I think there are local, marginal , groups to impress, however...

Quoted: That's because Main Street today is a much more confusing place, crowded with niche consumer tribes. Some see status in sneakers, but others in handbags, and still others in eco-chic stuff, and, who knows, ...

Quoted: I think there's a potential danger here that we're changing the currency so often now, that we're not really becoming habituated to what an ordinary bill looks like, and the fact is, it's an overlapping process, so right now you have many different versions of a $5 bill that are about to be put into circulation, or become in circulation, so this could become an issue along the way where people, as you say, kind of look at this and think, "is that right, really?"

good news day?

Quoted: Whatever happened to Netscape? : At one time Netscape, one of the first Web browsers, was unparalleled in its popularity. Now it's all but forgotten and AOL's going to pull the plug on it. Lisa Napoli reports on Netscape's noteworthy history.

Quoted: How much longer can we 'overshoot'? : Our population is consuming about 30% more trees, fish and fossil fuels than the planet can regenerate. How big a hole can we dig before we can't get out of it? Kai Ryssdal talks with Jared Diamond, a geography professor at UCLA.
Author of Collapse (which I read for school)
and Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Society (which I didn't) and The Third Chimpanzee (where's the italics button?)

A Human Element. I'm from the environs of the mythical Berkeley. The article reeks of the ambiance of my hometown.

Quoted: Party at the gas station! : While Big Oil is pumping big profits, independent gas stations selling non-branded fuel are seeing hard times. But reporter Kate Golden found one stubborn holdout in Northern California who's doing a brisk trade by offering tasty foods, good talk and impulse buys.