Analyst: VC Confidence At New Low

Though Phil Gramm's pretty sure the recession is all in our heads, it seems that just about every road to a healthy economy is either closed or under construction. The road to Silicon Valley, according to one analyst, is at best at a standstill.

Microsoft, Icahn Reply To Yahoo’s Rejection

Microsoft and Yahoo both employ intelligent, well-educated men and women.  Carl Icahn's pretty sharp, too.  Recent acquisition dealings seem to have turned a great many people into finger-pointing fifth graders, though, and there's been another salvo of letters and statements to support this argument.

Virgin Launches Strip2Clothe Charitable Campaign

When we moved last month, my wife and I toted out 43 garbage bags of clothing we culled from our closets to donate to charity—some garments, a little shamefully, with the tags still on them. I'll let that act serve as rationale enough for not sending Virgin Mobile a video of myself stripping—although Chris Farley's got nothing on me as far as moves go.

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An Australian woman known as the world's oldest blogger has died at the age of 108.Olive Riley, from Woy Woy around 50 miles north of Sydney, started blogging in February of 2007. In her final post she talked about her declining health but also said she still sings a happy song every day.