Remember the Tupac hologram? Of course you do; it’s been a huge story since it appeared at Coachella, and now it seems as though every dead musician wants in on the hologram game. Fortunately, if your life rights people have money, Digital Domain Media Group (DDMG) has the technology to bring you back to life. So, stop […]
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Scott Walker Survives Wisconsin Recall Vote
Posted 6/06/2012 7:15 am by Ron HoganPolitics can be a messy business. Just ask Wisconsin governor Scott Walker, who has been in hot water since he somehow became the Republican governor of a mostly-Democratic state with a strong union presence. Walker has made enemies in his state’s elite, which explains why he’s been constantly the target of vicious protests and even […]
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NASCAR Suspends Kurt Busch For Verbal Abuse
Posted 6/05/2012 7:00 am by Ron HoganLast month at Darlington, Kurt Busch found himself in a familiar position. He was having trouble with his underfunded new team, Phoenix Racing, and his fuse was already short. When he got back to pit row, he drove recklessly and got into an altercation with Ryan Newman’s pit crew. That earned him a month of […]
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Houston Picks Carlos Correa To Top the MLB Draft
Posted 6/05/2012 6:30 am by Ron HoganThe US Commonwealth of Puerto Rico has a long, rich baseball tradition, with players like Roberto Clemente, Ivan Rodriguez, Carlos Beltran, Carlos Delgado, Juan Gonzalez, and Bernie Williams hailing from the island. All of those names, most of which are Hall of Famers or should be, have one thing in common. None of them were […]
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The 2012 MTV Movie Awards In A Nutshell
Posted 6/04/2012 7:30 am by Ron HoganLast night, Russell Brand played host to a filled auditorium of Hollywood’s brightest young stars in Los Angeles. The event wasn’t Brand’s search for his next pop-star wife, but an awards ceremony. The 2012 MTV Movie Awards, which promised to include the inevitable triple franchise show-down between Twilight, Harry Potter, and The Hunger Games. In […]
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Tiger Woods Wins The Memorial, Ties Jack Nicklaus For Second Most Wins All Time
Posted 6/04/2012 7:00 am by Ron HoganTo call Tiger Woods’ recent performances since his injuries and his marital problems a slump is to redefine slump from a temporary ailment to a seemingly permanent setback. However, with one brilliant chip on the 16th hole of Muirfield Village in Dublin, Ohio, Woods’ fortunes seem to have changed. That chip turned a possible bogey […]
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Game Show Legend Richard Dawson Dead At 79
Posted 6/04/2012 6:30 am by Ron HoganTo say that Richard Dawson is a legend among game show hosts is to put it mildly. As the host of Family Feud, he became famous for multiple reasons, not the last of which was his hair. He made a point to hug, kiss, or otherwise touch every female guest on the program, and some […]
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The iPhone Heading To Cricket, Boost Mobile Next?
