create a herbivore and reestablish the balance.
A good behind-the-scenes look at the pop phenomenon that is (was?) American Idol. This well written Salon article explores the disturbing details!
This Academy Award-winning short film by Pixar explains what the proverb, the birds of a feather flock together means.
This site, provided by UNESCO, provides up-to-date news on Europe's recent floods and their impact on its libraries and archives. News includes calls for aid from various groups as well descriptions of the techniques used to restore materials damaged in the floods.