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Yahoo has made a whole lot of mistakes in recent years.  Since ousting founder Jerry Yang in 2008 as CEO, the company has had five bosses.  Their most recent CEO was fired over his inaccurate resume and false credentials.  They’ve lost so much of their market share to Google, have been the target of multiple […]

The launch of Google Chrome has really changed the web browser landscape.  Thanks in no small part to its great speed, Google Chrome has gone from nothing to being incredibly popular.  Just how popular?  Google Chrome has passed Internet Explorer to become the most-used browser in the world, according to StatCounter’s page views metric.  Google […]

Van Halen’s tour in support of their first new album with David Lee Roth in nearly 30 years, A Different Kind of Truth, has been really successful.  However, it hasn’t been without its problems.  Some of those problems have resurfaced, apparently, though the band isn’t talking about what’s going on.  After their June 26 show […]

When it comes to sun protection, humans can’t slather ourselves in mud to preserve our tender skin from the burning rays of the sun, so every year, the Environmental Working Group puts together a list of the safest possible sunscreens.  While the FDA has approved sunscreen additives like oxybenzone (since 1978) and retinal palmitate, the […]

Like him or not, the late Apple founder Steve Jobs had an interesting life.  He founded a major tech company, was kicked out by the board, then came back to save the company from failure in the ultimate redemption story.  Jobs changed the way we use computers, changed the way we listen to music, and […]

In the movie The Social Network, Sean Parker asks Facebook founder Eduardo Saverin a question:  “You don’t even know what the thing is yet.  How big it can get, how far it can go.  This is no time to take your chips down.  A million dollars isn’t cool, you know what’s cool?  A billion dollars.” […]

When you’re preparing to receive a billion-dollar windfall in the biggest IPO of all time, it’s a smart move to flee the United States.  Eduardo Saverin, who was Mark Zuckerberg’s friend and business partner at Harvard, owns about 4 percent of Facebook stock as a result of his many court battles with Zuckerberg.  That’s going […]

In 1978, Loretta Lynn brought actress Sissy Spacek onto the stage at the Grand Ole Opry and announced, to the world, that Spacek would be playing Loretta Lynn in an upcoming biographic film.  That movie, Coal Miner’s Daughter, won Spacek the best actress Oscar and helped turn Loretta Lynn into an icon far beyond her […]

When it comes to crimes against children, there’s nothing more shocking than when that crime allegation comes against a sports figure, especially one known for his charity work.  While his minutes have disappeared this season, Denver Nuggets basketball player Chris “Birdman” Andersen is very popular in the community for his colorful tattoos, high-flying blocks, and […]

The best way to sell something like a car or an airplane is to take people up, show them what it can do, and then sell them on the comforts and luxury of the plane.  That’s what Sukhoi was doing with their new Superjet-100, which was on the fourth stop of a six-nation Asian tour. […]

For years, punk musician Tom Gabel has harbored a secret.  Apparently, that secret has been gender dysphoria.  That’s when a man or woman feels like they should have been born as a member of a different gender, like the infamous pregnant man.  Against Me! lead singer Tom Gable is planning to become Laura Jane Grace. […]

Nevada is the first name you think of when you think of gambling.  Nevada is the home of Las Vegas, the world’s gambling mecca, and as such, it’s the state most associated with risk-taking and putting everything on the flip of a stack of cards.  Unsurprisingly, Nevada’s gambling goes past casino games and covers pretty […]

It’s not often that a show puts multiple iconic characters into the national consciousness, but The Andy Griffith Show was no ordinary show.  When secondary character Gomer Pyle proved to be so popular he got his own spin-off program, Gomer’s cousin Goober Pyle stepped right into the role of comic relief in Mayberry, filling in […]

Ever since NASA bombed the moon in 2009, the moon has been looking to get its revenge.  You see, we started a war with the moon, but we didn’t finish it.  The moon will not be tamed so easily.  Tonight, Saturday May 5, the moon will return stronger than ever.  That’s right, tonight is the […]

You cannot say enough about pioneering rap group The Beastie Boys.  Three Jewish kids from New York named Mike D, Ad Rock, and MCA took punk rock and metal and fused it with the growing hip-hop sound and thus straddled two genres.  They rapped over beats from the Dust Brothers and they rapped over music […]