Tech News Tuesday June 23, 2009
Today’s Tech News : Google on trial again, Turtle gets second chance, comic book pick, cheap (very cheap) summer reading and yet another “Single Girl” video. . .
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Tech News
US Busy with Broadband
Will the ISP lower the price? After broadband is push aside for faster technology, then what? (BBC . . .)
Google on Trial Again
This time it is in Italy. Google lawyers get all the fun.  (AP. . .)
Sea Turtle
Animal paddles with prosthetic. (Mainichgi . . .)
Indian CEO Don’t Like to Hire American
Blame it on education and greed. Â (Information Week . . .)
Green Country
Replacing all of the country’s lost industrial jobs with green jobs, it is a good idea. (Business Week . . .)
Tron Guy
Selling his customized airplane on eBay (costume not included). (Wired . . .)
Who’s Who
Return of all Dr. Who’s incarnations for one act. Including the dead ones? (Telegraph . . .)
Money, Money, Money
PayPal just rolled out a new website for micro profits. (Do Stuff for Money . . .)
Never Buy TP Again
Actual pitch, “Never run out of toilet paper”. (cnet . . .)
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Comic Book Pick
Acclaimed suspense novelist and New York Times best-selling author Joe Hill (Heart-Shaped Box
Written by Hill
Artwork from Gabriel Rodriguez (Beowulf)
After the loss of the Husband/Father the Locke Family have to move cross country to the family home, called the Keyhouse. The Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them.
Each chapter breaks into the mind and see the tragedy re-enactment from the perspective of each Locke children. We learn why they have such a tough time, given up self identities, burdened with guilt and what motivates them to carry on with life. Not to get to sappy here, but it was done with great creativity and it all comes down to the doors, demons and Bode.
Bode Locke, a six-year-old survivor of the tragedy that claimed his father, is about to get a crash course in death when he walks through an impossible door that separates his spirit from his body. That dam door.
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