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The Commodore name licensed again for a line of keyboard PCs
We’ve always had a soft spot for Commodore computers. Compact, economical, and robust for their day, they were ubiquitous throughout the 1980s. Unfortunately, the machine’s glory days are long behind it, with little more than some gaming rigs and the tireless work of Ben Heck to keep the flag flying.
But all that could change if Barry Altman has his way. As President and CEO of the newly minted Commodore USA, he’s spent the better part of a year crawling through the arcane red tape necessary to get the rights to the Commodore name.
The History of the World in 75 Seconds
At first it was all blackness….
Pepsi is dropping out of schools worldwide by 2012
PepsiCo on Tuesday announced plans to voluntarily remove high-calorie sweetened drinks from schools for kids up to age 18 in more than 200 countries by 2012. Coke and Pepsi agreed to stop selling sugary drinks in U.S. schools in 2006.
The Top 13 Bond Girls of all Time
With the recent rumors that Camille Montes Rivero, the female lead in Quantum of Solace, may become only the second Bond girl to appear in multiple James Bond films (the first, Sylvia Trench, appeared in the franchise’s very first two films), we got to thinking about which Bond girls are our favorites.
We considered a number of attributes in assembling this Top 13, including intelligence, charisma, impact on the Bond franchise and popular culture, and, of course, sex appeal. So in the spirit of James Bond films, pour yourself a martini and enjoy the Top 13 Bond Girls of all time.
1 Honor Blackman as Pussy Galore
2 Diana Rigg as Teresa di Vicenzo
3 Famke Jansen as Xenia Onatopp
4 Jill St. John as Tiffany Case
5 Barbara Bach as Anya Amasova
6 Ursula Andress as Honey Ryder
7 Eva Green as Vesper Lynd
8 Jane Seymour as Solitaire
9 Shirley Eaton as Jill Masterton
10 Grace Jones as May Day
11 Lois Chiles as Holly Goodhead
12 Claudine Auger as Domino Derval
13 Britt Ekland as Mary Goodnight
