Apple's latest retail store opened this week in Boston. It's the biggest one yet and one of my friends wanted to make the Windows/Apple move so we went down and had lunch then got her a new MacBook. The outside of the store is pretty similar to the others, but I brought the Nikon and took some...

This is pretty damned cool

I think so and I view it solely as an investment opportunity. The huge run-ups in the prices of wheat, corn and rice abroad have to be felt in the developed world at some point. Why put money into a money market account or CD at 3% when you can buy a twenty pound bag of rice whose price will...