Miscellaneous Ramblings

Anshe Chung’s achievement is all the more remarkable because the fortune was developed over a period of two and a half years from an initial investment of $9.95 for a Second Life account by Anshe’s creator, Ailin Graef.

If you have ever felt like you had to dig around the Internet for good content, you might want to look at something called Digg (http://www.digg.com).

Wired News gives our readers the opportunity to nominate whatever it was they most looked forward to, and were cruelly denied.

It takes only a few minutes to "tour" the bend in the Molt-Rapelje Road that once was Wheat Basin. But for Don Nordahl, 84, the tour teases up a time and place that has long since faded from the prairie.

"This cooling effect cancels the impact of the greenhouse gases,"

How does your office stackup?

Everything you wanted to know about the Kazakh road trip — what was staged, who was an actor, and who was just hapless comedy roadkill.

Millions of viewers of NBC’s Heroes know actor Masi Oka as Hiro Nakamura, the bored young Japanese office worker who discovers he has the power to alter time and teleport but he still works at Industrial Light and Magic.

Now scientists are trying to figure out how we can maximize the benefits that these cells bring, potentially boosting brain power and slowing cognitive decline.

Recipe: Invest $11.5 million, wait less than 12 months …Receive $495 million