X-mas is ruined. Woohoo!

In Starbucks this morning — the one at King and Weber. I’m drinking a tall Americano. I was going to...

WOW Surpasses Five Million Customers

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today announced that World of Warcraft?, its massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), has surpassed five million...

Will woolly mammoths live again?

Scientists have sequenced part of the genome of a woolly mammoth that died 28,000 years ago, a discovery that raises...

Lovecraft: Credentials are a tricky thing

Lovecraft Story Translates to Acclaimed First Film. Did I go to film school? No, I was actually finishing up a...

Last nail in the coffin for Mac Internet Explorer

Microsoft has announced plans to officially end support for and distribution of its Internet Explorer Web browser for Mac OS....

Sol the hobo clown actor dies at 76

(This guy taught me how to speak French …) Actor Marc Favreau, who gained fame in Quebec playing Sol the...

How Pictures Become Urban Legends

Just updated a posting on one of my entries. A couple of years ago, this photographer, Mike Hollingshead, a storm...

Weird Close-Talking Jesus

This is great! Apparently it’s a spoof of this serious Jesus artist. I like the joke captions better. Weird Close-Talking...

The Truth Is in There: Susan Clancy on recovered memories

In the late 1990s, as a twenty-year rash of high-profile sex abuse cases was winding down, Harvard Ph.D. student Susan...

Canadian Plots to Overthrow U.S.

In October, residents of NYC reported smelling an odor throughout Manhattan that resembled that of maple syrup. No explanation for...