Posted 6/01/2012 7:00 am by Ron HoganRemember back when the iPhone was an elite device for unhappy AT&T users only? That has certainly changed in a hurry. First the iPhone hit Verizon Wireless; after that, the iPhone went to Sprint. Now, you don’t even have to have a wireless carrier to have an iPhone anymore. Apple’s vaunted iPhone 4S is headed […]
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New York Mayor Wants To Ban Large Sodas
Posted 6/01/2012 6:45 am by Ron HoganWhen you think of nanny state food laws, you probably think of California. After all, San Francisco tried to ban the Happy Meal, so why wouldn’t Cali be the leader in trans-fats bans, sugar regulation, and other food laws designed to protect you from your own choices. Well, New York City is rapidly catching up […]
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Kathy Lee Grills Martin Short About His Dead Wife
Posted 5/31/2012 7:00 am by Ron HoganHow Kathy Lee Gifford ended up as the host of her own hour of The Today Show is kind of a mystery, but I have to admit that checking in on Kathy Lee and co-host Hoda Kotb is kind of like checking in with a daily train wreck starring America’s favorite drunk aunt. It’s not a good […]
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New Orleans Wins The Anthony Davis Prize, NBA Draft Lottery
Posted 5/31/2012 6:30 am by Ron HoganOne of the NBA’s most woeful franchises is going to get a centerpiece next season. The New Orleans Hornets, who traded Chris Paul to the LA Clippers earlier this season after a voided trade to LA’s other franchise, have been in terrible shape for years–financially and play-wise. Well, that might change beginning next season, because […]
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Terrell Owens Gets Booted From The Indoor Football League
Posted 5/30/2012 8:00 am by Ron HoganHow should you feel about a Hall of Fame player whose personal problems derailed his career in spite of his physical skills? That’s the question of the day concerning one Terrell Owens, better known as T.O. Terrell Owens, a sure-fire NFL Hall of Famer, was cut by the Allen Wranglers of the Indoor Football League; […]
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iPhone 5 Images Leaked
Posted 5/30/2012 7:30 am by Ron HoganApple just can’t keep its devices a secret. The iPhone 4G was leaked early. The MacBook was leaked early. Apple employees lose phones in bars all the time. There’s just no real way to keep anything secret. In that spirit, who wants to see what the upcoming iPhone looks like? Leaked images of the iPhone […]
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Cyberwarfare Heats Up With Flame
Posted 5/30/2012 7:00 am by Ron HoganWhen it comes to computer security, no virus is quite as famous as Stuxnet. Stuxnet is a computer worm long believed to be a cyberwarfare strike against Iranian nuclear capabilities, is definitely a troublesome computer infection, but it’s got nothing on a newly-discovered computer infection believed to be an act of warfare. On Monday, cyber […]
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Folk Music Legend Doc Watson Dead At 89
Posted 5/30/2012 6:30 am by Ron HoganThis has not been a good year for musical legends. Charley Louvin is dead; Glen Campbell is retiring due to Alzheimer’s disease; Whitney Houston is dead; even disco is dead, thanks to the deaths of Donna Summer and Robin Gibb. Joining those ranks is the incredible folk music icon whose pick has been called running […]
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Prepare For Manhattanhenge Tonight
Posted 5/30/2012 6:00 am by Ron HoganEvery year, residents of New York’s most populated borough are treated to a special sight. Due to the city’s grid alignment, the setting sun falls perfectly between the skyscrapers of the city, creating one of the most unusual views that can be captured in Manhattan. The phenomenon echoes that of Stonehenge, says astronomer Neil deGrasse […]
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Roger Federer Notches Record 223rd Major Match Win
Posted 5/29/2012 7:30 am by Ron HoganNo matter what happens, Roger Federer keeps showing up and keeps winning. He’s 30 years old, practically ancient in tennis terms, and has been surpassed by Rafa Nadal and Novak Djokovic, but Roger Federer continues to rack up wins at Grand Slam tournaments. For example, at the French Open yesterday, Roger Federer blasted German Tobias […]
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Facebook Recruiting iPhone Developers For Smart Phone
Posted 5/29/2012 7:00 am by Ron HoganOne of the big fears of Facebook founder and billion-dollar man Mark Zuckerberg is irrelevance. So much of Facebook’s user base is tied into mobile phone providers, yet Zuck doesn’t want Facebook to become just another social tile on the average smartphone dock. That’s why Facebook has tried to get into the smartphone game, and has […]
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Boxer Paul Williams Paralyzed By Motorcycle Accident
Posted 5/29/2012 6:30 am by Ron HoganMemorial Day traffic is a terrible thing, and no one knows that more than professional boxer Paul Williams. One of the most unusual righters in the sport, considering he’s 6’2 and fights at welterweight (147 pounds), Williams has long been a boxing sensation and has struggled routinely to get matchups during his career. Well, it […]
