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What do Barack Obama, Jeremy Lin, Stephen Colbert, and Chelsea Handler have in common?  They’re all interesting people.  They have something else in common, too.  They’ve all made the cut on the Time Magazine’s top 100 list.  That’s right, gang; this year’s Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world has been […]

Richard Wagstaff “Dick” Clark has been an American instutution in the world of television practically since the medium was invented.  Born in 1929, Dick Clark got his start in radion in 1945, and after success as a disc jockey in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he replaced the program of a local music show in 1956.  That show […]

To say that Jamie Moyer is old is an understatement.  At 49 years and 150 days old, Moyer has been in Major League Baseball since breaking in with the Chicago Cubs in 1986.  Since then, the left-handed Moyer has been on the most unusual journey of any professional athlete ever.  He’s never had a dominating […]

Tupac Shakur, like most artists, has been significantly more popular after death than he was while he was alive.  Since being shot at age 25 in Las Vegas in 1996, Tupac has released a host of albums and songs, and I have no doubt that there’s got to be more in the tank for Tupac’s […]

Normally, April 15 is the deadline to file your taxes.  However, this year April 15 was a Sunday, and Monday was a holiday in some parts of the United States.  Thus, there’s a new tax deadline, and it’s April 17, 2012.  That’s today, people!  Today is the deadline to file your taxes, so prepare yourself […]

Saroo Brierley wasn’t always bearing that last name.  The boy was found on the streets of Calcutta, taken in, and eventually adopted by a couple from Tasmania who raised him as their own.  It’s all good fortune for a lost Indian child in one of the most dangerous slums in the world.  However, Saroo has […]

What to know what goes on inside the walls of the Fox News Channel?  So did Gawker Media.  Somehow, they found a mole on the inside of Fox News who was willing to tell every detail about Fox News’s inner workings, no matter how mundane.  That mole’s name was Joe Muto, and the price Gawker […]

The Harry Potter universe is, for now, concluded.  No more new movies, no more new books, just Pottermore and the Wizarding World of Harry Potter to concentrate your love on… until now.  The mind behind the Harry Potter world, JK Rowling, has written her first post-Potter novel, and the details are finally starting to come […]

As it turns out, winning the national championship is a pretty good thing for the health of your basketball program.  Fresh off the 2012 NCAA Tournament Championship, John Calipari’s University of Kentucky Wildcats have something new to crow about:  the nation’s top player.  Nerlens Noel, a 6’11 center with the best hair since Kid from […]

When The Simpsons Movie was released, 13 different Springfields duked it out online, viral video style, for the chance to be the unofficial home of The Simpsons and to get a screening of the movie.  The winner of that contest was Springfield, Vermont, but according to Simpsons creator Matt Groening, that isn’t exactly where he […]

This has been a banner year for the Baylor University basketball programs.  The men’s team has made its second Elite Eight under coach Scott Drew, and the women’s team had a perfect 40-0 season with a national championship.  However, this powerhouse status hasn’t been earned cleanly.  The NCAA reports that Baylor has committed major violations […]

Of the things that Facebook does well, mobile photo sharing is not one of them.  Facebook is great at bringing in money and attracting users, but their mobile photo sharing apps are not exactly the best.  Fortunately, Facebook has a philosophy:  if you can’t build it, buy it.  Enter Instagram, the most popular photo-sharing and […]

You know you have designed something classic when it remains, unchanged, for 48 years.  The Porsche 911 is one such product.  The classic rear-engine sports car from Porsche has been in existence since 1964, when it was conceived as the brainchild of Porsche designer Ferdinand Alexander Porsche.  Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, the designer of the Porsche […]

Once upon a time, Buford, Wyoming was a bustling town with 2000 residents.  Buford, the second-oldest town in Wyoming, dates back to the founding of the transcontinental railroad and is a key stop on Interstate 80, the main cross-country road between New York and San Francisco.  That was then.  Now, Buford, Wyoming is the smallest […]