HBO just released a decent mashup for the Sopranos. The idea is to let you track major events from the prior season (superimposed on a Google map), complete with video clips. The site is reasonably well done–except, inexplicably, it doesn’t support Firefox on the PC (on the Mac, Firefox, Safari and IE […]

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I wrote an earlier post on a provocative question from The Edge: what is your dangerous idea?
Readers’ comments were great, as usual. I wanted to highlight a few, in particular:

Terry Leach: “my most dangerous idea would be [that] science may be ‘running out of control’ and that man and computer will eventually merge. […]

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Each year, The Edge asks a collection of interesting people (Clay Shirky, Craig Venter, Ray Kurzweil, etc) a provocative question. Last year, the question was: “what do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?” (Think about that for a bit.) This year’s question:
What is your dangerous idea?
The history […]

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Tom Cruise (who made $75,000 for “Risky Business”), Cameron Diaz (who made $2 million for “There’s Something About Mary”), Tom Hanks (who made $70,000 for “Splash”), Jim Carrey (who made $350,000 for “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective”), Mike Myers (who got $1 million for “Wayne’s World”), and even Adam Sandler (who made $1.7 million for […]

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You may have heard it before, but this is a great blonde joke.
Actually, I’m posting the joke as an experiment. Confused? Check out the joke. I’ll post a follow up in a week or two with an explanation of my test and details of the results.

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