In an effort to curtail my disastrous gadget spending habits, I’ve decided to take a look at devices I’ve purchased with the stated intent of increasing my productivity, to see if intentions and...  Comment

I spent a year during college living abroad. There were four phones to which we had access and they were in a bomb shelter in the building’s basement. If we wanted to make a call we needed...  Comment

It's the morning after the big Chrome OS event where Google executives and engineers revealed a myriad of details about the company's first attempt at creating their own operating system. The...  Comment

The new terminal at Istanbul's Sabiha Gökçen Airport is the world's largest earthquake-safe building. You're looking at the over two million square feet of scaffolding that support it, all...  Comment

It's done! "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" just beat the opening day gross of "The Dark Knight." Wait, what? No, this is not a mistake; "New Moon" did indeed score an amazing $72.7 million...  Comment

Joe Francis was due in a Florida courtroom on Friday, but the attorney for the Girls Gone Wild founder handed the judge a doctor's note excusing his client from appearing! How convenient!...  Comment

Spike TV has announced the nominees for the 7th annual 2009 Video Game Awards or VGAs, which will broadcast live on December 12th at 8:00PM ET (Eastern Time - USA, tape-delayed for West Coast)....  Comment

Forget Robbie Williams. If Take That want an extra member, they should look no further than the wonderful Lily Allen. The two music giants - not literally because indoor concerts would be too...  Comment

Play-by-play man Ralph Lawler and analyst Mike Smith have been suspended for one game for calling Grizzlies center Hamed Haddadi an "EYE-ranian." The Iron Sheik would probably like to take these...  Comment

Latest development in the already long running Thierry Henry handball incident (or “la main de dieu” as it’s being called by some) is that Henry himself thinks a replay is a good idea: “The...  Comment

Your Saturday golf tour update: Lee Westwood is running the show at the Dubai World Championships, owning a two-shot lead after three rounds. He's also leading Rory McIlroy in the hunt for the...  Comment

Sweet sassy molassey was this an ugly fight. Flyers center Danny Briere makes it abundantly clear why he has only been credited with two fights during his career with yesterday's atrocious "brawl"...  Comment

Evan Joseph Prices are ’stratospheric’ at the waterside condos. Tom Clancy has given a bit of a boost to the battered condominium market – at least in Baltimore. The novelist this week paid...  Comment

My grandfather was born in Guayaquil Ecuador in 1906. He came to America in the 70’s and would tell me stories about his business in Ecuador exporting bananas to the United States. He loved...  Comment

Fascinating visualization of unemployment in the United States as it progresses over time, from January 2007 to Present. The animation is monthly by counties...  Comment

…at least not yet. On Sept 24th when the Google Blog announcement of Google Places was posted, there was no mention of Place Pages for Real Estate: “A Place Page is a webpage for every place in...  Comment

Corporate front groups and large business trade associations are funneling their resources into defeating health reform. Even though health reform will lower costs for small businesses and boost...  Comment

The suspense has lifted. Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) will announce on the Senate floor this afternoon that she will vote to debate health care legislation. When she does, she will join her...  Comment

History professor and Alaskan David Noon corrects Palin for repeating the myth of "Seward's Folly" - the purchase of Alaska in 1867 by Secretary of State William Seward. From Going Rogue: Critics...  1 Comment

Conservative Democrats are making it very clear that they'll switch their vote and kill the bill down the line if the public option doesn't get stripped out of it. "Let me be perfectly...  2 Comments

Premise: Close your eyes. (In your mind. Keep your eyes open to read this article, unless you know some other way.) Consider this: Got that? Open your brain-eyes. My question is… Do you...  Comment

The Daily Show's Jon Stewart welcomed former CNN anchor Lou Dobbs with a Mariachi band because... why not? Over a long interview, only portions of which aired, Stewart and Dobbs discussed the newsman's decision to quit on the air... or not q...  Comment

A big-eared bank raider nicknamed Shrek is behind bars today after being warned he is 'too ugly' to commit crime. Unfortunate David Holyoak, 33, has rather distinctive looks and his features make it easy for police to get his description an...  1 Comment

You’re just jealous that you can’t hide when Aunt Mabel comes to visit. but nuffing can save u frum her froot caek...  Comment

Early this morning two concerned citizens, Dea Goblirsch and Nick Martin, locked...  Comment

Next Thursday is, of course, Thanksgiving Day in the United States. While we celebrate the holiday with our families, along with turkey, stuffing and...  Comment

There are a million reasons these days why your boyfriend might be unusually stressed out and busy…new job, new school, new financial situation, etc. With the country’s financial situation the...  2 Comments

Florida’s never-ending tobacco litigation continued not to end this week. A woman in South Florida who smoked Benson & Hedges for 25 years sued Philip Morris and was awarded $300 million. Most of...  Comment

A little cheese with that whine, sir? CNN recently published an article titled 7 Reasons to Lose the Booze in Flight. Some of the points make a lot...  Comment

Fun: the best motivator for change. Recently, The Fun Theory, a group promoting behavioral and environmental change, turned an average subway staircase in Stockholm into a giant,...  1 Comment

Pictures of missing people have been hanging for years next to the gate to the fence surrounding Kosovo’s parliament. Some of them have been there for so long that the features of the faces can hardly be seen anymore - a good example of how slow and painful the process of discovering the fate of the missing is. Ten years after the end of the war here there are still more than 1,000 people from Kosovo in the list of missing persons kept by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). But, despite limited capacity and infrastructure, people at the department of forensic investigations in Pristina keep searching for the missing.  Comment

The ancient hymns brought tears to the eyes of Solomon Ayeli, as well as memories of his native Ethiopia which he left two decades ago for Israel a country he loves but where he often feels rejected. "There should be no differences between black Jews and white Jews," said Ayeli, 29, who was among 15,000 people who this week celebrated the Ethiopian-Jewish Sigd prostration festival in Jerusalem.  Comment