Loser of Online Game Suspect in Killing

He lost a violent cyberwar game known as Counterstrike and then shot the victor.
Police now think that losing the game and being ridiculed about it triggered the Coquitlam Internet cafe shooting Jan. 18 that cost 17-year-old Christian Kwee his life.

Pizza and Laputa

Eating mushroom pizza tonight. I chopped up a portabello and some white mushrooms, and sauteed them in olive oil. I...

Skeptic Pitied

Craig Schaffner, 46, a Fayetteville-area computer consultant, has earned the pity of friends and acquaintances for his tragic reluctance to embrace the unverifiable, sources reported Monday.

$75 burger? There’s the beef

Would you spend $75 on a hamburger?
No? Then you obviously don't live in Manhattan, because that's the latest craze sweeping this competitive metropolis.

Big Plants and Blog Things

Personally, I think I’m in a journalistic lull, here. I was working a bit on my site (fixed up the...

Who owns the media?

Ever wanted to know who owns the different media corporations around the world? Consult this handy little chart for the latest information on media ownership.

Spam the spammer

Got spam today, from a spam filtering company. Weird. Ironically, it somehow slipped past all the spam filtering software we...

Laptop working again

HUZZAH! My laptop is *not* broken, as I thought it was! I checked with a Toshiba dealer to see how...

Pictures again!

Figured I should start taking more pictures, like I did when I first bought my webcam. So here’s the latest...

My New Cell Phone

I think I finally found the phone I'm going to marry:
The large, bright screen of the Kyocera 7135 smartphone displays over 65,000 different colors. Download and view pictures and videos, play games, color code all those spreadsheets - things are just more exciting in color. What's more, you can do it all while listening to your favorite tunes with the onboard MP3 player.
The sleek, lightweight clamshell design of the Kyocera 7135 smartphone gives you brain without all the brawn. Plus it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out how to take advantage of all its great features.
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And it's lemon scented, too.