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For awhile, it looked as though the only participants in the Cliff Lee sweepstakes were the New York Yankees and the Texas Rangers.  As it turns out, there was a third team also fighting for Cliff Lee’s services as a starting pitcher, and it was that team that won the top prize.  The Philadelphia Phillies […]

After 33 years, there’s one space probe that continues to pay dividends for NASA, and that’s the Voyager 1.  Unlike the Space Shuttle, Voyager 1 is 33 years of age and still going strong.  In fact, the space probe is just about to make history and leave the solar system.  According to NASA analysis of […]

The Big Ten’s expansion into twelve teams is not without controversy.  After all, the Big Ten is now twelve teams and the Big 12 is now ten teams, yet they are retaining their names.  However, the name is about the only thing that will remain.  The Big Ten conference has unveiled sweeping new changes to […]

It doesn’t matter when the meteor shower is or what the meteor shower might be called.  Be they Leonids, Perseids, or Geminids, I love meteor showers and I don’t care how hot or how cold, when there are meteors falling, you’ll generally find me outside to check them out.  If you’re a skywatcher, December is […]

There are a lot of strange laws out there, but the job of the police officer is to enforce those laws, no matter what.  Part of those laws include writing tickets, which most cops don’t really enjoy but thanks to an unspoken (or spoken) system of quotas and ticket requirements, sometimes you have to do […]

If you were trying to shop online via Amazon over the weekend, you might have had some trouble.  European visitors to shopping giant Amazon encountered nearly 30 minutes of downtime on Sunday, preventing visitors from UK, France, Italy, Germany, and Austria from getting their Christmas shopping done.  The culprit wasn’t Wikileaks hackers from Operation Payback […]

The coaching carousel is already starting to spin in the college football world.  In the lull between the end of the college football regular season and the beginning of bowl season, the activity begins.  Coaches like Dave Wannstedt get fired, and other coaches get hired.  In this case, the former Temple Owls head coach Al […]

The business of leaking documents is about to get a little more interesting.  WikiLeaks, the godfather of leak websites, has been hit by a lot of negative publicity lately over the behavior of founder Julian Assange.  Some disgruntled WikiLeaks staff have left the company and are starting OpenLeaks, a rival website also dedicated to leaking […]

The Wikileaks scandal has been a public relations disaster for the United States, and the United States military is starting to taste the lash of punishment.  In a Cyber Control Order issued on December 3 by Major General Richard Webber of Air Force Network Operations, military personnel are banned from using removable media disks like CDs, […]

When the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department raided the home of George Jakubec, they discovered something pretty shocking.  Inside the home, where the accused bank robber Jakubec lived for three years, they discovered a whole cachet of munitions-making material, enough to fuel a terrorist cell, blow up the entire neighborhood, or supply a small army. […]

Gadsden, Alabama, isn’t the kind of place where I’d think a vampire would hang out.  After all, it’s Alabama, where it’s hot and muggy and generally sunny quite a bit.  Doesn’t strike me as good vampire weather; for all its stupidity, Twilight’s vampire infestation in the Pacific Northwest makes the most sense to me since […]

In April, 2008, Wesley Snipes was convicted of failing to file taxes and was sentenced to three years in prison.  He’s been fighting that conviction since then.  However, Wesley Snipes has been unsuccessful and will be going to prison for three years.  Yesterday afternoon, Wesley Snipes reported to McKean Federal Correctional Institute in Lewis Run, […]

Steve Jobs does a lot of strange things.  He’s got many personal quirks (especially how he’s worn the same outfit to every press conference for the last 10 years), but among his weirder quirks is his refusal to claim several small amounts of money and property he’s apparently owed.  Every year, California requires corporations to […]

Remember the story of Katie Goldman, the 7-year-old who got bullied for being a fan of Star Wars?  Well, she’s gone from being just a cute kid with glasses and missing teeth and a big smile.  Now, she is the focal point, the face of an entire pro-geek movement.  A Facebook group kicked it off, […]