Athletics background helps Thomas in retail world (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
For Nancy Thomas, tackling the rough-and-tumble world of retail is much easier after growing up in a house full of hockey-playing brothers on New Yorkâ?™s Long Island. Thomas, 51, is president and CEO of the local Retail Merchants Association.

The Joy of Linux Myth Debunking (LinuxInsider.com)
Debunking long-held myths is always a gratifying exercise, but never is that more true than when said myths have done our favorite operating system harm. It was with great glee, then, that Linux Girl came across not one but two myth-debunking convers

Former Flint library director starts new job as head of the Detroit Public Library (The Flint Journal)
DETROIT, Michigan -- Jo Anne Mondowney, former director of the Flint Public Library, was set to start her new job today at the helm of the largest public library in the state. Mondowneys new appointment to lead the Detroit Public...

Google introduces Social Search (Geek.com)
Google usually does a pretty good job of selling their latest products: from Scott McCloudâ?™s enthusiastic but ultimately somewhat patronizing comic expounding upon Chromeâ?™s benefits, to their lengthy (frankly, too lengthy) Google Wave

Drexel University begins search for new president (WFMJ Youngstown)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Drexel University is beginning a national search for its 11th president. The private university in Philadelphia is looking to fill the job held by Constantine Papadakis, who died earlier this year of complications from lung cancer