A great source of information on US / World / Financial / Entertainment / Other news.
The best part is that The Week doesn't write any original content, they monitor media sources from around the world, and often present various views on the same story.
I like this because:
I'm too busy to stay well informed otherwise
I feel that I get to see both sides of important issues and events
Project done by one person: $5000 Project with larger group/more overhead/more support/whatever that reduces risk of failure by 50%: $10,000 Cost of failure (due to lost opportunity, re-bidding the project, etc): $30,000
Being the middle manager who will keep his job by making the right choice: Priceless
Slashdot Mirror
But what's the strangest place you've ever read Slashdot from, or the most remote place you're currently reading it from?
Not being capable of omnipresence or even polypresence, the most remote, and only, place I am currently reading from is my office desk in Atlanta.
The best part is that The Week doesn't write any original content, they monitor media sources from around the world, and often present various views on the same story.
I like this because:
Project done by one person: $5000
Project with larger group/more overhead/more support/whatever that reduces risk of failure by 50%: $10,000
Cost of failure (due to lost opportunity, re-bidding the project, etc): $30,000
Being the middle manager who will keep his job by making the right choice: Priceless
Now only one company will be creating pop-unders, so we'll see less of them.