Visualize the challenge
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NEEDHAM -- Outside the campus-like headquarters of Parametric Technology Corp. on a late summer afternoon, employees crowd around a pair of Callaway sports cars, peering under the hoods at engines that have been supercharged to race at 190 miles per hour.
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By David Williams, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn.  Feb. 14--Imagine an adventure sprung from the pages of a comic book.  Imagine a real-life version of a video game.
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A company based in Pakistan offers a challenge to a market dominated by Microsoft, Google and Yahoo.
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I recently participated in some war-game-style what-if exercises with a small group of IT execs. The goal was to stimulate thinking about how corporations can best prepare for, and respond to, significant business disruptions, whether from terrorism, weather, biological threats, or other unexpected shocks.
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Thereâs still a number of outstanding issues, some in the public domain. Itâs fairly obvious what they are. âWe will continue over the next day or so to bring those to conclusions.
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Sharper Image stock may be worth a look at current levels.
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This is interesting .  43Things has tags as well!  A lot of people are using the Flickr dynamic and bold font treemap view which I'm not sure is good or bad. I've never been fully happy with this view but a lot of people seem to like it (so what do I know!)
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Take a look at a worst-case scenario for the markets.
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People who are bored need to create more challenges and find more meaning in their work lives.
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The work on display at the Michelin Design Challenge showed a variety of inventive solutions to the contest's theme: "Smaller. Safer. Better.".
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Paolo hypothesizes a much-needed tool in a post yesterday, and a follow-up today.
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Microscopic imaging techniques have enabled scientists to delve deep into the brain of a living animal to see how visual circuitry works.
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Focus on the consumer's everyday needs.
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The challenge is clear and the opportunity is there. It is now up to our new prime minister to show that the modern corporate mind can deliver on the national public policy objectives of a poor country.
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It's not exactly light reading, but there's plenty of good news in a report from the National Academy of Engineering. It's a list of the "Grand Challenges" in engineering this century compiled by an array of experts like the genetics researcher J. Craig Ventner and Google's Larry Page. What's encouraging isn't so much the list [...].
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Chess is very hard. As the game proceeds through its early and middle stages, the number of possible moves greatly increases.
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Printing with Lightroom on Leopard...getting Photoshopped for Christmas...cell phones with 5x optical zoom...the optical triangle illusion