Entries for February 18th, 2011

Borders Bankruptcy Hurts Others

Borders filing for bankruptcy protection is not new news, but I did not know that it will also hurt publishers as well.  According to the Daily Finance Penguin will lose 41.1 million dollars and Harper Collins will lose 25.8 million dollars.  I’m assuming this is money owed to the publishers from Borders.  The restructuring of [...]

Deceptive Google Search Optimization

The Spec.com, which was originally from the NYT but I do not have a link, has a good article about what happens when a company uses deceptive means to appear first in Google’s search results. PRETEND for a moment that you are Google’s search engine. Someone types the word “dresses” and hits enter. What will be the very first [...]

Cheese Spill

From the Daily Record: HOPE — A tractor-trailer carrying 44,000 pounds of Wisconsin cheese crashed in Hope on Interstate 80 late Wednesday night. Russell E. Kurtz, 60, of Narvon, Pa., was traveling east when he lost control of the truck, which went off the roadway to the left, struck the guard rail and overturned at [...]

The Sun

Excellent picture from the guardian. The image was taken from Nasa’s Solar Dynamics Observatory