Here’s the thing about books by L. Ron Hubbard: Scientology. I held it against him as a writer of pulp fiction, which I shouldn’t have done. I think it’s a con and didn’t want to do anything to publicize the con man. Then I thought, “So what if it’s a con? Hubbard was a damn good pul...

January 7, 2009 By Earl Ofari Hutchinson The voluntary withdrawal by scandal-plagued New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson from the Commerce Secretary post drew instant and angry demands from some Latino leaders for Obama to pick another Latino to replace Richardson. In making the demand they fanned t...

I started on Twitter because I wanted to share thoughts that weren't long enough for a blog post.  Now that I'm there, I find myself wanting to "tweet" thoughts that are too long for Twitter.  Here's one.  New York lawyer Tony Colleluori, whose blog is that lawyer dude  (he's @thatlawyerdude ...

Remember last year, we brought word of "Buko", an XNA title that Microsoft were quietly showing off which sounded suspiciously like LittleBigPlanet? Well it's not quiet anymore, they just showed it during the CES keynote. Renamed "Kodu", the game admittedly looks nothing like LittleBigPlanet. In fac...

I borrowed my math teacher’s calculator during class today since mine was out of battery. I got bored and curious since he had a fancy shmancy calculator and I went into the game mode and then I couldn’t figure out how to turn off the game, no matter how hard I tried. I finally took off ...

Right, EFL Geek tagged me in a meme where the rules are like this: Link your original tagger(s), and list these rules on your blog Share 7 facts about yourself in the post - some random, some weird Tag seven people at the end of your post Let them know they’ve been tagged Right, here are seven thi...

Although often berated as a prime example of the "Liberal Main Stream Media" that conservative radio talk show hosts love to loathe, the latest issue of Time magazine sang the praises of a company that's often been labeled as one of the biggest of the bad boys when it comes to loan servicers who liv...

"Buy and Hold" is what we imagine if "for the duration" applies to investing. TV ads for brokerages and brain dead media writers are now advising people not to panic just because their accounts are down 50% from December 31, 2007. It "Bogles" the mind. "Stay the co...

Advertise on NYTimes.comFor the Blind, Technology Does What a Guide Dog Can’t For the Blind, Technology Does What a Guide Dog Can’tBy MIGUEL HELFT MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. T. V. RAMAN was a bookish child who developed a love of math and puzzles at an early age. That passion didn’t change after gl...

It seems the corruption that dominates our local politics extends to the area school system. The Chicago Public Schools Office of Inspector General dealt with over 1,000 complaints of fraud and waste between July 2007 and July 2008, an issue symbolized by the Cappuccino Machine Debacle. A CPS manage...