A new “Web 2.0″ company called Check Tonight is being launched that combines several trends:
1. The proliferation of cell phones.
2. The proliferation of social communities.
3. The proliferation of “weenie rot”
As with MySpace, members set up profiles (wise guys will call them “member profiles”). But instead of listing the music one likes, users post medical records […]
From Marginal Revolution:
In Race, Poverty and American Tort Awards (and here), Eric Helland and I show that tort awards increase strongly with county poverty rates especially with minority poverty. A 1% increase in black poverty rates, for example, can increase tort awards by 3-10 percent with a similar increase in Hispanic poverty rates. […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Rosie Costello, 46, admitted in U.S. District Court that she collected more than $280,000 in benefits, beginning in the mid-1980s by having her two children fake retardation starting when they were 4 and 8 years old.
Her now grown son, Pete, 26, pleaded guilty earlier this month. Federal prosecutors in Seattle said Monday authorities had not […]
Move Over Al Gore, Help Has Arrived
Former Canadian defense minister Paul Hellyer, 83, is demanding governments worldwide disclose and use secret alien technologies obtained in alleged UFO crashes to stem climate change.
“I would like to see what (alien) technology there might be that could eliminate the burning of fossil fuels within a generation […]
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