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Nintendo did it first.  With their revolutionary motion-controlled Wii console, the big N managed to secure a spot at the top of this generation of video games despite not playing in HD, not being powerful, and not coming with next-generation Blu Ray technology built in.  They had a gimmick, they made it work, and most […]

Brittney Horstman was stopping off at the Miami Federal Detention Center as part of her job duty.  At the time, she was an employee of the Federal Public Defender’s Office in Dade County, Florida, so she was going to visit one of her clients, until the guards stopped her for setting off the metal detector.  […]

One of the world’s best-known comic strip characters is ended her run in the funny pages yesterday.  June 13, 2010, was the date on the final panel of Little Orphan Annie comic strips, according to distributor Tribune Media Services.  The strip, which had been in papers continuously for nearly 86 years, first appearing in strips […]

Now, rumors are rumors, and Rumors is the best Fleetwood Mac album, but the scuttlebutt is that T-Mobile is looking to do something just a little bit crazy in the next week.  Just four days before the launch of the iPhone G4, T-Mobile is supposed to be giving away all their phones with a new […]

In about 30 minutes, the 2010 edition of the FIFA World Cup will be kicking off in beautiful Johannesburg, South Africa.  The opening match, to be started at 10 AM Eastern time, will be the host country of South Africa squaring off against America’s heartland, Mexico.  Make sure you don’t miss a match by heading […]

Attention World Cup soccer players:  if you’re going to curse, you’re going to have to pick a different language other than English.  The Brazilian officials who are working Saturday’s first-round World Cup match between England and the United States are on to you, and are making efforts to get a crash-course in English profanity before […]

Stanton Friedman has a master’s degree in nuclear physics, and has spent most of his life working in the field of developing nuclear-powered fusion and fission rockets for exploration of deep space.  More importantly than that, this brilliant physicist is also one of the world’s foremost believers in UFOs and has gone so far as […]

When it was time for the yearly Congressional picnic, Illinois senator Dick Durbin knew of only one food that could properly represent the Midwestern values of his homeland of Chicago, and that was the hot dog.  Chicago is famous for a lot of things, from the Chicago Cubs to Chicago-style pizza to the Chicago Manual […]

In the summer of 2008, Tom Cruise was on the downside of his career.  He was a joke, thanks to his courtship of Katie Holmes, a crazy appearance on Oprah, and some controversial comments he made expressing his Scientology beliefs in a fairly aggressive manner towards The Today Show’s Matt Lauer.  Then Tropic Thunder happened.  Tom Cruise’s […]

The Appalachian Trail is one of the oldest and most important hiking routes in the United States.  It’s the route that settlers followed as they streamed west from the original 13 colonies, and provides the only walking route into my home state of Kentucky.  Daniel Boone walked the Appalachian Trail, and every year hundreds of […]

When it comes to corporate communicating, branding is key.  The most important thing you can do, from a marketing standpoint, is own your name, and own it well.  When you communicate with someone, you need to be as clear and consistent as possible, and when you mention your brand name, people need to immediately associate […]

When Michelle Eugenio was cleaning out her classroom at the Center School in Peabody, Massachusetts, she knew there was no telling what she’d find.  Maybe half a moldy sandwich or a book report about Stuart Little.  Little did she know she’d randomly discover a rare colonial-era document from 1792 in her fourth-grade classroom. She has no idea where […]

Lots of people run in the Relay For Life, a fundraising effort by the American Cancer Society, but few people go to the lengths that Todd Ragsdale did.  Ragsdale did 413 laps around the track at South Medford High School.  That’s an impressive 102 miles of running.  However, here’s where things get interesting:  Ragsdale’s epic […]

If you’re wanting to get the attention of a cougar, you’d better splash on a little cologne.  No, not those cougars… well, okay, THOSE cougars too, but I’m referring specifically to cougars as in wild animal cougars.  For some reason, pumas, jaguars, and other big jungle cats can’t resist the smell of Calvin Klein Obsession […]