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$100B time-waster

‘If time be of all things the most precious,” Benjamin Franklin said, “wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.” But he had never heard of a status update. Facebook is the world’s foremost purveyor of information you shouldn’t care about. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is to uselessness what...

The Virtues of Having Strange People Close By

? Let?s clarify: smart strange people, and only if you?re interested in new ideas and innovation.?? But, who isn?t these days? It?s new ideas that are changing the world, and the people behind them are, more often than not, a bit strange. That?s an advantage, but only if they are strange together, rather than strange ...

Hype Man Henry Blodget Is At It Again, Profiling Mark Zuckerberg in New York Magazine

This week’s cover story for New York magazine is a rather defensive profile of Mark “ Watch Out My IPO Pop ” Zuckerberg that seems designed to convince readers that Zuck having 57 percent of Facebook voting shares is a great idea. The piece is penned by none other than dotcom champion and Business Insider CEO Henry Blodget. In honor of Mr. Blodget’s reappearance in the mag, we considered opting ...

Bus driver in good condition after pileup

AMHERST TOWNSHIP — The Highway Patrol is still trying to figure out what exactly happened during a multiple vehicle pileup that killed one and critically injured another on the Ohio Turnpike Friday night.

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera at the Bowes Museum

An odd couple take over the former home of another odd couple. No wonder Frida Kahlo's winking. The Guardian Northerner 's arts ace Alan Sykes explains Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera made a pretty odd couple – Rivera the much older, much travelled, much married friend of Modigliani and Picasso, Kahlo the Hungarian-Jewish-Spanish-Mexican surrealist painter from the Casa Azul . The Bowes Museum 's ...