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...Anyone can buy ads by going to the MyAds site and signing up. A relatively easy tool allows you to create a banner ad - you can upload your own image, graphic or corporate logo, and type your message directly into it. MySpace then allows you to "HyperTarget" (MySpace's term) your ad at a market based on the many ways the social network's 76 million active users define themselves. Age, gender, zip code, hobbies, musical preference, even the kinds of video games people like are among the data MySpace captures from users and shares with advertisers. Like Google, rates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MySpace to Businesses: Kiss MyAds | 10/13/2008 | See Source »

...because they fear that he'll raise their taxes. Sarah Roy, an Obama supporter who owns a scrapbooking store in Warrensburg, told me that her husband is in the military; he plans to vote against Obama because McCain is a fellow warrior. In other words, if Obama - a first-term Senator with an exotic name, liberal politics and a thin résumé - doesn't win, it will be for a lot of the same reasons other Democrats have lost, including the fact that Americans have leaned toward Republican Presidents for nearly 60 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For White Working Class, Obama Rises on Empty Wallets | 10/12/2008 | See Source »

...difficult to argue against hate-crimes laws because it seems like you're arguing for hate. But the term "hate crimes" didn't come into wide use until the early 1980s. The original 1968 law was part of its decade's civil rights legislation, but at the time, the law was not considered to be a law against "hate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viewpoint: What's Wrong with the Hate-Crimes Bill | 10/11/2008 | See Source »

...rear, a squirt of water in the front, a squirt of water that pulses or a gentler stream for tough days. You can adjust pressure and direction from the comfort of your seat. Then there's a down under blow drier. No wonder the manufacturers prefer the term "Integrated Personal Cleansing System" to toilet. Or latrine. Or, you know, thunderbox...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just What the Economy Needs: A $5,000 Toilet | 10/10/2008 | See Source »

...first peace mediation job was as U.N. envoy to Namibia, where guerrillas were fighting the apartheid government of South Africa. He spent 20 years abroad as a diplomat for Finland and the U.N. before contesting and winning the presidential election in 1994, serving one term before returning to mediation work full time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Finnish Diplomat | 10/10/2008 | See Source »

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