Tag: MISSOURI

With mid-term election season fast approaching, members of Congress are scrambling to reach out to their constituencies, plaster their campaign slogans across TV sets, and hug as many babies as possible before November. And, as you'd expect, social networking is playing a central role in many a campaign -- even those run by the eldest of lawmakers. Missouri Democratic Representative Ike ...

Starting this fall, The University of Missouri will be requiring all journalism majors to own an iPod Touch or iPhone. The idea is that, by making these devices mandatory and posting class lectures and other course materials online, students will absorb the information better. The flimsy pretext for this claim? According to Fox News, Associate Dean Brian S. Brooks told the Missourian, "there's ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/DTV_Switch_Doesn_t_Kill_TVs_Drunk_Septuagenarians_w_Guns_Do'; The elderly have been slightly behind in picking up on the DTV transition, so news of a frustrated 70-year old Missouri man doesn't surprise us too much. That the combination of losing his cable and being unable to get a DTV converter working drove him to shoot his TV and cause a short standoff ...