“Companies of every kind sign their names with linked letters called ligatures. Ligatures make excellent business signatures… Letters link differently. Some link in one typeface and not another. Others link in lowercase but not upper. What follows are two dozen ways to get your latter pairs beautifully together.”

“This is a joint bid between the Internet Multicasting Service (IMS) and the Internet Software Consortium (ISC). We are both public benefit corporations with a long history of operating public works and creating freely available software for key infrastructure services on the Internet. The .org Top Level Domain (TLD) is the home for the noncommercial organizations of the world, and we would operate the .org registry service as a public trust…”

The big tour featuring The Flaming Lips, Cake, De La Soul, Modest Mouse, Kinky and The Hackensaw Boys. And St. Louis is the first stop!

“..cartoonists have also found that blogs can help them speak directly in their own words to fans and thereby extend their reach beyond print readers…”

“What are TCPA and Palladium? TCPA stands for the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA), an initiative led by Intel. Their website is here. Their stated goal is ‘a new computing platform for the next century that will provide for improved trust in the PC platform.’ Palladium appears to be a Microsoft version which will be rolled out in future versions of Windows, will build on TCPA hardware, and will add some extra features.”

“What are TCPA and Palladium? TCPA stands for the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA), an initiative led by Intel. Their website is here. Their stated goal is ‘a new computing platform for the next century that will provide for improved trust in the PC platform.’ Palladium appears to be a Microsoft version which will be rolled out in future versions of Windows, will build on TCPA hardware, and will add some extra features.”

“What are TCPA and Palladium? TCPA stands for the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA), an initiative led by Intel. Their website is here. Their stated goal is ‘a new computing platform for the next century that will provide for improved trust in the PC platform.’ Palladium appears to be a Microsoft version which will be rolled out in future versions of Windows, will build on TCPA hardware, and will add some extra features.”

“The image acknowledged as the world’s first photograph — taken by a French inventor in 1826 — has passed its first full-scale analysis with flying colors and is now awaiting an airtight case that will keep it safe for centuries to come, scientists said Wednesday.”

“The law concisely restricts photographs or other printed reproductions of paper currency, checks, bonds, revenue stamps, and securities of the United States and foreign governments. There are three main criteria included in the Counterfeit Detection Act of 1992, Section 411 of Title 31 that permits color illustrations of U.S. currency. First, the illustration site must be less than three fourths or more than one-and-a-half times the size of the actual currency. The same holds true if you are printing just a part of an item…”

“Network Solutions is a company owned by Verisign that registers and administers top-level domain names for customers throughout the world. These companies engage in a variety of business practices that are, in our opinion, unethical, fraudulent, and calculated to be opaque and unfriendly to consumers. Despite many well-publicized, and in some cases, frankly nefarious, scandals involving these companies, millions of people continue to patronize them as the registrars for their domain names.”

“..cartoonists have also found that blogs can help them speak directly in their own words to fans and thereby extend their reach beyond print readers…”

“Marketing. When most people hear the word, they think of marketing to prospective customers, or to existing ones. Essentially, they think of marketing as an externally-focused business function. But what about marketing to your internal customers — your employees? Employees are walking, talking advocates for your brand.”