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There’s a reason why Comcast is reviled among consumers who are forced, via local monopoly laws, to use it.  The customer service sucks, for one, and the company is also run with the ruthlessness and petty vindictiveness of the average Central American banana republic.  How else can you explain why Comcast charged Netflix backend provider […]

The last interesting thing to come along in the alcoholic world was Four Loko.  Infamous because of all the people it hospitalized due to mixing caffeine and alcohol (and due to abuse by college students), Four Loko faced bans until Phusion Projects changed its recipe to be a more traditional malt liquor-type drink.  While that’s […]

Pablo Picasso was one of the most prolific artists of all time, putting out hundreds of works in a wide variety of styles.  He was also notoriously generous, giving paintings away to friends and family members, even after he became a world-renowned artist.  However, was the legendary artist so generous as to give several hundred […]

To listen to the story told by Zach Campbell, one of the 24 students and staff held hostage by an armed gunman at Marinette High School in Marinette, Wisconsin, their classmate’s snapping was unexpected.  After a film strip on Greek mythology, the armed gunman (whose name has not been released) pulled out a handgun, shot […]

When the most famous filmmaker on the planet calls you his mentor, that’s pretty high praise.  Mentor is the word used by one George Lucas to describe his relationship with Irvin Kershner, who taught Lucas at USC’s film school and who later went on to direct the best movie in the Star Wars universe, The […]

Last year, the price to buy the gifts from the classic Christmas carol “The 12 Days of Christmas” was over $87,000.  That’s quite a bit of money, but it was nearly $10,000 cheaper than this year.  This year’s Christmas Price Index compiled by PNC puts the price of “The 12 Days of Christmas” at a […]

In the evening hours, residents of three Georgia counties, Carroll, Douglas, and Haralson, were settling down to a relaxing post-Thanksgiving Friday.  Then, their night was shattered by a huge explosion.  The noise is easily explained away, but the cause remains to be determined.  When an airplane travels faster than the speed of sound, the resulting […]

Every two years, England and Australia play one of the oldest and most prestigious cricket matches in a series that has become known as The Ashes.  Given Australia’s love of micro-blogging sporting events, it’s not a stretch to believe that hundreds or thousands of cricket fans are tweeting about The Ashes.  However, thanks to a […]

It’s a process that’s taken nearly four years and a staggering $65 million dollars in development costs.  However, all the work appears to have paid off for director Julie Taymor and company as the eagerly-anticipated debut of Spider-Man on Broadway happened last night in Manhattan.  Spiderman:  Turn Off The Dark is a massive spectacle, featuring […]

Without a doubt, Leslie Nielsen was one of the funniest men to ever find himself surrounded by craziness on a movie set.  It wasn’t because he could crack a joke, although he could.  It was because he could read even the craziest of lines, or get involved in the craziest of situations, without mugging.  He […]

It’s one of the biggest secrets of the animal kingdom.  There are five species of snakes in South and Southeast Asia (including the above paradise tree snake or Chrysopelea paradisi), or that are capable of flinging themselves down from the tops of trees to the forest below without shattering into a thousand pieces or taking […]

It was a 100-year-old house sitting at 18 Elm Street in Potsdam, New York.  Aside from its relative age, it’s pretty unremarkable except for one little factoid.  It inspired one of the longest-running and most-popular horror movie series in filmdom.  That house at 18 Elm was Wes Craven’s inspiration for A Nightmare on Elm Street.  Unfortunately, movie […]

Well, gone are the days of face time, punches in the face, face-up defense, getting facepalmed, and faceplanting after a particularly bad skateboarding move.  While all those things will still exist, they’ll probably have to be called something else after the US Patent And Trademark Office allowed Facebook a patent.  Facebook now owns the word […]