Literal Barrage

Title: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel
Author: Susanna Clarke
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Genre: Fiction
Available From: Amazon, Barnes & Noble
Jonathan Strange is an odd book. Its premise is simple: it's the early 19th century and the Napoleonic wars are raging in Europe. England, once the proud seat of European magic and magicians, has all but [...]

Now this is what I like to see:

Dig those crazy rocket jumps and the Spy's "Predator suit". Boy oh boy! "Spring 2007" just can't come soon enough.

September through February is my favorite time of the year, for one reason and one reason only: NFL Football, baby.
Last night was the draft for my fantasy football league and I'm even more confident this year in my draft selections than I was going into my two leagues last year (seeing as I finished 0-12 [...]

…You go to use the restroom, only to find that you were so tired and out of it when dressing yourself that you managed to put your underwear on inside-out and backwards.
I mean, hypothetically, of course. Not that I would do such a…
Oh dear.

Ooops. Looks like one of the CNN anchorettes was taking a brief restroom break while CNN was running the President's speech today, which would be all well and good if it weren't for the fact that one of the audio guys left her mike live, meaning that her bathroom chit-chat went out live over [...]

Well, they've done it for the second time in their three years in Philly: the Barrage handily defeated the Denver Outlaws 23-12 on Sunday to capture the Major League Lacrosse title for 2006. I'm sure many "real" Philly fans will argue that this title doesn't "count" against the 23 year championship drought that Philadelphia [...]

I thought Microsoft had an unalloyed good thing in the leak of their Office-esque training videos, but then they had to go all Microsoft and get snippy about the leaks (so too, apparently, did Ricky Gervais). It's unfortunate, really - like the Microsoft's redesign of the iPod packaging, I thought the "training" videos showed [...]