Daily Archives: 5/3/2005

Morn!

I have a few friends who work at Morningstar, Inc. here in Chicago. Today comes news of their IPO.
CHICAGO — Morningstar Inc., the research firm best known for its mutual fund data, on Monday filed to sell about $140.8 million of stock in an initial public offering.

The stock will trade on the Nasdaq Stock [...]

And people wonder why the US is the fattest nation…

It looks like someone has defeated the hamdog, which I’ve mentioned before, at least in terms of pure grossness.
Pa. Eatery Offers New 15-Pound Burger
The burger war is growing. Literally. Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub, which lost its crown as the home of the world’s biggest burger earlier this year, is now offering a new burger that [...]

Oh my god, you killed Star Trek! You bastards?

Orson Scott Card had a pretty good commentary on the current “end” of Star Trek.
His basic position is that it should have gotten better with subsequent versions of the show, but ended up getting stuck int he 60’s television mindset of keeping it dumbed down and not making it “good” science fiction. I can’t [...]