It’s almost a traditional thing now, the Tom Cruise dead rumors seem to come up about two or three times a year, more often when he is doing something nutty. Recent stories have peopel from inside his camp reporting on his weeks of trying to use his Scientology powers to dominate door knobs [...]
I have been a lifelong racing fan, I can remember watching the highlights of NASCAR races on Wide World of Sports long before it became an every week, 12 hours per day extravaganza that is it today. In the last few years I have been less and less enamored with the product, and thought [...]
Well, this is certainly one for the “should have been obvious” file. South African “female” running star Caster Semenya has apparently tested as a Hermaphrodite, which is to say that she really isn’t a she, but more of a both. Accord to the report in The Sun (UK), the runner has no internal [...]
Welcome to the third part of my look at the world of “FREE!” as proposed and pushed by a few pundits and online bloggers as the future of stuff. I am particularly focused on Chris Anderson’s new book “FREE!”, because it is leading the charge of misinformation, similar to his book The Long Tail. [...]
If you believe the buzz, if you are foolish enough to fall for the gurus, then you probably think that “FREE!” is the next best thing in marketing. As I mentioned last time out, Chris Anderson of Wired is coming out with a new book about “FREE!”, which oddly has been very slow to [...]
A few years ago, Chris Anderson, the editor in chief of Wired Magazine wrote a book called “The Long Tail”. In a nutshell, Anderson’s observations were based mostly around the book, video, and music business. With companies such as Amazon being able to stock a significantly larger collection of books than your local [...]
An interesting report on the March viewership numbers from Nielsen Media Research. shows the CNN is slipping to third amoungst cable news viewship in prime time. “Through Wednesday, Fox was averaging 2.73 million prime-time viewers in March. MSNBC had 1.16 million and CNN had 1.14 million. The March ratings period ends Friday, and it’s [...]
More and more calls are coming to shut down the Google Streetview service of UK locations, after serious privacy concerns have been raised and many complaints have been registered.
European privacy laws are very strict, as are UK laws in regards to things like security cams. Citizens can even have the windows of their houses [...]
The weird and wonderful life of Hollywood movie star and troubled soul Lindsay Lohan has taken a few more amusing twists. First her on again, off again lesbian romance with DJ Samantha Ronson has been the subject of much speculation, with apparently some pretty spectacular yelling matches and other odd things. It’s also [...]
Okay, this story is just a little weird, but it almost tracks. It also digs down deep into the questions of liability and responsibility for online ad services such as Craigslist.
Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart has sued Craigslist in federal court, trying to get the Erotic Services section shut down, as well as to [...]
What do you do when you are a dictator (elected one, but a dictator none the less) trying to convert your country into a socialist paradise, while facing massive declines in your countries only real export, oil? For most of us, it would be a puzzle too difficult to answer, but not for Hugo [...]
Whenever someone asks me how terrorists can manage to stay alive and keep planning attacks, I just point them at North Korea. It isn’t that I think that the dear leader Kim Jong-Il is a terrorists, at least not in the normal term. Rather, that is the world cannot find a way to [...]
You can file this one in the “stupid idiot protester” bin. British Business Secretary Lord Mandelson was hit with a huge cup full of green custard by a protester from the group Plane Stupid. The group is protesting climate change caused by airplanes, particularly at London’s Heathrow airport. To their credit, [...]
About 9 years late, or so it seems, certain Zune music and video players have been affected by a date issue which leaves the players locked out and unable to work.
It seems that the device has a problem handling leap years, and gets a bit confused. The fix is to let the [...]
The internet is an amazing place in part because it most easily reveals what people really want. Example being that the vast majority of people will say that they have no interest in adult material, but more than 50% of all web surfers have searched for something related. Following up on this [...]
