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The Super Bowl is in Indianapolis (and is only a few days away), and all people are talking about is that Manning quarterback.  However, it’s not Eli Manning, the quarterback of the New York Giants who is going for his second Super Bowl.  It’s Peyton Manning, Eli’s brother and quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts.  Peyton […]

If you want to scare someone, there are a lot of ways to do it.  However, for most people, the most effective way to put a serious fear into them is to mess with their birth control.  Even manufacturing mistakes can cause catastrophic family planning problems, so it’s no wonder that Pfizer has millions of […]

Soul Train was one of the indelible memories of my childhood.  For most people born in the vicinity of 1970 or for 35 years after that day, Soul Train was a phenomenon that was part of your life.  The theme song, the cry of “Sooooooul traaaaain!”, or just the Soul Train dance line… it was all part […]

Well, apparently something went wrong with the first season of Simon Cowell’s The X-Factor, because in the wake of the first season the axe is falling early and often around Cowell’s offices.  The show launched with many people, Steve Jones, L.A. Reid, Paula Abdul, Nicole Scherzinger, and Cowell himself; now, three out of those five […]

The Florida Everglades is one of the most beautiful places on earth.  You wouldn’t think there’s much beauty in a swamp, but the last time I went about a decade ago, there were some incredible sights to behold, some incredible animals to see, and lots of interesting wild creatures.  However, that seems to be changing, […]

Facebook, having hit the 500 investors market, has only a few days left to make the steps needed to become a fully public company, and among those steps are an initial public offering of stock.  There’s Facebook stock for sale out there on the private market, but the company has got to make a step […]

When it comes to college courses, the key is to get the attention of students who might not ordinarily sign up for your class. After all, you get paid by the student and you have to have a certain number of students to keep the class going, so it’s key to get eyeballs.  Hence, a […]

For four and a half months, Canadian high school students Matthew Ho and Asad Muhammed spent every Saturday working on a project.  No, it wasn’t restoring an old car, it was building a homemade satellite/space vehicle.  Somehow, they not only managed to build their spacecraft, they managed to send a Lego minifigure into space.  It’s […]

Twitter is caving to pressure.  Once, Twitter was a big mass of jumbled Tweets of various intents, meanings, and purposes.  Some were funny, some were self-promotional, some were blatantly bought and paid for, and some were just plain useless.  Well, in situations where Twitter posts come into foul with local decency laws, Twitter has something […]

If you want to talk about the secret lives of game show hosts, you might want to talk about Pat Sajak.  Apparently, the suit in charge of Wheel of Fortune used to have quite a bit of fun during tapings, and by fun I mean booze.  That’s right, Pat Sajak confessed on ESPN2 that he […]

So that big solar storm we had the other day actually had some repercussions in the real world, namely for airline companies.  As the magnetic activity continues, commercial airlines are being forced to make adjustments on the fly to many of their so-called polar routes.  Typically, a flight from Detroit to Asia means that the […]

It’s been a long time since Earth was hit by a solar storm of the magnitude of the solar storm that hit Earth’s atmostphere over the weekend; according to the NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center, the earth was hit by the largest solar storm since 2003 beginning on late Sunday night and stretching into Tuesday […]

Demi Moore, the 49-year-old who made waves by first marrying and then seeking divorce from Ashton Kutcher, is having a little trouble adjusting to the single life.  Since her marriage fell apart, she’s been looking increasingly thin and frail (which is impressive for an actress of her previous thinness).  Her personal and health problems came […]

Much like the Iranian government’s rules on haircuts and USB’s rules on underwear, Disney is a large autocratic organization with very strict rules on what employees can and cannot do, wear, or have growing on their face.  For example, the company of Walt Disney (a man with an iconic mustache) banned mustaches until 2000.  Until […]