Happy New Year! Slow news week though.

Here's a panorama of Times Square on New Year's Eve (QuickTime required):

Did you have champagne over the holidays? Tiny bubbles are better - when picking champagne, look for more, smaller bubbles:

Cool photos of Osaka, Japan. Seems a little crowded to me:

Is the American Dream over? Business Week said so, and so does this article. More proof that the rich are richer and poor are poorer. "The Death of Horatio Alger":

"The fish that threatened national security":

"Army Stops Many Soldiers From Quitting":

Did you know that 20 billion tampons/sanitary pads went into landfills in 1998? Encourage females to try the Diva Cup:

Will a new high-tech fund in Hawaii work? Local VC Barry Weinman may not like it, but I think the state needs to provide a starter foundation for business before VCs can step in. Local VCs have never been that effective anyway:

The amazing precision of the recent Mars landing - they had to take in account things such as how plate tectonics affected the wobble of the Earth to hit a target 90 million miles away: