Michael Arrington
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The search engine wars continue and now we have Blekko.com at the frontline. In a digital world dominated by Google users, Blekko.com may become a force to be reckoned with, namely with its unique “slashtags” feature which promises the most relevant of searches yet. For instance, if you type in global warming/liberal you will get a list of all the most relevant liberal sites which talk about global warming. As a blogger, I think this will help a lot in research, narrowing results, and eliminating all the spam sites that rank based only on keywords. But like other search engines before it, Blekko doesn’t aim to kill Google.
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They’re stronger, faster, transformier and less fall asleepier, making robots fierce competitors indeed. But humans are still pretty amazing creatures, with hearts and eyeballs the ability to build robots. Let’s put them in the ring together and see how they compare in the fields of medicine, music, sports, and…
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Vampires are everywhere. Not literally of course, but it seems that every other movie coming to theaters and every other television program features the pale nocturnal bloodsuckers in some form or another.  Truth be told, there have been books and movies and shows about vampires for decades now, but things have certainly kicked into high gear over the last few years.  There’s got to be more to it than just “vampires are dangerous and sexy.”  Perhaps it’s the idea of immortality that intrigues and allures fanatical audiences by the millions.  Perhaps deep in the human psyche, as the educated population’s overall belief in a heaven or life after death wavers, there is a glimmer of hope that these creatures really do exist, and that one bite could make you live forever.
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Even before Apple’s snarky “I’m a Mac” ad campaign, the one in which Macs are represented by a smart and youthful Justin Long and Windows PCs by an older, dopey John Hodgman, Microsoft has always had a rough time with its image. Even when they tried to maturely face the bully by embracing their geekiness and leaving Mac out of their “I’m a PC” ads, (both are PC’s but anyway) it still didn’t do the trick. Whatever way you look at it, Microsoft has had a lot of difficulty gaining control of its image.
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What’s in a name? People that are in the business of buying and selling domain names sure know. You can make a pretty penny with the right name, but you may be surprised to find out just how much and for what names.

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Have you ever gone to work one morning to find a stranger sitting at your desk? “This is Boris Hadijian, our new tech-master whiz. I had no choice but to give him your desk. The HR department moved your things over there… didn’t you get the memo?” I get this all the time. I always forget the memo.

Or have you ever entered your office at night to pick up some stuff and found a sympathetic old handyman taking down a wall to create more office space, very eager to introduce himself? “I’ve been working for your boss’s family for over twenty years now, they’re great people, and they pay well.” Lovely.

Or have you ever considered, as an intern, dropping school to stay with a company that’s growing so fast that you fear you might miss the opportunity of becoming a CEO at 25 like Bill Gates, Larry Ellison or the two guys from Google?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you get the idea of how the past nine months were for me since I’ve been working at SherWeb. In one word: awesome!
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Rick Cook (author of the Wizadry series) once said, “Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs, while the Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning.”

Programmers make the technologies we use possible, but often get little recognition for their major contributions outside the IT industry. A few months ago, one of our reader’s suggested we do a post on the creators of the most renowned programming languages. By creating this list, I hope to commemorate at least some of the many influential programmers of our time.
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Everyone with a pulse and an email account has been subject to at least a dozen or two email scams. Almost all of them can be grouped into just a handful of categories, however. One of the most common email scam themes is one in which some purportedly credible, wealthy person somehow needs the help of a complete stranger (i.e., the scam’s victim) in order to regain access to his funds. This person promises a portion of these gains to you if you only temporarily part with a small amount of money in order to gain access to his fortune.
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The field of biotechnology is constantly advancing. From finding ways to slow down the process of food spoilage, advancements in genetic engineering, to adapting organisms to clean up contaminated environments, new applications and biotechnological inventions are continuously being developed to help improve our world. Here are five breakthrough biotechnological innovations currently underway.
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