First and foremost let’s get the “who the hell is this� out of the way. My name is Matt Johansen and I’m a recent college graduate starting on my path in Information Security. I have a technical background professionally and in my education but am growing more interested in the business aspe...

These two older women are a perfect metaphor for the “economic crisis”, a.k.a. GD2 (Great Depression 2) CLICK HERE FOR DIRECT IPOD LINK...

My grandma, she's 96 years old and has been moved into a nursing home.  It's a very nice nursing home, but it's a nursing home.  It smells like dirty diapers and nobody can hear so it's very loud. When grandma was whisked away from her dismal depressing independent living...

One of the ways of starkly illustrating an aspect of the gender divide is DeBecker’s quote: “At core, men are afraid women will laugh at them, while at core, women are afraid men will kill them.” I think there’s a class and mothering parallel here: Middle-class women are afra...

I was on a mission in The Mall, the first time I was actually going to buy something there in, like, nine months.  The Mall has all those krazy kiosks that get in the way of walking from point A to point B, with people hawking their weird goods all through the obstacle course.  I usually...

Pimps Go Online to Lure Kids Into Prostitution, from Wired.com By Kevin Poulsen She was a 16-year-old California girl looking for trouble on MySpace; he was a 22-year-old self-described pimp who liked the revealing photos she posted to her profile. Three weeks after they met on the social networking...

Director : John Sturges Release Date : 23 October 1960 (USA) Genre : Western, Adventure, Drama Cast : Yul Brynner as Chris Adams, Eli Wallach as Calvera, Steve McQueen as Vin, Charles Bronson as Bernardo O’Reilly, Robert Vaughn as Lee, Brad Dexter as Harry Luck, James Coburn as Britt, Horst Bu...

Director : Steve Oedekerk Release Date : 10 November 1995 (USA) Genre : Action, Adventure, Comedy, Mystery Cast : Jim Carrey as Ace Ventura, Ian McNeice as Fulton Greenwall, Simon Callow as Vincent Cadby, Maynard Eziashi as Ouda, Bob Gunton as Burton Quinn, Sophie Okonedo as The Wachati Princess, To...

This guy named Crotch asked me for assistance with a personal project.  I have a hard time saying no to friends who ask for help, but, Crotch is not really a friend.  But he thinks we are friends.  In fact, he titled his email to me as "From a friend to a friend."&#...

Story of a begging-mafia that made a lot of money by having young children enact "poverty porn" to shock the white man - was made into a movie that pretty much did the same thing....