Sorry for the mass emailing but due to troubling times at WFMU I have to make a first time non-Nigerian scam request for your help. I hate asking for anything. If I were to ask for anything it would be an egg and cheese on a hard roll with french fries and a coffee but unfortunately I'm not here...

An episode of “Big Love,� the HBO series about a polygamous Mormon family has courted controversy with the Mormon church....

A new herb for my noodle soup? Ngoc Mai is known for its dishes from Hue, the ancient political and culinary capital of Vietnam, and from that section of its menu I chose bun oc ($6.50), a "clam noodle soup" also rife with pork, squid, and shrimp. The namesake "oc" literally refers to golf-ball-size...

Today, we round out the bottom five in our organizational rankings series. And, for those of you who haven’t seen the first four parts (which are linked below), keep in mind that this is a forward looking exercise - we are evaluating clubs on their overall ability to contend for a World Series...

In this issue: Pencho Popadiyn, Gavin Wignall, Jesse Liberty(2), Ian Blackburn, Rishi, Andrej Tozon, and Corey Schuman. Shoutouts: Andy Beaulieu has a post up about all the good Silverlight Gaming goodness: Silverlight Gaming ++ , as with PCs and hardware, I also believe gaming will bring Silverligh...

I share Charles’ disappointment with K’naan’s show, but not because it betrayed hard-line hiphop protocol: no, I just thought the music was fair-to-middling. K’naan undeniably has lyrical skills—especially for an ESL speaker—and a dramatic bio that surely could fi...

Filed under: Republicans FiveThirtyEight claims to have a credible source saying that Steele is out if the GOP doesn't win NY-20 later in the month. I don't know about that, it seems to be a pretty specific claim for a Democratic site, but more interesting and concerning to this conservative is thei...

America's Manliest Cities(Thanks to Patrick)...

America's Manliest Cities(Thanks to Patrick)...

[Dave Birch] One of my most frequent criticisms of the UK's national identity card scheme is that it is backward-looking, an electronic simulation of a Victorian ID card rather than an ID card for the 21st century. I gave an example of this in a talk recently by using the case of OpenID, noting that...