China has banned newspapers, publishers and website-owners from using foreign words – particularly English ones. China’s state press and publishing body said such words were sullying the purity of the Chinese language.
It said standardised Chinese should be the norm: the press should avoid foreign abbreviations and acronyms, as well as “Chinglish” – which is a mix of English and Chinese.
If you are planning on trading in a game you got for Christmas at GameStop, you might want to take a police escort with you. Apparently the new “fun-time” activity is robbing GameStop.
Thieves have struck their third video game store in less than a week. Police are investigating all three cases, but so far they don’t believe any of them are connected.
I actually had a chance to talk to the guy who invented this. I run kegs at Fenway Park, and they did a trial run of these things for a short period of time on just a few taps last year. The guy who invented it hung around the stand the whole game. He’s under 25, a mechanic, and made the prototype out of spare car parts. He actually gives out the machines and makes his money selling the cups. I asked him what made him come up with the idea, and if he ever worked as a bartender. he said “No, I just love beer.”
Hugh Hefner may be 84 years old but he is showing no signs of slowing down anytime soon. Hefner got engaged to his girlfriend, Crystal Harris, 24, for Christmas.
Hefner tweeted about it saying,
“After the movie tonight, Crystal & I exchanged gifts. I gave Crystal a ring. A truly memorable Christmas Eve.” He later tweeted, “When I gave Crystal the ring, she burst into tears. This is the happiest Christmas weekend in memory.”
Merck was in trouble. In 2002, the pharmaceutical giant was falling behind its rivals in sales. Even worse, patents on five blockbuster drugs were about to expire, which would allow cheaper generics to flood the market. The company hadn’t introduced a truly new product in three years, and its stock price was plummeting.
In interviews with the press, Edward Scolnick, Merck’s research director, laid out his battle plan to restore the firm to preeminence. Key to his strategy was expanding the company’s reach into the antidepressant market, where Merck had lagged while competitors like Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline created some of the best-selling drugs in the world. “To remain dominant in the future,” he told Forbes, “we need to dominate the central nervous system.”
Network neutrality is the idea that your cellular, cable, or phone internet connection should treat all websites and services the same. Big companies like AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast want to treat them differently so they can charge you more depending on what you use.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is currently debating legislation to define limits for internet service providers (ISPs). The hope is that they will keep the internet open and prevent companies from discriminating against different kinds of websites and services.
