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Ted Williams, the homeless man with a golden voice whose story has capitvated a nation, seems to have some trouble in his personal life.  Fortunately, it’s not a drug-related issue, but anger-related.  Ted Williams and his daughter were arguing so loudly with one another that the LAPD were called in to detain the two parties […]

How quickly fortunes change.  Overtaken by the leaner and cooler Facebook, MySpace is one of a host of web giants now reduced to hobbling beggars striving for your attention.  MySpace will be laying off 500 workers worldwide , or about 47 percent of its Beverly Hills, California workforce.  Three years ago, MySpace was a billion-dollar […]

China’s long-rumored J-20 stealth fighter jet has had the world buzzing since December, with shots of the craft recently leaking online.  Well, that rumored fighter is the truth.  China took the J-20 stealth fighter out for a test flight while US Defense Secretary Robert Gates was visiting the country.  If that’s not a shot across […]

Actor Michael Douglas was shocked when he discovered he was diagnosed with throat cancer.  Stage IV throat cancer, no less.  However, that’s fairly common when dealing with throat cancer, as the only real symptom is difficult swallowing.  However, given throat cancer and the advances in throat cancer treatment, the prognosis is good no matter when […]

South Korean filmmaker Chan-wook Park shot to international fame with his film Oldboy (and the Vengeance Trilogy), a gritty, hard-hitting revenge thriller with serious psychosexual overtones that’s one of the best films I’ve ever seen from Asia, let alone from South Korea.  Chan-wook Park’s latest film, a collaboration with his brother Chan-kyong Park, is Paranmanjang, […]

While walking through the streets of Naples with his girlfriend, 28-year-old Darco Sangermano was injured in a very weird, fluke fashion.  It was New Year’s Eve, and revelers were celebrating by firing guns into the air.  Well, given that what goes up must come down, those celebration bullets became potentially lethal hail.  Darco Sangermano was […]

The village of Reconvilier, Switzerland, is a pretty small place, but it’s pretty pet-friendly.  The town’s population is 2,245 humans and 280 dogs, but the dogs might be at risk due to the actions of their humans.  According to a 1904 law, if people do not pay a $50 dollar dog tax, the town may […]

The executive train at Microsoft is showing no signs of slowing down.  A few months after the departure of Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie, yet another Microsoft executive is heading for the unemployment line.  The head of Microsoft’s Server and Tools Business, Bob Muglia, is stepping down.  Muglia had been involved in the company […]

The offensive fireworks everyone expected didn’t happen.  Instead the BCS title game between Auburn and Oregon was a grind-it-out slugfest, with neither side able to execute consistently against the other side’s defense.  Fittingly, it wasn’t the arm of Cameron Newton or the legs of Michael Dyer that won the game for the Auburn Tigers, it […]

There’s one thing that’s clear.  Despite Western squeamishness about stereotypes and whatnot, it’s clear:  Asian children are out-achieving American children, both in Asia and in the United States.  Asians work harder, are more gifted musically, and generally achieve out of proportion to their percentage in the US, and it’s all thanks to the parents.  Take […]

In June, Twitter announced a new feature for potential advertisers:  purchasing trending topics.  That means, when people use your hashtag, they see your advertisement or sponsored tweet at the top of the list, no matter what it might be.  Advertisers were slow to latch onto this, but one group has pounced and picked up a […]

It’s one of the only facilities of its kind in the United States.  When you die, you’ll get buried or cremated or shot into space, and it’s over.  But what about those left behind?  Not children, but pets.  Well, if you have the money, you can check Fido or Fluffy into the Stevenson Companion Animal […]

Just because people stop reporting on something doesn’t mean the problem itself stops.  The Somalian pirate attacks on oil tankers and cargo ships have stopped being newsworthy ages ago.  That said, they’re still happening.  Fortunately, British defense company BAE has a great idea to fight off pirates, from Somalia or elsewhere.  BAE has unveiled a […]

You’d think Somali would have bigger problems.  Really, Somalia does have bigger problems than codes of behavior, but try telling that to Islamic extremist group al-Shabab.  In al-Shabab-dominated Southern Somalia, militant Islamic forces control pretty much every aspect of life, aside from Somalia’s pirates.  In the town of Jowhar, Somalia, militants have banned handshakes between […]

It’s taken the better part of a year, and probably longer, but the rumors have finally been proven true.  Verizon Wireless, the nation’s largest cellular phone service, will be adding the world’s most popular smartphone.  That’s right, boys and girls, you can officially drop your terrible AT&T service because the iPhone is coming to Verizon […]