On the day after Squid Day, I got mail from the publishing company Immedium*, letting me know they'd just come out with a new children's book: Sid the Squid and the Search for the Perfect Job.…

In the alchemical days of building your own circuit boards, you had to swirl hand-masked boards in noxious chemicals to burn away the layers you needed. Now, you can just pay by the inch. It's a…

In the 1980s, computer generated characters were the rage so people were always looking for a way to use them in films, regardless of whether or not it helped or hurt the story.   So it goes…

Arctic Ice November 2010 Return to previous Arctic conditions is unlikelyRecord temperatures across Canadian Arctic and Greenland, a reduced summer sea ice cover, record snow cover decreases and…

BLAINVILLE, Quebec, October 26, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- A new player has entered into the Canadian orphan drug landscape: Medunik Canada, with a mission to bring currently unavailable orphan therapies…

AMSTERDAM, October 26, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Following a plenary meeting on 13 October 2010, The European Automated Clearing House Association (EACHA) has elected a new Board. Fred Bar (VocaLink) has…

AMSTERDAM, October 26, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- VocaLink, the international payments specialist, today announced that BAWAG P.S.K., Austria's fifth largest bank, has successfully outsourced its SWIFT…

It's playoff time in baseball and the Giants have home field advantage over the Texas Rangers starting tomorrow, October 27th. Baseball, more so than any other sport, lends itself to numerical…

Anyone in their late 20s who lived in Minnesota in 1991 remembers the record-setting Great Halloween Blizzard, which dropped several feet of snow across the state and bestowed upon children a few…

Let it be clear on this publically, to show I am not kidding: there is a scientology ad on the right column today. If that is not gone by tomorrow from here, I will.