Unusual Stuff

The US Commonwealth of Puerto Rico has a long, rich baseball tradition, with players like Roberto Clemente, Ivan Rodriguez, Carlos Beltran, Carlos Delgado, Juan Gonzalez, and Bernie Williams hailing from the island.  All of those names, most of which are Hall of Famers or should be, have one thing in common.  None of them were […]

To call Tiger Woods’ recent performances since his injuries and his marital problems a slump is to redefine slump from a temporary ailment to a seemingly permanent setback.  However, with one brilliant chip on the 16th hole of Muirfield Village in Dublin, Ohio, Woods’ fortunes seem to have changed.  That chip turned a possible bogey […]

Remember back when the iPhone was an elite device for unhappy AT&T users only?  That has certainly changed in a hurry.  First the iPhone hit Verizon Wireless; after that, the iPhone went to Sprint.  Now, you don’t even have to have a wireless carrier to have an iPhone anymore.  Apple’s vaunted iPhone 4S is headed […]

How Kathy Lee Gifford ended up as the host of her own hour of The Today Show is kind of a mystery, but I have to admit that checking in on Kathy Lee and co-host Hoda Kotb is kind of like checking in with a daily train wreck starring America’s favorite drunk aunt.  It’s not a good […]

How should you feel about a Hall of Fame player whose personal problems derailed his career in spite of his physical skills?  That’s the question of the day concerning one Terrell Owens, better known as T.O.  Terrell Owens, a sure-fire NFL Hall of Famer, was cut by the Allen Wranglers of the Indoor Football League; […]

When it comes to computer security, no virus is quite as famous as Stuxnet.  Stuxnet is a computer worm long believed to be a cyberwarfare strike against Iranian nuclear capabilities, is definitely a troublesome computer infection, but it’s got nothing on a newly-discovered computer infection believed to be an act of warfare.  On Monday, cyber […]

No matter what happens, Roger Federer keeps showing up and keeps winning.  He’s 30 years old, practically ancient in tennis terms, and has been surpassed by Rafa Nadal and Novak Djokovic, but Roger Federer continues to rack up wins at Grand Slam tournaments.  For example, at the French Open yesterday, Roger Federer blasted German Tobias […]

Memorial Day traffic is a terrible thing, and no one knows that more than professional boxer Paul Williams.  One of the most unusual righters in the sport, considering he’s 6’2 and fights at welterweight (147 pounds), Williams has long been a boxing sensation and has struggled routinely to get matchups during his career.  Well, it […]

Boston police have said they would tell people about a zombie outbreak, and there are other places with zombie warning signs, but these places aren’t Miami, Florida.  Florida is America’s weirdness capital, and Miami is Florida’s weirdness capital, so it goes without saying that some news that leaks out of that state can be disturbing. […]

Just when you thought the news couldn’t get any better for the combined monolith of Activision-Blizzard, they drop the long-awaited, much-wanted Diablo III.  It was a very successful launch for Blizzard, improving on the history of the Diablo franchise.  How successful was it?  Blizzard estimates 4.7 million copies of Diablo III were active within the […]

Golden Globes winner Jim Parsons, best known as Sheldon Cooper from the hit television sitcom The Big Bang Theory, has made a very public announcement.  Or rather, he did it in a very subtle way.  In a recent New York Times piece discussing his role in the Broadway version of Harvey, the writer references the […]

Never let it be said that football players aren’t competitive in everything they do.  Consider Donald Driver, who won a Super Bowl last season before heading to the dance floor as part of the 14th cast of Dancing With The Stars.  He came, he saw, and he blew everyone away.  Donald Driver is Dancing With The […]

Yahoo has made a whole lot of mistakes in recent years.  Since ousting founder Jerry Yang in 2008 as CEO, the company has had five bosses.  Their most recent CEO was fired over his inaccurate resume and false credentials.  They’ve lost so much of their market share to Google, have been the target of multiple […]

The launch of Google Chrome has really changed the web browser landscape.  Thanks in no small part to its great speed, Google Chrome has gone from nothing to being incredibly popular.  Just how popular?  Google Chrome has passed Internet Explorer to become the most-used browser in the world, according to StatCounter’s page views metric.  Google […]

Van Halen’s tour in support of their first new album with David Lee Roth in nearly 30 years, A Different Kind of Truth, has been really successful.  However, it hasn’t been without its problems.  Some of those problems have resurfaced, apparently, though the band isn’t talking about what’s going on.  After their June 26 show […]