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It's said that Google is experimenting with Google Glass and prescription lenses. To cater to those who need eyesight correction but don't want to either wear contacts or to cram the Google Glass frames on over their regular spectacles. Which sounds exceedingly sensible to me I must say. However, this then brings its own problems, at least over here in Europe it will. For over here, at least in most countries, you either can't sell prescription glasses online or face strict restrictions upon who may do so. And Google Glass is going to be much too expensive to want to have pairs in each and every opticians so that the opticians can sell them: You had to look closely on the Google I/O show floor, but a few Google employees were wearing Glass prototypes with actual prescription glasses attached. Designed in-house at Google, they actually look good: crisp modern lines, but not exactly for the Ray-Ban set. Mark Shandy, seen above, was kind enough to show them off and discuss how they felt so far.

Keeping you in the loop on some of the doings around Apple this past week.

When baseball players haggle with teams over contracts, it is often described as "millionaires fighting with billionaires." But in reality, there are surprisingly few billionaire owners in baseball. When Forbes.com recently released the 2013 Billionaires List, 1,426 names were included and only eight of those billionaires have a significant stake in a major league baseball team.#8 John Henry, Boston Red Sox — Net Worth: $1.5 Billion Age: 63 Source of income: Wall Street trader Overall rank on the Forbes Billionaires List: 974 #7 Ray Davis, Texas Rangers — Net Worth: $1.6 Billion Age: 71 Source of income: Gas pipelines Overall rank on the Forbes Billionaires List: 931 #6 Hiroshi Yamauchi, Seattle Mariners — Net Worth: $1.8 Billion Age: 85 Source of income: Nintendo Overall rank on the Forbes Billionaires List: 831 See the rest of the story at Business Insider Please follow Sports Page on Twitter and Facebook.    

I have been so caught up in the problems of the IRS Cincinnati gang that couldn't sort straight and breaking developments in the area of creation science, that I almost missed an important proposal.  According to Public Policy Polling 27% of Americans think that hipsters should be subject to a special tax because they are so annoying.  Frankly, I am a little skeptical about the poll.  I'm not certain that all that many Americans have a really clear idea as to what a hipster is or encounter enough hipsters to be annoyed by them.  According to the Urban Dictionary Hipsters are a subculture of men and women typically in their 20's and 30's that value independent thinking, counter-culture, progressive politics, an appreciation of art and indie-rock, creativity, intelligence, and witty banter. The greatest concentrations of hipsters can be found living in the Williamsburg, Wicker Park, and Mission District neighborhoods of major cosmopolitan centers such as New York, Chicago, and San Francisco respectively.  Although "hipsterism" is really a state of mind,it is also often intertwined with distinct fashion sensibilities. Hipsters reject the culturally-ignorant attitudes of mainstream consumers, and are often be seen wearing vintage and thrift store inspired fashions, tight-fitting jeans, old-school sneakers, and sometimes thick rimmed glasses. Straight To The Source

The company breaks down language barriers a billion times a day, it reveals at Google I/O. On the to-do list: real-time conversation translation. [Read more]