If digital-music veteran Rob Lord wanted to court controversy with his new open-source start-up, he probably couldn’t have done much better than to compare Apple Computer’s iTunes software to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Web browser.
Lord’s new five-person company, the ambitiously named Pioneers of the Inevitable, is building a piece of digital-music software called “Songbird,” based on [...]
Dear Dr. Don,
I have the cash in savings to build my own home on my financed land. Is it better to build with cash or to obtain a construction loan? If cash, then after construction is completed, could I then obtain some type of mortgage that would include my land loan and give me back [...]
According to practitioners of traditional Chinese acupuncture, inserting a tiny needle into the little toe can help heal eye problems because the toe and eyes are connected via the same “meridian.”
Not surprisingly, Western experts cast their own jaundiced eye upon such a claim — until a recent high-tech imaging study supported the ancient theory.
“Those researchers [...]