The Ashes

Bride’s role in the bridal shower Originally, the bride’s role in the bridal shower was quite simple: according to legend, a well to do Dutch or Danish girl who fell in love with a poor miller’s apprentice was said to have become engaged to the young men against the wishes of her father. In an [...]

A 29 year old girl by the name of Rosemary Port (pictured left) was the author of a blog called Skanks in NYC.  The blog heavily criticized model Liskula Cohen (pictured right). On the blog, Cohen was called an “old hag” and other defamatory comments.  As a result, Cohen decided to send an injunction to [...]

Micro-payment service Tipjoy attempted to sell itself, but it turns out that they will be shutting down instead.  Facebook even offered Tipjoy $5 million in stock.  Facebook walked away from the deal and Tipjoy shut down shortly after. Even though Tipjoy decided to shut down, Facebook was able to hire one of the company’s executives.  [...]

Intel Corporation has acquired two companies in the last 30 days.  The two companies are Cilk and Rapidmind.  Both companies are small and employ less than 50 people.  Intel also acquired Wind River Systems this past June. “Over the last few years, there has been a gradual emergence of multicore microprocessors. It’s put parallelism in [...]

Who doesn’t love rose quartz in all its varying hues of pink? Rose quartz takes its name from the flower because of its translucent and delicate pink color caused by traces of iron, manganese or titanium. Rose quartz is usually very large – meaning that it doesn’t form crystals. Rose quartz is found in Madagascar, [...]

Samsung Electronics Inc.’s Instinct HD mobile handset was spotted by the Best Buy website.  The specs of the Samsung Instinct HD include 5 megapixel camera, HD TV-out, WiFi, and visual voicemail.  The words “Prices effective Sunday, August 23rd – Saturday, September 26th” was written on the Best Buy website indicating when the phone is expected [...]

Peerialism is a new, upcoming BitTorrent tracking software that is supposed to be released next month.  The company promises to increase download speeds by 150% and to decrease the load on ISP networks by 20-50%. Peerialism’s software is based on OpenTracker software. “In standard BitTorrent the tracker chooses a totally random number of peers for [...]

As you may know, the apron front kitchen sinks are among the hottest items in the market these days that a great number of customers anywhere in the world are looking for them. Being so popular, the apron front kitchen sinks are now widely offered even online to provide the people easy access to such [...]

When you select carpet for your home, you have many things to consider and many different options to weigh as well. Carpets come in many different colors and styles, textures and fibers, and there are many different qualities to choose from as well. Carpet choices The two most popular choices of carpet today are the [...]

Some people will walk into a home improvement store expecting to walk out with a new bathtub. However, they did not think of all that entails which deciding to purchase and install a new bathtub. On the other hand, there are people like you who are reading articles like this. That is a very good [...]