Locally, there’s a bit of a debate brewing - with budgets slashes, the City wanted to close the least-used local library, at least temporarily; doing so would allow them to essentially leave the other libraries in town untouched, as far as funding and services go. Of course, some folks get the...

Ma plictisesc…sau stau pe net. Azi in mod special, m-am ocupat de ceea ce urmeaza…   4.6 Quality of Service  Problemele de QoS sunt discutate în perspective de reÅ£ea end-to-end, cu accent pe felul în care se realizează serviciul de QoS între endpoints pe o reÅ£ea de tip packet-swi...

Tour de Rocket Fuel Before I delve into some tidbits of the evening, I have a declaration of guilt to make. The backlash of A-Rod’s confession has brought one of my deep, dark secrets to a head. For the record, I would like to state that I tested positive for tasting enhancing drugs during the 200...

 . . . involved getting up very early, and schlepping an hour away to watch my son play in 2 basketball games.  I am so glad I was there--they played well, and actually won both games. The team is really coming along, and it's very rewarding to watch my son, as he skyrockets in heigh...

It's only a few days into the new year, and the long-awaited 2009 Nibbler Championship is here! Nibbler, for those who don't recall, was an arcade game made by the jukebox company Rock-Ola in the early 1980s. Nibbler is mostly forgotten other than it’s historical appeal as the sole arcade ...

by Shaker Leigh While perusing the week's newspapers online, I stumbled upon this story about Ameneh Bahrami in Sunday's Washington Post. It sent me into such a tizzy that I e-mailed Liss, imploring her to write about it here. She invited me to step up and do it myself. So. For those who aren't fami...

It's no secret that the denizens of Idolator HQ are big fans of both Fall Out Boy and really smart pop, so having FOB frontman Patrick Stump and pop troubadour Butch Walker interview each other is kind of the perfect way to introduce our new series of conversations between artists. After the jump, t...

http://www.kinghussein.gov.jo/kabd_eng.html "As the Arabs see the Jews" His Majesty King Abdullah, The American Magazine November, 1947 Summary This fascinating essay, written by King Hussein’s grandfather King Abdullah, appeared in the United States six months before the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. In...

Like most post-election seasons, we have our share of recounts going on. I’m going to expand on one of my first blog posts about the electoral tie problem. My suggestion will seem extremely radical to many, and thus will never happen, but it’s worth talking about. Scientists know that wh...

As we digest last week's Republican National Convention and that party's traditional small government platforms, such as a constitutional ban on gay marriage, as well as their staunch pro-life platforms, such as an unequivocal support of the death penalty and fewer restrictions on guns, now might be...