Imagine my total non-surprise to find out that the man behind Dashboard Mohammed, a bobblheaded version of the now-infamous “bomb turban Mohammed” Danish cartoon, is a former United States Marine (Note to the NY Daily News: There is no such…
I think that the restaurant at which my coworkers and I eat our traditional weekly Chinese Tuesday recently changed fortune cookie suppliers, as their “fortunes” are now no longer anything of the kind. Instead of predictive fortunes, we routinely find…
I’m basically sold on the concept of buying a Wii as of this moment, which makes the news that Nintendo will be selling Commodore 64 titles on their Virtual Console service just icing on the cake. It may be taking…
I can’t speak in detail about it, but yesterday offered me some clarity and insight into current goings-on in my life. I completely whiffed on an important step in pursuit of an opportunity about which I already had a great…
At some point over the last 6 months or so, Congress must have passed a resolution mandating that Fort Minor’s “Remember the Name” be used in anything even remotely resembling advertising for programs, movies or games involving football in any…
I check my Akismet queue each morning and note, usually with some amusement, the lengths to which spammers seem to be going in order to try to hawk their pornography, stock “tips” and manhood-enhancing wares on my site. Some opt…
It most likely starts with “Eego wa” and ends in, well, this: See, the team behind the Firefox browser is trying to boost Japanese usage of the browser, so they held a little competition to make the mascot a bit…
I dropped my wife and child off at the Philadelphia airport this morning at 6:45, meaning that I had to get up at the unholy time of 4:30. The reason for the early departure time? Our assistant pastor graciously offered…
The Eagles’ humiliating chokefest would have been far more entertaining to Yours Truly were it not for two incovenient facts: I have Donovan McNabb as my starting fantasy quarterback – I needed more points out of Ol’ Foot Tosser I…
I have to admit, I’ve started to become a bit of an Apple fanboy in the wake of my Powerbook/MacBook Pro conversion, but even if I hadn’t started down the road to Macdom, I still would have lusted after an…
