Key Client Wins and Online Community Growth Drive Expansion RALEIGH, NC (January 30, 2007) – rPath, provider of the first platform for creating and maintaining software appliances, today announced several milestones that highlight continued acceleration of software appliances as the most important emerging category for software application distribution and sales. […]
…and the times they are a changin: A Eurosceptic accepting the Euro
Major economic reforms have been taking place in Greece since the early 1990s and one of the strongest catalysts for these changes has been the Euro. In November 2001, the price of a return ticket from Pireaus to the island of Crete cost ten thousand drachmas. One year later, after the EU had officially converted […]
Vetoing Violent Video in EU
EU Banning Violent Video Games After watching the video game "Manhunt" EU politicians agreed: Games like this must be banned. Germany the current EU president initiated the debate after several recent violent attacks in Germany committed by youths who played video games. The first example was in April 2002 when former Erfurt school pupil […]
Sports, Destruction, and Community
The Saints didn’t make it to the SuperBowl again this year. New Orleanians are used to disappointment, and sadly, we’ve also gotten used to living among the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina and the flood. While we look forward to Mardi Gras, we can’t help but wonder if Chicago fans will again engage in riotous […]
Fighting Back In Argentina
Fighting Back in Argentina By Nick Stern La Plata, Argentina — The incident, like an open wound, still rubs raw on the memories of many Argentines. On the morning of September 28, 2004, a 15-year-old assailant, known only as “Junior”, unloaded the full magazine of his father’s 9mm pistol, killing three fellow students and wounding […]
Networked Nature at Foxy Production
At a bit before seven this evening I found myself standing beneath the pulsating lights and gently inflating and deflating tentacles of a mechanical septopod, while watching slime mold – in extravagant magentas and greens – creep across a television screen. A woman leisurely wandered past the mold toward the hydroponics to my left, and […]