As promised, Laurie King is guest blogging here today on a topic and period that for a while now has been of endless fascination to me.  I'm a relatively new convert to the Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes mysteries, but trust me, it only takes one book to become addicted.  S...

The Importance of the Non-Techie or How I Learned to Stop Pulling Out My Hair and Love my Luddite by: Mick Jacobsen My wife mocks Twitter thoroughly, “You don’t even know these people,” she repeats. She thinks Facebook/MySpace is weird. She considers online gaming to be silly.  Sh...

The following guest post is from Outright.com. It’s tax time, which means almost 21 million self-employed people are preparing to fill out their tax returns, including Schedule C: Profit or Loss from Business. Should be pretty easy - just enter how much money came in and went out of your busin...

A hyphen can make a huge difference in a word and give it a new semantic and the reader a new insight. I’ve been rather taken recently by Lee Carroll’s book, The End Times, where writes about “voiding karma”. The simple message is one that is well known. When you follow your ...

12 of the Twelfth Month 5769 From Yekutiel Ben-Ya'akov.... Dear Tapuach K-9 Unit supporter, Here’s an update to keep you apprised of some of the more important goings-on with the dog program. First, we recently sent two of our better dogs south of Jerusalem to a bloc of settlements called Gush Etz...

Note from Phil: This is an excerpt from one of my favorite books of all time, Made to Stick, by Chip and Dan Heath. This excerpt discusses how to UNstick an idea. Later this week I’ll be giving away a copy of this book to one lucky reader, so please read on to get a sneak peak of this remarkab...

A guest post from Carlos: In today's Ha'aretz, Amira Hass aired some of Israel's dirty feces-stained laundry. The title of her piece said it all: "Pots of urine, feces in the refrigerator - how IDF troops vandalized Gaza homes." In this exposé, Hass reminds everyone about the IDF's lack of morality...

  We here at Scanner are in no way medical professionals. So why in the world would we seek medical advice from others who are? Instead, we like to ask our friends what's up. That's right, we asked a boy who has no medical training whatsoever to break down female birth control for us, b...

Hey BBM fans, it's my pleasure to hop over from my normal stomping grounds to kick off this month's guest posting.  I have some amazing martial artists coming after me so I''ll try not to drop the baton too early (did that ever happen to anyone in high school during track and field day? Mortifying)...

This is a guest post by John John Holloway of slotsgeek.com While Internet gambling over the last decade has largely threatened land-based gambling in the United States, many state governments, and the federal government as well, have desperately tried to keep the money spent by US gamblers in the U...