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“It is a dark time for the rebellion. Although the dual-core barrier has been destroyed, competitive forces have driven our rebel platform from its PowerPC niche and brought enormous pressure to bear across the entire product range.

Evading the dreaded specter of hardware stagnation, a group of engineers led by Steve Jobs endeavors to established a new platform based on the alien world of Intel CPUs. Your humble servant, obsessed with finding out what Apple is up to, has dispatched dozens of probes into the far reaches of the Apple community.”

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“Milton Friedman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist known for his free-market views, proposed 50 years ago that to improve schools, parents could be given vouchers — tickets they could spend to shop for a better education for their kids. He theorized that the resulting competition among schools would spark improvements in the system. Free-market advocates loved the idea. Teachers’ unions hated it, arguing that it could drain resources from some public schools and direct resources to religious institutions.”

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“Yeow, read this one only after the kid’s gone to sleep. It’s a knee-slapping, cringe-inducing Winnie The Pooh, as reimagined by a South African columnist named Tom Eaton. Let me put it this way: Rabbit’s side effects from the live animal testing and his crystal meth addiction are not the worst fates to befall Christopher Robin’s little friends”

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“n an unexpected retail coup (or potential disaster), 62-inch-tall arcade cabinets featuring Midway games like Joust, Rampage, Defender, and Rootbeer Tapper will be available for under $500 at Target stores nationwide by November of this year.”

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“Simply strap the collar around your beloved’s neck, and as long as the built-in receiver can pull in both GPS and GSM signals, you can call the collar from anywhere in the world and get texted back with its exact location (or view a map on a smartphone).”

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“now Canon jumps on the fuel cell bandwagon with these hydrogen fuel-cell-powered digital cameras.”

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“We had looked at a lot of different cases on the market. Most of them will probably do a fine job of protecting the iPod, but none was des