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It’s been entirely too long since the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored the hardest-working people in show business.  I’m not talking about producers or actors or directors or writers or even special effects guys, I’m talking about the people who tame the tresses of the world’s favorite stars.  That’s right, hair stylists […]

Rupert Murdoch’s billion dollar empire, News Corp, started with a single Australian newspaper.  From there, the controversial Murdoch has built a powerhouse in the entertainment world, with television networks and newspapers under a single, proud banner.  Well, that’s about to change.  The News Corp board has approved a company split, dividing the company into an […]

It’s tablet computer season, apparently.  Ever since the Apple iPad and Amazon Kindle Fire hit the scene and stirred up America’s love for portable computing devices, the tablet arena has gotten hot and heavy.  A few days ago, Microsoft announced their first branded computer, the Microsoft Surface 7-inch tablet computer.  Now, Google is getting into […]

The Bowl Championship Series has done a great job of putting the top two teams into a championship game, but even with that, there were always complaints.  If three teams went undefeated during the regular season, or four teams had a single loss, the outcry from the denied teams was always swift and obnoxious.  Well, […]

Alex Trebek, like Lonesome George, is the last of a breed.  Alex Trebek is a game show host, and they don’t make those anymore.  Aside from hard-partying Pat Sajak, Trebek is the last game show host of note still working, which is why he’s one of the television world’s great treasures.  Alex Trebek suffered a […]

Remember when the United States Secretary of Commerce John Bryson had back-to-back wrecks and everyone kind of assumed he’d gotten away with drunk driving?  Well, that’s not the case; unfortunately for Bryson, his problems are medical in nature.  John Bryson has stepped down as US Secretary of Commerce after being diagnosed with a seizure disorder […]

When LeBron James made The Decision, he promised titles.  Not Finals appearances like last year’s beating by the Dallas Mavericks, but titles plural, and titles in multiple seasons.  The journey to dominance begins with an initial NBA Championship.  Last night, the Miami Heat coasted to an easy 121-106 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder.  More […]

For years, college football did not crown a national champion on the field.  Sure, they had dozens of bowl games, and there would be a national champion every year, but it wasn’t decided by having the two best teams play.  Newspaper reporters and coaches voted, and their pick for the best team got the national […]

New York City has been a trailblazer in the health wars.  First, no soda with your food stamps.  Then, Mayor Michael Bloomberg went after giant sodas with an attempted ban on supersized drinks.  That war is spreading.  Now, the Boston suburb of Cambridge, Massachusetts, is looking to get in on the soda ban game.  Cambridge mayor Henrietta […]

Microsoft has been the leading name in the computer industry for decades, and that dominance is due to how they’ve traditionally worked.  While Apple has built a tiny walled garden with high entrance fees via vertical integration, Microsoft has licensed its Windows operating system to anyone who might be interested.  Call it dominance via ubiquity. […]

Two sad years ago, China unveiled the world’s fastest supercomputer, knocking the US from the top spot.  Rather than reclaiming cupercomputing glory, IBM was content to play Jeopardy! against humans with their supercomputers while Fujitsu bested the Chinese at the supercomputer game.  Well, that’s over again.  IBM has unveiled the world’s fastest supercomputer, Sequoia, at […]

Once upon a time, it was one of the most feared diseases in the world.  The Black Death was one of the greatest plagues to sweep through Europe in human history, and it killed 25 million people back in a time when 25 million people was like a billion people today.  However, these days, people […]

During his life, R. Allen Stanford was a master of the Ponzi scheme on the same level as a Bernie Madoff.  From his base in Antigua, Allen Stanford transformed himself into a billionaire, mostly on other people’s money.  He had set up a $7 billion dollar investment scam, but now his empire has toppled.  Former […]

It has been clear for awhile that .com has been running out of domain space, and non-Latin domain names have been helpful, but not perfect.  As competition increases and the price for domain names goes up, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has decided to lighten the load and release more generic […]