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Some Silicon Valley technology bloggers have criticized the fund for the narrowness of its scope, comparing it to an unsuccessful Java-targeted fund from the late 1990s. The focus on a specific technology could increase the fund’s risk to investors, its critics have suggested...
...nation of 17,000 islands "seemed to be breaking up and slowly sinking." Nowhere was the violence more barbaric than on the island of Borneo, where Lloyd Parry chases down news of tribal fighting between the Dayaks, one of the island's indigenous tribes, and the Madurese, transplants from Java. Penetrating the jungle, he doesn't find fighting so much as slaughter, and worse. The Dayaks, rumored to possess black magic that renders them impervious to bullets, have massacred entire Madurese villages, dismembering their victims and eating them. In the town of Sambas, he finds Dayaks cooking human thighs over...
...mildly sneaky and start using untapped, closed-network downloading programs. By downloading OurTunes, a Java-based program that piggybacks off of iTunes, you can raid your neighbors’s music collections without Big Brother knowing. Yes, OurTunes is still totally illegal, but there’s only one other drawback: you only have access to the music on the files of people on your wireless network. Better hope your entryway isn’t into Yanni...
...multitasker and enjoy the odd shot of java, then Copenhagen may be the place for you. In the Danish capital's rapidly gentrifying N?rrebro area?where the city's caf? culture has long flourished?a wave of young entrepreneurs has started a new trend by opening "fusion caf?s." The term is not a reference to any cross-cultural cuisine on the menu. Instead, it designates a place where you can "fuse" your coffee drinking with some other activity, from shopping to getting your laundry done...
Sometimes, living by your principles is a difficult thing to do. Last month Pax World Funds, a socially responsible investing outfit, sold 375,000 shares of Starbucks, worth some $23.4 million, because the java chain started selling coffee liqueur with spirits firm Jim Beam--and Pax won't invest in companies that make liquor. "We were very reluctant to do this," says Anita Green, Pax's vice president for social research. "There's a lot we like about this company." In fact, Starbucks has been lauded--by Pax and others--for its progressive environmental policies, its commitment to sell Fair...