A woman is fighting the City Council in Providence to issue her a permit to run a colon-cleansing service out of her home.

With blog sites now narrowing their specialty niche, a crazy new one has just emerged – Preshrunk: a blog for cool t-shirts

Cory Doctorow:
On the heels of the long post I made the other day in response to Wired’s Editor-in-Chief own blog-post on Digital Rights Management, lots of people have commented on the debate. Generally the comments are very good, but there’s this pack of straw-man arguments that keeps popping up: “The companies are just [...]

Malcolm Bricklin, the man who brought the Yugo and Subaru to the United States has a new project — becoming the first mass importer of low-cost Chinese-made cars.

Akzo Nobel has developed a unique temporary paint system which can peeled off after use.

Sheila Ann Manuel Coggins: For more than 12 months, I’ve been visiting, trying out and reviewing several weblog tools – from aggregators (blog readers) to weblog software. With a lot of tools flooding the blogosphere right now, bloggers are bound to favor some over others. These are my top favorites for 2004.

The Laddermill consists of a series of wings or kites all connected to a cable that forms a huge loop. Like the wings of an aeroplane will the wind cause an upward lift force to the wings. By changing the attitude of the wing (angle of attack with respect to the wind) the lift force [...]

Today, 349 refugees and immigrants from 43 nations have been through StartSmart’s classes or coaching. Thirty percent of them have started businesses, and 70% of those start-ups are still in operation.