It’s the Super Bowl for the thesaurus set. Every year, the nation’s best and brightest young spellers get together to see just who the top canine is when it comes to their ability to guess and properly spell the most difficult words in the English language (most of which are borrowed from other languages). However, […]
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Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Is Buying The LA Clippers
Posted 5/30/2014 8:56 am by Ron HoganHe’s probably the most important man in the history of Microsoft not named Bill Gates. The company’s first non-Gates CEO, Steve Ballmer was the man behind the Microsoft Surface and one of the people fighting to bring the company into the 21st Century. He made his mark with the company, then stepped aside for the […]
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The World Is Getting Fatter Every Day
Posted 5/29/2014 2:07 pm by Ron HoganAmerica is a very obese country, but it seems that the rest of the world is rapidly catching up to, and even surpassing, the United States of Fatmerica. Our obesity rate has tripled in recent years, and it seems that the trend is showing no signs of reversal on the way to a fatter America […]
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Netflix Casts Its Daredevil for “Daredevil”
Posted 5/28/2014 10:14 am by Ron HoganIt was a big-screen success, but the original Daredevil film starring Ben Affleck as “the Man Without Fear,” Matt Murdoch, has taken something of a beating in recent years, probably due to the failure of the Elektra film, fallout from Bennifer, and various other assorted reasons mostly pointing the blame to Ben Affleck. But Daredevil […]
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Doppelganger Drum Battle: Chili Pepper Chad Smith And Will Ferrell
Posted 5/23/2014 3:47 pm by Ron HoganWhen it comes to celebrity look-alikes, there are close companions, and then there is Will Ferrell and drummer Chad Smith from the Red Hot Chili Peppers. They look almost exactly alike, and that similarity has not been ignored by either man. Specifically, Will Ferrell has appeared on late night talk shows discussing, among other things, […]
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Facebook Wants To Listen To Your Music
Posted 5/22/2014 2:49 pm by Ron HoganSo you’re watching television or listening to some music, and you want to let everyone know that you’re checking out something awesome. Well, instead of having to actually type words or anything, Facebook is going to take actual work out of it and do the listening for you. Facebook’s newest app will listen to your […]
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Cleveland Wins Another NBA Draft Lottery
Posted 5/21/2014 8:43 am by Ron HoganThe Cleveland Cavaliers have been a very unlucky franchise. After LeBron James abandoned his home-state team for the sunnier climate of Miami, everything’s gone downhill for the Cavs. They’ve had terrible coaches, bad players, a general lack of basketball prowess, some terrible decision-making from the front office… whatever could go wrong has gone wrong for […]
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Second “Guardians Of The Galaxy” Trailer Features More Rocket and Groot
Posted 5/20/2014 8:33 am by Ron HoganMarvel has done an absolutely brilliant job of making big, accessible movies that are true to the spirit of comic books, that are very entertaining, and that end up making hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office, if not billions of dollars. From the techno-babble of Iron Man to the paranoia thriller of […]
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Google Honors The Rubik’s Cube
Posted 5/19/2014 10:28 am by Ron HoganJust when you thought it was safe to click over to Google’s homepage, think again. Once again, the world’s most popular search engine has decided to steal your time away from you, this time using one of the all-time classic brain-teasers. Since 1974, the Rubik’s cube has astounded and amazed legions of people, with an […]
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Microsoft Announces Halo 5 Debut Date
Posted 5/16/2014 6:39 pm by Ron HoganOnce upon a time, the Halo series of video games was the biggest and best series since the brothers Mario stomped their way across the Mushroom Kingdom. Halo: Reach was one of the biggest hits in video game history (making $200 million in a single day!) before being supplanted by Call of Duty: Ghosts. More […]
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Hero Cat Saves Boy From Dog Attack
Posted 5/15/2014 1:51 pm by Ron HoganWhen you think of cats, you probably don’t think of bravery, loyalty, and defending loved ones at all cost. You probably think of lounging around in the sun or sleeping in improbable places. Well, one feisty feline proved that this wasn’t true by putting herself on the line to save her family. When a dog […]
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Justin Bieber Accused Of Attempted Robbery
Posted 5/14/2014 3:21 pm by Ron HoganJustin Bieber is apparently growing up to be a little violent punk. Allegedly, of course. He’s had run-ins with limo drivers, and now a woman in Los Angeles is accusing the pint-sized Canadian pop star of trying to steal her cell phone and she’s getting the police involved. During an outing at some batting cages […]
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AT&T Trying To Buy DirecTV
Posted 5/13/2014 8:14 am by Ron HoganThe trend for the telecommunications industry isn’t growth, it’s contraction. Specifically, companies are always looking to get with other companies and join forces, and no company is doing this quite as aggressively as AT&T. The telephone giant has already tried to buy T-Mobile only to be rebuffed by the federal government. Now they’re looking to […]
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Dr. Dre: The First Rap Billionaire
Posted 5/09/2014 8:47 pm by Ron HoganDr. Dre isn’t a real doctor, but he’s really rich. The rapper turned producer turned mogul is one of the wealthiest artists in the hip hop game, and he’s about to claim the ultimate bit of bragging rights over fellow moneyed rappers Jay Z and Sean Combs. Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine are the majority […]
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Giant Naked Virgin Mary Causes Predictable Controversy
Posted 5/08/2014 10:45 am by Ron HoganThe Virgin Mary is one of the most iconic ideas in the world of art. A mother’s love for her child, be it adult or divine infant, was one of the most inspiring images in the art world and it has inspired literally thousands of paintings, drawings, sculptures, statues, and stains on furniture. However, one […]
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Coca-Cola To Change Drink Recipe
Posted 5/06/2014 8:34 pm by Ron HoganWith its closely-guarded secret recipe, you’d think that Coca-Cola’s products were inviolate. The same ingredients in Coke are the same ingredients Coke has always used, and that’s that. Well, that’s definitely not the case. Coca-Cola has no problems tinkering with its recipe to save money, like switching from sugar to corn syrup, and removing potentially […]
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Michael Jackson’s Newest Single
Posted 5/02/2014 9:15 am by Ron HoganNothing boosts the career of an artist like an untimely death. After all, Michael Jackson died a sideshow oddity who planned a comeback concert series to raise some much-needed cash, and he was resurrected with the richest record deal of all time. He’s already got one posthumous album under his ghost belt, and now another […]
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The Simpsons Get The Lego Treatment
Posted 5/01/2014 2:44 pm by Ron HoganWhen you’re one of the longest-running shows in television history, there’s not many places where you can go. After a certain time, all the plots have been exhausted and all the fun trips have been taken, but those rules really don’t apply to animated television. If you want to go to space, you go to […]
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