The last time I was bullied was at the age of eight, I was in the third grade. I went to some all white, racist school in the Northeast section ofPhiladelphia. I was the only Black kid in my school and believe me, I felt and knew that I was the only Black kid in my school. Rose, I was ca... Read more...
While the hard drive shortage continues, Western Digital suffers another loss. Western Digital has suffered a major hit as rival Seagate Technology wins an arbitration award worth $525 million, pending confidential arbitration action in Minnesota. Basically, the arbitration award is b... Read more...
Greenspeed from Greenspeed on Vimeo. A student club at Boise State University has set a speed record for a vegetable-oil powered vehicle, using a mixture of cottonseed and sunflower oil for fuel. In a 1998 S-10 pickup, the team of students bested the former record standard of 109 mph two co... Read more...
The once-rumored stand-up tour with Dave Chappelle still might happen. During a chat with Vulture about his movie 2 Days In New York, Rock briefly talked to us about his upcoming projects, and while he didn’t have much to say about his role in the omnibus comedy What To Expect When You’re Expe... Read more...
Men and women in their late teens and early 20s are struggling, but some are especially hard hit. According to U.S. Census Bureau figures, the unemployment rate last year among high-school dropouts between ages 16 and 24 was 29%-up from 17.7% in 2000 and seven points higher than that of their p... Read more...
I write about a lot of things and lately I have been writing heavy but today I actually don’t want to write about one particular topic. I just want to free write and reflect on a few things in my life, if you don’t mind. One of my earliest memories as a human being/child was my grandmother com... Read more...
One in seven Chicagoans age 19 to 24 are dropouts and the costs to the city and state are staggering, according "High School Dropouts in Chicago and Illinois: The Growing Labor Market, Income, Civic, Social and Fiscal Costs of Dropping Out of High School," a report Northeastern University research... Read more...
Apple Computers - The Apple Boogie (Mixtape) Here we have the nearly-forgotten cassette of music that Apple put out in the late 980s.The Next Web tracked it down and you can download all the tracks and lyrics to the songs right here. "The Apple Boogie" is a collection of 8 tracks that are ... Read more...
The U.S. government seized the domain of a small but influential music blog a year ago under charges that look pretty bogus, then kept it under lock and key for more than a year, according to this completely outrageous story by Mike Masnick at Techdirt. Around Thanksgiving 2010, the Department of... Read more...