Adam and Jamie, hosts of Mythbusters, compared a CPU vs a GPU to explain parallel processing and the GPU drew an ACTUAL mona lisa drawing using paint balls.  This was presented at NVIDIA’s NVISION Show

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Google Chrome, rumored since 2004, was formally announced on the Google blog over the Labour day weekend.   The oddly timed announcement was forced after Google prematurely sent out a comic book drawn up to herald the new browser’s arrival to some media outlets 
Many are considering this a direct shot at Microsoft, which [...]

Lee Iacocca: Inspirational Business Quote

So as we all wait to see if Obama will end up using Twitter to announce his VP running mate or just use traditional SMS – either way the news will hit twitter faster than a web newbie can figure out how to spell the microblog services name. 
Sens. Evan Bayh of Indiana, Joe Biden [...]

Here’s a great example from Jason Pereira, an advisor with Toronto-based Woodgate Financial Partners/IPC.
Last month, Jason was picked up by Advisor (Advisor.ca) for an article on Tax Efficient Investing using Corporate Class Funds. Advisor’s target is financial advisors across Canada. (Sorry there is no online version of the article yet). The [...]

An interview with Tom Davenport, Professor of Information Technology & Management, Babson College. While some elements of Google’s success as innovator would be very hard to emulate, others can be profitably adopted by almost any business.

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So after a 4 hour opening ceremony, of what could be the best Olympics ever, Canada is tied for 1st place in the medal standings (as of Day 13 Canada is tied for 20th) (Canadian Viewers – CBC listing of daily schedules .
Breaking news…. Olympic Horse doping Jeez.
Olympic wrestler punished by [...]

This is the first post in my series of Personal Development tidbits and an introduction to my newsletter. 
It seems fitting to offer some timeless wisdom from a book called “The Science of Getting Rich” by Wallace D Wattles.  This book should be considered the original Secret (before the Secret was told to everyone… so ). 
The Author’s [...]

“Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important; 2. Promote a vision; 3. Follow the golden rule; 4. Admit mistakes; 5. Criticize others only in private; 6. Stay close to the action. Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.”
– Christian [...]

Pepsico and Enable did a great job on this ad -http://www.pepsi.com/bobshouse/
 Talk about guts to air a silent ad during the most expensive per second broadcast media event of the year.