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Dario Franchitti Claims Indianapolis 500
Posted 5/28/2012 8:00 am by Ron HoganThe best thing you can say about the Indianapolis 500 is that it was very hot. The day was a staggering 91, one degree short of the record heat from 1937. Aside from that, it was perfectly sedate, which is great after two-time champion Dan Wheldon died in a massive, terrifying accident at Las Vegas […]
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Naked Man Shot While Eating Someone’s Face
Posted 5/28/2012 7:30 am by Ron HoganBoston police have said they would tell people about a zombie outbreak, and there are other places with zombie warning signs, but these places aren’t Miami, Florida. Florida is America’s weirdness capital, and Miami is Florida’s weirdness capital, so it goes without saying that some news that leaks out of that state can be disturbing. […]
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New Orleans’ Times-Picayune To Drop To 3 Issues A Week
Posted 5/25/2012 7:00 am by Ron HoganIn the wake of Hurricane Katrina and the flooding that followed, the New Orleans Times-Picayune and NOLA.com did a wonderful job in updating the outside world about the conditions in their city, and have further kept going in bringing the city back together in the wake of the hurricane. Unfortunately, this is a “what have […]
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Couple Photobombed By Tornado
Posted 5/25/2012 6:45 am by Ron HoganIn Harper, Missouri, tornadoes are a way of life. The city is located within Tornado Alley, so the twister is not a foreign phenomenon. However, most people don’t invite tornadoes to their wedding. Caleb and Candra Pence are not most people. As you can clearly see, a massive twister is a special guest at their […]
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Blizzard’s Diablo III Is The Fastest-Selling Computer Game Ever
Posted 5/24/2012 7:30 am by Ron HoganJust when you thought the news couldn’t get any better for the combined monolith of Activision-Blizzard, they drop the long-awaited, much-wanted Diablo III. It was a very successful launch for Blizzard, improving on the history of the Diablo franchise. How successful was it? Blizzard estimates 4.7 million copies of Diablo III were active within the […]
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HP To Cut 27,000 Jobs
Posted 5/24/2012 7:00 am by Ron HoganHewlett-Packard is one of the world’s largest companies, and as such, they are not immune to mistakes. Given their current revolving door at CEO, it’s no wonder the company has been making some bad decisions. Paying too much money for Palm, killing the TouchPad, and generally just making mistakes left and right due to not […]
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Big Bang’s Jim Parsons Comes Out As Gay
Posted 5/24/2012 6:45 am by Ron HoganGolden Globes winner Jim Parsons, best known as Sheldon Cooper from the hit television sitcom The Big Bang Theory, has made a very public announcement. Or rather, he did it in a very subtle way. In a recent New York Times piece discussing his role in the Broadway version of Harvey, the writer references the […]
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Facebook IPO Facing Potential Legal Trouble
Posted 5/23/2012 8:00 am by Ron HoganFacebook’s IPO has been an incredible windfall for its founders, and a huge flop for investors. Since the massive IPO late last week, the stock price has collapsed. There are concerns over ad sales, revenues in general, and now, there are allegations of insider trading after people have alleged that Morgan Stanley warned favored investors […]
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Musical Google Doodle Honors Bob Moog
Posted 5/23/2012 7:30 am by Ron HoganI’m not going to pretend that I understand the thing that Bob Moog invented and perfected in the 1950’s and 60’s, but it is an awesome machine. Dr. Robert Moog, AKA Bob, passed away in 2005 but Google is honoring his legacy with an awesome musical Google Doodle that recreates the complexity and possibilities of […]
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The Great Gatsby Trailer Is… Great
Posted 5/23/2012 7:00 am by Ron HoganLeonardo DiCaprio and Baz Luhrmann are two crowd-pleasing forces when separate, but when you combine them you get star-making. Their 1996 team-up Romeo + Juliet made stars out of DiCaprio and Claire Danes, and since then both have gone on to some pretty big things. Well, they’re reuniting for a big budget, flashy version of […]
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Donald Driver, Super Bowl Winner And Dancing With The Stars Champion
Posted 5/23/2012 6:30 am by Ron HoganNever let it be said that football players aren’t competitive in everything they do. Consider Donald Driver, who won a Super Bowl last season before heading to the dance floor as part of the 14th cast of Dancing With The Stars. He came, he saw, and he blew everyone away. Donald Driver is Dancing With The […]
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