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Fifty years ago today, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was a 43-year-old man who took the nation, and the globe, by storm.  He had a narrow electoral win over Richard Nixon, and all of his Hollywood friends (including one Francis Albert Sinatra) were ready to celebrate.  But first, there was the little matter of the inaugural address. […]

Starbucks, the company that has taken coffee to the masses, is about to increase the size of its following.  Remember early last year when I first wrote about the Trenta, a 30-ounce drink offering for iced and cold drinks at Starbucks?  Well, the Trenta didn’t go away; in fact, the Starbucks Trenta is making its […]

Your horoscope is wrong.  Your horoscope has been wrong since well before the dawn of the modern era, according to astrology experts (in conjunction with astrology experts).  You see, the Earth wobbles a bit on its axis.  The ancient Babylonians based your Zodiac sign on the position of the sun in the constellations when you […]

If you’ve tried to drive in the Dakotas or fly on the East Coast of the United States, you know just how bad the weather is out there.  There’s snow everywhere, and I mean that literally.  In 49 of the 50 US states, there is snow cover on the ground.  The only state to miss […]

It’s one of the weirdest animals I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen a lot of weird critters here at PopFi.  Residents in a Venice, Florida neighborhood have a new face on the block.  An orange alligator has taken up residence in a Florida subdivision.  No one is more surprised than neighbors and local officials, who say […]

I have to own up to something:  I’m having trouble following all the stories of animal deaths and unusual mass animal deaths from around the globe.  There’s just so many of them dying around the world, from the 2 million dead spot fish in the Chesapeake Bay to the dead birds flopping out of the […]

It’s been dubbed the world’s greatest license plate.  First appearing on the Internet several years ago (first issued in 2004), it’s a Virginia license plate bearing the message EATTHE.  Just under EATTHE is the charity name Kids First.  Put it together, it reads Eat The Kids First.  Talk about brilliant vanity plates!  Well, it’s taken […]

I have no doubt that mistakes like these are why Google Chrome OS netbooks will not have a capslock key.  Google has gone to unusual methods to promote its new Google Chrome browser, which has become my favorite web browser to use due to how blindingly fast it is.  To promote Google Chrome in tech-savvy […]

If you’re just now waking up and decide to hit up Google, don’t be confused.  You didn’t type in the wrong URL, Google is simply doing its usual holiday special with the Google Doodle.  It’s actually really clever when you consider it; Google is pretty unique in terms of how it is spelled, and since […]

When you think about people involved in politics, what do you think of?  Boring suits, giant bleached-white teeth, comb-overs, sweaty handshakes?  Well, a political party in the Czech Republic is looking to change the image of politics.  The Czech Republic’s Public Affairs party has released a sexy calendar featuring four of the party’s members of parliament, candidates […]

Has a farmer from Kentucky done something next to impossible?  Mark Cothren thinks so, and he’s sent off DNA samples to get the proof.  Mark Cothren, a farmer from rural Lebanon Junction, Kentucky, believes that he has shot and killed a mythical chupacabra.  The chupacabra, Spanish for goat sucker, is a cryptid animal that has […]

When you read about private companies launching spacecraft, it makes me think that, these days, it’s pretty easy to get something into space.  After all, if some company can do it, why can’t a country do it?  Especially a country the size of India, with that level of technical prowess and that amount of money […]

Did you get to see the lunar eclipse last night/this morning?  I did not, but not for lack of trying.  Last night, we had some weather move into my area, and the rain and snow clouds concealed the winter light show that the rest of North America got to enjoy.  I was sad about this, […]

On a hot August day, New Yorker Mark Moody decided to take a smoking break.  He opened the window, then sat on the ledge with his feet dangling while smoking.  There’s nothing wrong with this, in theory or in practice.  However, when the NYPD drove past, then jumped out of the car, they were acting […]

There’s a lot of things you can do with data sets.  Paul Butler, an intern with Facebook’s data infrastructure engineering team, wanted to play with the information Facebook collects on their 500 million users around the world.  Butler wanted to see just how people connect with one another.  In an attempt to visualize where people […]