http://www.articlealley.com en-us editorial@articlealley.com Space-age technology has given us a number of modern mainstays ... Now, it's about to give us a traffic ticket. Satellite tracking has come to the highways. The United Arab Emirates has begun the process of deploying 700,000 black boxes in their cit... http://www.articlealley.com/article_42662_29.html 08th April 2006 It was only a matter of time before cyberspace prevailed in the music industry ... 'Crazy' by Gnarls Barkley made history by becoming the Number One song in the United Kingdom's singles charts without one CD being available in stores. Over 31,000 legal... http://www.articlealley.com/article_41984_48.html 05th April 2006 This is a case of 'let the seller beware' ... The tiny Polynesian island nation of Niue is beginning to think it's been had. Frankly, it's clear they didn't do their homework before they did their deal. Ironically, it seems the buyer hadn't reall... http://www.articlealley.com/article_41335_80.html 03rd April 2006 Whether Robert Maxwell committed suicide or was murdered may never be known to the public ... Suffice it to say the disgraced publishing magnate cheated so many people and financial institutions to such an extent that there wouldn't be a paucity of sus... http://www.articlealley.com/article_40677_24.html 01st April 2006 An interesting ruling was made in the British Court of Appeals recently ... The justices determined that British customers who use a credit card abroad or on the internet will be given the same protection as those who shop in Britain. This decision ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_39208_15.html 28th March 2006 Just when you think the sports world has produced every possible bizarre trade imaginable, they still manage to top themselves ... A broadcaster for a rabbit. And a cartoon rabbit, at that. When baseball journeyman Harry Chiti got dealt to the New Y... http://www.articlealley.com/article_35500_32.html 12th March 2006 The Winter Olympics and America seem only to be fair weather friends ... Underwhelming television ratings for the recently completed games in Turin indicate that the USA is only inclined to watch when their athletes are winning. Specifically, they watc... http://www.articlealley.com/article_33278_32.html 05th March 2006 The need to continue giving aid to the victims of Hurricane Katrina must remain a priority ... It's now months after the American Gulf Coast was devastated. Billions have been spent in relief, but billions more are needed. Such is the scope of a storm ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_33000_24.html 05th March 2006 Apparently, it's time to turn the page on the original Seven Wonders of the World ... Since only one of them is left standing, and since most people can't remember what the rest of them are, anyway, this is a good idea for someone who has too much time... http://www.articlealley.com/article_30814_29.html 20th February 2006 It seems the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval has been replaced by Oprah Winfrey when it comes to a validation of credibility ... Having said that, if I'm not mistaken, all the former ever meant was that the product or service in question paid to adv... http://www.articlealley.com/article_30577_15.html 19th February 2006 Here is the first rule anyone learns who is even remotely concerned with marketing ... "Sell the sizzle and not the steak." In other words, an appeal to what excites the consumer is much more effective than the properties of the product. This is not... http://www.articlealley.com/article_30576_3.html 19th February 2006 Samuel Johnson said it almost 300 years ago, and I still believe it today ... "If you're tired of London, you're tired of life." I enjoy many locations around the world, but none so much as London. It's the center of civilization, as far as I'm conc... http://www.articlealley.com/article_30548_29.html 19th February 2006 Sir Winston Churchill once observed that Americans and the British are 'a common people divided by a common language' ... Never was that as true as when describing the Cockneys. You've certainly heard their accent, made famous in everything from mov... http://www.articlealley.com/article_30544_29.html 19th February 2006 History weaves its influence into pop culture via many avenues ... One of the strangest is the Viking influence on Star Trek, especially The Next Generation. Ever since that series found the airwaves, I've often wondered if one or more of its writers w... http://www.articlealley.com/article_30295_22.html 17th February 2006 Immortality is so much better when you can stay around long enough to realize it ... In that respect, the Ramones endured to at least have a hint it was being bestowed upon them. Once again, you've got a chance to see why. If you were among the many... http://www.articlealley.com/article_30155_48.html 17th February 2006 Shakespeare could wax poetic about 'What's in a Name?' because he didn't have to contend with sports mascots ... It's the politically-correct issue in America that refuses to subside. I consider myself to be an enlightened cyberbeing, but I contend the... http://www.articlealley.com/article_30150_32.html 17th February 2006 It seems they've been busy on the isle of Vanuatu ... That's where a company called Global Digital Transfers Inc ('GDT') placed their headquarters for DXinOne, the e-currency exchange system that is the main topic on Longer Life's Opportunity page. ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_29719_15.html 16th February 2006 What we need is the Dewey Decimal System to go digital ... Specifically, someone needs to coax their keepers into putting some logical order into how computer viruses are sorted. Recently, warnings abounded about the Kama Sutra virus quickly prolife... http://www.articlealley.com/article_29686_15.html 16th February 2006 The coming of light is often cause for celebration ... In Sweden, that's why there's joy and frivolity every 13 December. It's Luciafest --- the Festival of Lights --- that marks the unofficial beginning of their Christmas season. Luciafest --- also... http://www.articlealley.com/article_29641_29.html 16th February 2006 From a historical perspective, 'The DaVinci Code' is good fiction ... I do think the book has provided a very real cultural benefit, though. By weaving many tales of medieval Christian mysticism into its story line, the book has stimulated a multitude ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_29560_51.html 16th February 2006 The legendary George Carlin made a career out of calling attention to the difference between how words and phrases are perceived as opposed to what they're 'actually' saying ... He would ask wonderfully rhetorical questions, my favorite of which was th... http://www.articlealley.com/article_29491_50.html 16th February 2006 Comedian Chevy Chase, when he anchored the first Saturday Night Live faux-news desk, had a running joke that satirized, post-mortem, the endless medical updates provided by the public relations machine of a dying dictator ... "Here's a bulletin from Sp... http://www.articlealley.com/article_29467_15.html 16th February 2006 When geeks gave us the Internet and the means to use it, they also gave us a new segment of vocabulary ... I've often thought it a shame that a few of them didn't make their way to a campus literature or marketing department and see if a student of poe... http://www.articlealley.com/article_29459_15.html 16th February 2006 The best way to cheapen anything is to overuse it ... I recall a sports clip from many years ago, where a veteran basketball player near the end of his career was reminiscing about his prime and comparing it to the supporting-cast status he was about t... http://www.articlealley.com/article_29397_50.html 15th February 2006 Years ago, upon my first-ever arrival in Paris, there was no doubt as to where I would begin my itinerary ... I went immediately to the Père Lachaise cemetery. That's the final resting place of such luminaries as Voltaire, Victor Hugo, Sarah Berhhar... http://www.articlealley.com/article_29127_48.html 14th February 2006 Historians teach that the USA emerged from its isolationist ways when it entered World War I ... Geography teachers may dispute that point. Whenever an American media outlet wants to re-emphasize the issue, they merely find one of many studies that ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_29113_29.html 14th February 2006 One way to confirm that cyberspace is the great equalizer is to observe the quality of editing that exists ... I am truly amazed at the mangling endured by the English language on a significant number of sites. It's fair to assume that this malady has ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_29107_51.html 14th February 2006 Business always moves faster than government ... It's no surprise that a great deal of lawmakers' time is spent reacting to advances in commerce and science. It's also no surprise that one of their favorite tactics is to call on their enforcement agenc... http://www.articlealley.com/article_29099_15.html 14th February 2006 I think I've just seen another miracle on ice ... The National Hockey League is back on one of the major American broadcast networks. Some would call that a miracle in itself, but I'm taking higher ground. Specifically, I'm referring to the quality of ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_29084_32.html 14th February 2006 A centuries-old mystery has crossed my path again ... I mentioned in a recent article that there was a dispute in many academic quarters regarding the actual Viking deity being honored by the name, 'Friday.' The cold, hard fact is that unless someone u... http://www.articlealley.com/article_28926_22.html 14th February 2006 Online speculation regarding the 'investment opportunity' the new Iraqi Dinar represents is becoming a virtual cottage industry ... However,I'm already on record as believing it's a great way to acquire wallpaper one note at a time. With that in min... http://www.articlealley.com/article_28887_19.html 14th February 2006 There is no denying that the sports business these days is awash in bright lights ... Quite often, though, the same can't be said for the people or practices involved. The passage of time, the fading of origins and the constant superseding of slang ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_28883_32.html 14th February 2006 Whoever said, "You can't take it with you" was obviously not referring to a sense of humor ... Here is a list of actual epitaphs from departed souls who clearly had more to say than the time to say it, or from their next of kin, who wanted to be sure t... http://www.articlealley.com/article_28868_50.html 14th February 2006 Cyberspace has certainly shrunk the margin of error ... Colloquialisms used to take quite a while to become embedded in a local vernacular. For example, the Americans expunged the British from the colonies in 1789, but based upon personal letters excha... http://www.articlealley.com/article_28724_50.html 13th February 2006 "Stay long precious metals" ... I'm beginning to think that's Graeme Irvine's mantra. He's the business columnist on Longer Life's Bourse page, and I'll leave it to you to discover his reasons for this four-word chant. Amidst Graeme's siren calls, I... http://www.articlealley.com/article_28653_19.html 12th February 2006 No one really knows exactly how the first beer came into being ... Suffice it to say that, around 10,000 years ago, somebody let a primordial barley and hop concoction stand long enough for it to ferment. The result not only made anonymous history, it ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_27423_26.html 03rd February 2006