Let me start out by saying I am not a Democrat (or a Republican for that matter). I don’t have a horse in the race, and I don’t care the outcome so much. I should also point out that while I am not a big supporter of Obama, I would say that he has done [...]
One of the amazing things about the internet is how fast news spreads. The other things that is amazing about the internet is just how slanted major media sources can be. Once again, Matt Drudge and his Drudge Report site lead the way with ignorance and hateful attacks. This is a site now solely dedicated [...]
A recent rash of celebrity sex scandals has made me wonder how all of this has come about. Is there more cheating going on in Hollywood, or has scandal become so fashionable that nobody tries to avoid it anymore? Actually, I think the real answer is money and the 15 minutes of fame. Tiger Woods’ [...]
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 and other [...]
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 it [...]
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 woman’s parts [...]
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. Chris [...]
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 come [...]
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 bookstore, example, [...]
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 doubtful [...]
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 a weird [...]
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 Chavez. [...]
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 get dispose [...]
