And you thought your Driving Force GT was pricey. Thrustmaster is today introducing its newest gaming accessory, a startlingly expensive new racing wheel designed to give PlayStation 3 and PC gamers the chance to feel as if they truly are screaming ahead in hopes of being first to fly under the checkered flag.
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by Georgia Levenson Keohane
In 2006, Muhammad Yunus was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his pioneering work in the field of microcredit. As the founder of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, Yunus demonstrated that lending money to poor people to start businesses could be profitable and could transform their lives by raising them out of poverty. Today, Yunus is advocating something even more revolutionary: an entire market system of companies that solve social problems and are financially self-sustaining.
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Despite injuries to Cesc Fabregas, left, the Spain squad is strong and have lost just one of their last 45 games. Photograph: Susana Vera/REUTERS
THE BIG GUNS
Spain’s mood going into the World Cup can be summed up in a single phrase: Esta vez sí que somos favoritos – “this time we really are favourites”. The “unlike every other time” goes without saying. Spain have gone into every tournament telling themselves they can win it but this time they really do believe, despite injuries to Cesc Fábregas and Fernando Torres. Fábregas’s penalty in the quarter-final of Euro 2008 and Torres’s goal in the final didn’t just change Spain’s past, they changed the future too, reinforcing their footballing identity and providing the edge that Spain lacked. There has never been a squad as good as this and the European champions have lost just one of their last 45 games.
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by Lauren Indvik
The top stories in the mainstream press are markedly different than those that lead on social media platforms, a recent study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism revealed.
Furthermore, what is popular on one social network rarely proves popular on another. In the 29 weeks that the Center tracked news items on blogs, Twitter and YouTube, the three platforms only shared the same top story once — the week of June 15-19, 2009, when Iranian citizens flocked to the streets to contest the results of the presidential election.
Let’s take a look at what was popular on the different social networking sites and how that compares to what gained traction with traditional news media in 2009.
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by Andrew O’Connell
Believe it or not, the mere thought of you can make your employees do a lousy job.
In fact, if your employees consider you a controlling person, even an unconscious thought of you can have a negative effect on their performance. If, for example, they were to happen to subliminally see, out of the corner of their eyes, your name flash for 60 milliseconds, you could expect them to start working less hard. Even if they didn’t intend to slack off.
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Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo has jumped to the defence of Fernando Alonso in the wake of recent criticism of Spaniard.
Alonso made a dream start to his Ferrari career with victory in the season-opening grand prix in Bahrain, since when mistakes have been made.
Notably, Alonso was involved in a first-corner collision with old rival Michael Schumacher in the subsequent race in Australia.
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by Steven Sande
OK, I’m not sure where I want to go with this.
On the one hand, this is a clever way to carry your iPad when you’re out hitting the clubs on Friday night. On the other hand, there’s something a little strange about seeing a good-looking woman wearing a “little black dress” with a huge pocket in the front of it.
The Australian iClothing team of Davina Reichman and Luke Staley has created a complete line of iPad-compatible clothing, as long as you consider one style of dress and a unisex t-shirt to be a line. The iDress (AUD$89.95) is a take on the classic “little black dress” of durable cotton sateen with a built-in protective pouch for the iPad. I somehow think this has something to do with the plethora of marsupials in Australia…perhaps.
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