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Good Morning!
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-- Calvin Coolidge
News
21,000 domains transfer out of Go Daddy in 1 day
Domain registrar Go Daddy lost over 21,000 domains yesterday. It could be a coincidence--or it could be the result of the company's p.r. debacle over its support for the Stop Online Piracy Act.
Yesterday, Go Daddy actually reversed course and dropped its support for the controversial legislation. "Go Daddy will support it when and if the Internet community supports it," Go Daddy CEO Warren Adelman announced in a statement.
SOPA, introduced in Congress this fall, would make it easier for the Justice Department to shut down sites allegedly dedicated to piracy.
An anti-Go Daddy thread on social site Reddit led to the creation of Godaddyboycott.org, a site set up to let people amass their disapproval with the company's support of SOPA.
The 12 most-read 2011 articles in 50 Best
From gadgets to cookery books, Steve Anderson runs down the most popular 50 Best lists published in 2011, as well as the editor's favourite
Widener heir's legacy: A home for the homeless
For more than a decade, James W. Ray was trapped in a fog of drugs and mental illness. In and out of hospitals and emergency rooms, he sometimes landed in halfway houses or jail, one step from the streets.
He told anyone who would listen that he was a rich man. That his family once had a 110-room mansion with masterpieces by Rembrandt and Renoir, and ancestral portraits by John Singer Sargent. That his great-granddad owned a racetrack in Miami.
Nurses and caseworkers nodded politely while jotting down observations like "delusions of grandeur" and "inflated self-worth" in his records.
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When he died at 52 in 2005 in Seattle, single, childless, unnoticed, James Widener Ray left his entire fortune of almost $80 million to a nonprofit he started in the more lucid last years of his life.
Wanamaker legacy at 100
In a horse-and-buggy age, it rose as a 12-story temple to retailing. It stands today as a place of worship for a metropolis of pedestrians, poets, and holiday shoppers enchanted by the tradition it embodies and the majesty of its architecture.
One hundred years ago Friday in Philadelphia, William Howard Taft stood on a stage above the bronze eagle statue inside the Wanamaker Building and dedicated the city's first modern department store. The presidential visit capped seven years of construction on the monolith at 13th and Market Streets that, after renovations through the decades, is now one of the largest office buildings in the 21st-century city.
Husky sledding in the Arctic with Dior and Armani
"Ready?" And suddenly we are off and running. The speed is wonderful but not excessive. In their excitement the dogs sprint like crazy for about 50m before settling into a lope. Huskies were bred for endurance rather than speed. The Chukchi tribe from Siberia, who started using dogs 3,000 years ago, kept up a strong wolf input, but also required some tractability. The dogs might have to share the tipi on very cold nights – hence the Chukchi phrase "a three dog night".