Hip Hop - the music and the business - has been struggling over the past few years. According to Fox News, “though music sales are down overall, rap sales slid a whopping 21 percent from 2005 to 2006, and for the first time in 12 years no rap album was among the top 10 sellers of […]

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The year was 1984.  The day was December 25.  I was crying.
My hopes of a year filled with wonder and excitement had been dashed, and I blamed Santa.  He had not given me a piece of plastic critical for maintaining a competitive edge with friends at school:

Instead of getting the coolest of all cool toys, […]

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A great reportwas broadcast on NPR yesterday regarding everyone’s favorite, 3-million-year-old, hominid fossil Lucy.
It turns out Lucy is going on tour and will be exhibited in Houston starting next week.
One would think this would be similar to any other historical artifact running the American-museum circuit, be it Ramses’ tomb or Elizabeth’s carriage, but the very idea […]

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If you don’t live under a rock, I’m sure you’ve heard about (and hopefully seen) Apple’s launch of the new iWork ’08, their answer (or is it solution?) to Microsoft Office. Um…wow. It still amazes me how Steve Jobs constantly introduces me to stuff that I didn’t know I needed; and on top of that, […]

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I’ve often thought that one simple way to give American’s a better understanding of the world would be through “footie”. A Secretary of State that promotes, is devoted to, and evangalizes our Sunday football watching, March Madness afflicted, hot dog eating baseball fans of the US to get more engaged with soccer. Having spent long […]

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