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 Major League Baseball umpires get four weeks of paid vacation every summer. They don't actually shout "Play ball!" before games. And a tie does not, to my dismay, go to the runner. So reports my friend Bruce Weber , a New York Times staff writer and author of " As They See ...

Religious 'freelancers' nothing newGordon Hill - Las Cruces, N.M. USA TODAY's article "Redrawing the map of American religion" states, "When it comes to religion, the USA is now a land of freelancers" (Cover story, News, Monday). As a practicing Methodist......

Coming in just over a month: Love In The Time Of Recession, the new Durutii Column album. First track on the record is In Memory Of Anthony, a tribute to the late Mr. Wilson: He always encouraged me to follow my instincts. And that's still how I work. All the new songs are a very true reflection of ...

In today's column in La Tribune, I look at what the London Summit of the G20 on 2 April can and cannot achieve. I argue that the G20 should concentrate on governance issues, the area where it is best equipped to add real value. Given the circumstances, reform of the International Monetary Fund s...

I find it incredibly difficult to trust just about any journalist. Or any writer for that matter. They've always got some kind of agenda (and I'm no different I suppose). The press is full......

['Homer in Silicon' is a biweekly GameSetWatch-exclusive column by Emily Short. It looks at storytelling and narrative in games of all flavors, including the casual, indie, and obscurely hobbyist. This week she looks at "Emerald City Confidential".] Emerald City Confidential is a graphical adventure...

"Texas Legislature should pass two death-penalty related bills," is the title of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram writer's latest column. During each session of the Texas Legislature, the House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence receives a slew of very significant bills and must decide wh...

This continues a new category of posts: Guest columns where friends and readers share how technology is reshaping their hobby – basket weaving, rugby, running – whatever. This time it is my "almost-neighbor" in Orlando, Paul Wiest of Siemens Enterprise......

Is there a way to get overflowing text to appear in a separate div? My aim is to create a website layout resembling a two-column newspaper story. Ideally I'd like to have two column divs with all the copy in the first (left column), which has a set height value. Any overflowing text would automatica...