An interactive map published by the NY Times allows you to find the immigrants, all the way back to 1880, just before my own ancestors came over from various parts of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The data is broken down into ten-year intervals and various countries and regions. Now that the presiden...

Filed under: Casting, Reality-Free I've been pretty hard on NBC of late, like calling for Jeff Zucker's head when NBC announced it will present Jay Leno every weeknight in prime time next fall, but I think I'm going to have to tip my cap to the network for how ER is coming to an end. Not only have t...

Getting caught up on stuff on the DVR on a lazy Sunday, so quick spoilers for this week's "House" and "ER" coming up just as soon as I hire a hooker to watch me sleep... Maybe it's because I put it way down at the bottom of my priority list this week, and went into it with no expectations whatsoever...

Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, Reality-Free At 8, ABC has a new Ugly Betty . CBS has a new Survivor at 8, then new episodes of CSI and Eleventh Hour . NBC has the special Secrets of the Furious Five at 8, followed by a new Kath & Kim . FOX has a new American Idol a...

Dia is a dedicated application for drawing different types of Diagrams, Graphs, Network Diagrams, Entity-Relationship diagrams, Flowcharts, UML diagram etc. A setup file of 12.2Mb is to be downloaded, and when installed you can start drawing the diagrams. The interface is quite simple; anybody who h...

Andreas Beck wurde in Sibirien geboren und spielt für die deutsche Nationalmannschaft. Ein Gespräch über Fußball als Integrationshilfe, Nationalstolz und Fischkuchen...

Gestern Abend wollte ich mich eigentlich zuerst dorthin begeben, wo die Menschen knietief in Pisse versinken, statt die schon in den 30ern des vergangenen Jahrhunderts vorliegenden Warnungen vor ausschweifender Lebensart zu beherzigen. Kurzfristig disponierte ich jedoch um und ging in......

Spoilers for last night's "ER" coming up just as soon as I drink some mushrooms... "It's like Bizarro ER." -Carter No, John, it's exactly like "ER," in that they had to go and give you a serious illness (requiring dialysis) so you can continue your transformation into the new Mark Greene, sufferer o...

Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free At 8, ABC has a new Ugly Betty, followed by new episodes of Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice. CBS has a new Survivor at 8, then new episodes of CSI and Eleventh Hour. NBC has new episodes of My Name ...

Hi hi, Sisters! See, less than 24 hours later, I already have more to write about… xD The bulk of this hash-out will be driven by… definitions and analogies. =) Bits from a comment on Part I– Aisa, here’s the ordeal. To answer analogically, it makes girls happy to go shopping. It...