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It’s hard to imagine the situation if you’re currently in the Northern hemisphere, being baked by the summer heat as I am, but on the other side of the world?  Our summer is their winter, and vice-versa.  So while we’re sweating and burning and cursing the cruelty of Helios as we drag our kiddie-pools indoors, […]

A shining example of what good young people can do, Chelsea Ives is also finding herself as a shining example of what bad young people can do, too.  As a representative of the Leyton Orient Community Sport Programme, Ives has met London mayor Boris Johnson, British Olympics chief Sebastian Coe, and a host of other […]

When Jeff Bridges got to play the role of Bad Blake in the Oscar-winning 2009 film Crazy Heart, he wasn’t just taking another role in a film career full of iconic work, nor was he simply paying homage to mentor and country legend Stephen Bruton (who co-wrote the original songs for the film with super-producer […]

When it comes to speed, humans are pretty pathetic.  Even the world’s fastest man pales in comparison to a cheetah, a computer, or a standard automobile.  Still, we’re finding ways to improve our speed, though in the case of humans that means building bigger, better, and faster vehicles.  Enter the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, […]

When it comes to famous chefs, there’s one foul-mouthed name that keeps coming up again and again.  Gordon Ramsay, he of Hell’s Kitchen fame, is one of the best-known celebrity chefs in the world, and it’s his name recognition that makes him a hot property.  Ramsay will be teaming with Caesars Entertainment for a string […]

Yesterday was a red letter day for Apple.  Apple has been on a meteoric rise from a company value standpoint, and that shows no signs of stopping any time soon.  Just last year, Apple rose into the top ten of most valuable companies in the world.  Apple’s passed Microsoft as the most valuable tech company […]

People are just crazy these days.  I mean, you can get attacked for no reason at all, as evidenced by the KFC beatings.  Still, you’d think that someone with a few hit records under his belt would be pretty safe from a butt-kicking, but apparently not.  Sometime last night, a group of people attacked singer/songwriter […]

The Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, has faced a myriad of problems in the short time that it has been open.  Aside from the fact that the Burj Khalifa’s original developer ran out of money and the many construction problems the building has had, there are other issues for folks living in […]

When Diana Nyad was a young woman, she was one of the best swimmers on the planet.  She owned several world records, including swimming from Bimini to Florida (102.5 miles) and swimming around Manhattan in under 8 hours.  She was pretty impressive.  As it turns out, she’s still impressive despite being near retirement age.  The […]

      It seemed like the NFL lock-out would never end, and really, I was beginning to think it wouldn’t.  Despite the fact that the NFL and NFLPA agreed to a CBA way back in July, nothing has actually happened aside from the players returning to training camp and signing union cards.  Well, fret […]

Yesterday was a bad day for those of us who have retirement money tied up in the stock market.  Me, for example.  I had a terrible day yesterday, and I shudder to think just how much money I lost yesterday due to the stock market taking an abrupt, scary nose-dive.  The Dow Jones industrial average, […]

When it comes to space shuttles, the poor, doomed Space Shuttle Columbia has more in common with the fatally-flawed Challenger than its retired bretheren Discovery and Atlantis.  After Columbia’s explosion in 2003, parts rained down across the plains of Texas, and some, but not all, of the parts were recovered.  However, those parts recovered just […]

After a man called the Swedish Radiation Authority and asked them if it was legal to build a nuclear reactor in one’s own home, authorities got suspicious and started investigating.  As it turns out, in the western Sweden city of Angelholm, a 31-year-old man was building a nuclear reactor in his own home out of […]