Syria Bloodshed: 'Why Isn't World Helping Us?'
A Syrian-British activist has pleaded for the UN and US to stop the bloodshed in Syria as people in his neighbourhood prepare to die.
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Cuba embargo turns 50: is this what JFK intended?
Ten presidents later, the US still prohibits nearly all trade and financial transactions with Cuba. But the embargo may work against our national interests, writes guest blogger Landau French.
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Lindsay & Ali Lohan Think Dina Looks Scary
According to Wunderkinds Lindsay and Ali Lohan, their mom Dina is need of a major makeover. In fact, those dazzling human specimens think their cougar-tastic mom looks "scary." Yes, you heard it here folks, OldFace Lohan and Cadaver Lohan think their mother is scary. Well if this isn’t the pot calling the kettle black/scary -- I do not know what is.
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This is what it’s like to race in the Rolex 24 at Daytona
Last week, we brought you the story of our own Geoffrey Miller's attempt to survive the Rolex 24 at Daytona as a fan . Today, we take you out of the grandstand and put you right into a car itself, as we watch from the point of view of GT driver Leh Keen, who ended up on the podium with the rest of his Brumos Porsche GT3 team. This is some great material here, starting with the plane, following ...
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The Empowered Employee is Coming; Is The World Ready?
Guest post written by??John Hagel, Suketu Gandhi and Giovanni Rodriguez John Hagel is co-chairman of the Deloitte Center for the Edge. Suketu Gandhi is a principal with Deloitte Consulting. Giovanni Rodriguez is a senior member of the Deloitte social-technology team, and a blogger for Forbes. In November 1993 - as the nation was just about ...
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Coming soon: Google-powered 'Terminator' glasses?
A tech blogger sparks a frenzy by reporting that Google may test a prototype of some cyborg-friendly futuristic shades as early as this spring
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What the Heck Is Groundhog Day? [VIDEO]
Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks.
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Your Humble Blogger is on NBC News Tonight and Democracy Now Tomorrow
When media rains, it pours. Had to turn down BBC and Cenk Uygur. Also did a recording with Harry Shearer which will run on Le Show probably this Sunday, but if not, next Sunday. NBC told me I needed to really dumb it down, and I thought what I said did sound sorta dumb, but at least they are allowing critical views to be expressed.
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Valimaki returns, ready to make a run
After missing all of 2011, Edmonton's Victor (The Matrix) Valimaki returns to the cage Saturday focused and ready to make a run.
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Yes, there is corruption in Selangor and elsewhere
Within two months, my friend informed me that the application was successful. What he told me later was something which was so ‘common and normal’ and which I was trying to avoid right from the beginning – bribery, corruption, palm-greasing. There was one occasion when he had to pass a substantial amount of money to one senior officer of a state corporation in the car park of the building. Paul ...
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