• Quark: Educational Promotion for QuarkXPress

    Announced at the same time as its newly free Dual Licensing, Quark launched a special promotion for educators and students. The promotion will allow educational users to purchase QuarkXPress 6 software with maximum convenience at an affordable price. Accredited schools with course offerings that require QuarkXPress can also purchase the software in a deeply discounted…

  • Child Creates Video Game To Fight Cancer

    Make a Wish kid makes a game to fight cancer – Joystiq “ Ben is a 4th grade kid who had cancer. His doctor told him to visualize the disease going away, so Ben and his mom came up with the idea of using Pac-Man. This Pac-Man would run around inside him and eat the…

  • Woman who got wrong sperm wins suit

    My god! Can you imagine the terror she must have felt for the following six months? That poor woman! Woman who got wrong sperm wins suit – PittsburghLIVE.com “ WILMINGTON, N.C. — A jury awarded $435,000 to a woman who was accidentally inseminated with unprepared sperm at a fertility clinic. The award to Kelly Chambliss…

  • A Little Customer Service Effort Goes A Long Way

    Over on Seth’s Blog is this interesting post: “ The thing is, every single person who walks into the Lost Baggage office is annoyed, disappointed, upset or angry. And the hurdle that American has to get over is trivial. “Hi, guys. You look like your luggage is lost. I’m really sorry. Would everyone in the…

  • How To Blog

    Tony Pierce has a very interesting (if contentious) post about how to blog. Most of his list is right on the mark; some misses by a mile. tonypierce.com busblog “ 13. if you havent written about sex, religion, and politics in a week youre probably playing it too safe, which means you probably fucked up…

  • Spider-Man India

    Spider-Man India Costume Design Press Releases – Gotham Comics SPIDER-MAN INDIA–SPIDER-MAN EXTENDS FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD TO STREETS OF BOMBAY! Bangalore, India (June 14, 2004)–Marvel Comics & Gotham Entertainment Group–Indian publishing licensee of Marvel Comics and the leading publisher of international comic magazines in South Asia–announces the launch of Spider-Man India. Spider-Man India interweaves the local customs,…