mike | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 07 2007 | space, simonyi, travel, npr, radio, friends
All Things Considered covered Charles's space flight.
Quoted: Billionaire Charles Simonyi, a former Microsoft guru, is blasting off into space this weekend. Simonyi paid $25 million for a short vacation in Earth's orbit on the International Space Station. He says the private spaceflight industry is beginning to take off.
ShareViewed: 12 Times- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 26 2007 | science, radio, npr, blue dot
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Quoted: Science Friday Feed on Blue Dot
ShareViewed: 2 Times - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 16 2007 | mandela, South Africa, history, radio, npr, aparthheid
I heard a little of this on the radio today. It's REALLY good.
Quoted: A five-part radio series to mark the 10th anniversary of South Africa's first democratic election. With the resource of more than 150 hours of archival recordings and interviews, Mandela: An Audio History tells the story of the struggle against apartheid in a way that has never been done before.
There's also a web site for the series:
http://www.radiodiaries.org/mandela/index.htmlShareViewed: 4 Times - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 12 2007 | microsoft, npr, radio
Story on NPR talking about people who were lucky enough to start in the hey-day of Microsoft - and those that came later when the stock price had flattened out.
Quoted: The tech explosion over the last 20 years or so minted stock-option millionaires by the thousands. But, as in other areas of the Internet economy, those who came late fared less well — often much less.
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