The yearly migration of the famous, the rich, the powerful, the intellectual and the political to the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2009 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland is in full swing. The stated goals of the organization that hosts the Davos gathering is:
The World Economic Forum is an independent, international organization incorporated as [...]

Seasonal Patterns found for the following stocks:
Asset Acceptance Capital Corp (AACC) over the next 9 trading days. Look at the seasonal patterns for Asset Acceptance Capital Corp in context.
Columbia Bancorp (CBMD) over the next 9 trading days. Look at the seasonal patterns for Columbia Bancorp in context.
Dress Barn Inc (DBRN) over the next [...]

It was the early 1970′s, Nixon was president and I was in kindergarten. I don’t have a positive opinion on global warming, but most of my memories of going to school at that age are crisp autumn Virginia mornings. I also distinctly remember doing something that would makes me cringe at my uptight [...]

photo credit: neurolleroI just rediscovered a site I used to visit a lot – the WhyNot? Idea Exchange. People post ideas that they would like to see implemented and have feedback from others on how it can be done. For instance, Real Time Luggage Insurance or Recycled Shower H2O. This is [...]

Most people don’t think of Raleigh, North Carolina, as an ideal vacation destination. Most people, however, are misled. The truth is, Raleigh has quite a lot more to offer than you would ever think. From Southern charm to cutting edge culture, Raleigh has almost anything you could ask for. The welcoming, tree lined streets are [...]

Have you ever tried to get to the root cause of a problem, spending hours sweating over the details only to walk away from it for a while or even sleep on it and find yourself with the solution? This is the power of the human mind at the unconscious and subconscious levels. [...]

A flocking applet from Processing – a library that makes it easy to put together interesting graphics and animations for Java applets. I am finally getting around to playing around with it. This Flocking applet is motivated by the original Boids program from Craig Reynold and implemented in Processing by Daniel Shiffman. [...]

Well, here we are at the last Cambrian House IdeaWarz Tournament of Champions of the summer. Only about 50 ideas in this round, but I saw some interesting ones – maybe creativity is making a comeback:
RoadRunner Driveway oil mat – I guess I figured these existed already, but maybe not. A mat [...]

Sorting through 101 ideas this week over at Cambrian House and pulling out the most interesting – at least to me – of the bunch:
Rain Harvester – a BIG idea, but very interesting. With the potential of “Water Wars” – fighting over fresh water – in the near future, this is certainly something to [...]

I have never given so many thumbs down to ideas over at Cambrian House. I don’t know if I am in a bad mood or if the ideas are really that uninspired, but it has been dismal voting on ideas today. Here are some that do sound interesting:
Paraphrased – A wiki user driven [...]