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...booze and pizza, while simulcast viewers weigh in via Twitter. The wide reach makes some participants nervous. "You have no control over who's listening," says Michael Riordan, 26, who unveiled his plan for a New Age yearbook company at the inaugural Philly event in January. "I didn't give a lot of details...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Open-Mike Night for Entrepreneurs | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

Holmes doesn't romanticize the Romantics. The first great age of ballooning, which began so amusingly in the skies above Paris, rapidly declined into mere showmanship. (The flamboyant Italian aerialist Vincent Lunardi once proposed the following toast: "I give you me, Lunardi - whom all the ladies love!") From there it descended into tragedy and defeat. At one of Lunardi's public launches, a young man got tangled up in some of the balloon's ropes, was dragged aloft, then fell to his death. Lunardi died in poverty, and the dauntless Pilātre was killed while attempting to cross the English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science Feels Sexy in The Age of Wonder | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

...boxed set of the first six books has spent 883 days among Amazon's top 100 kids' books. But the audience never seems to outgrow their appeal, and the movies give otherwise mature and sensible Muggles the chance to fall under J.K. Rowling's spell one more time. The final book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, will be made into two movies, with the last due in July 2011. After that, it will be up to fans to find their own excuses for making a summer night feel magical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moment | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

...with the annoyances that come with compact fluorescent lamps. Yeah, yeah, CFLs use about a third as much energy as old-school incandescent bulbs, last many times as long and can save consumers an average of $50 over the life of a bulb. But the light that standard CFLs give off doesn't seem inviting, they can't be used with a dimmer, and they take way too long to turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Better Bulbs | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

...year with the gang in northern California. The group says a typical member rides 20,000 miles a year, usually on the Angels' preferred machines, Harley-Davidsons. And members still refer to themselves as "one percenters" - a half-century-old boast playing off the saying that 1% of troublemakers give a bad name to 99% of respectable bikers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hells Angels | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

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