Hey folks. Life has reared its ugly head and kept me from updating the blog. I hope you're all planning on coming out to Grillin' On The Bay AND the Brooklyn Chli Smackdown this year. If you're looking to cook, get your application in quickly. We may be sold out. We're putting together a great event...

Es ist die Endphase der Conference-Spiele im College Basketball. Bevor am nächsten Sonntag die NCAA (US-Hochschulsport-Verband) die 65 Teilnehmer der March Madness festlegt, stehen in 30 der 31 Conferences die Playoffs an. Die großen, wichtigen Conferences fangen erst in dieser Woche an, mit den F...

Filed under: Programming, OpEd, Reality-Free, The Mentalist Here we are in the middle of the March sweeps period (March this year instead of February, because we were supposed to switch to digital TV on February 17 and Nielsen was worried that would screw up the numbers) and The Mentalist is a repea...

Here we go with the first round of Free Money Finance March Madness (if you wonder what's going on in these posts, see my article announcing March Madness and/or click on my March Madness category link and scroll down to read all the posts involved in this subject.) I've listed each "game" (one pos...

Hard to believe that the NCAA Mens’ Basketball March Madness Tournament is just around the corner — but it is, and this year CBS Sports is adding a high-quality viewing option to its March Madness On Demand (MMOD) video player. The new player uses Microsoft’s Silverlight (CBS has a...

Here we go with the first round of Free Money Finance March Madness (if you wonder what's going on in these posts, see my article announcing March Madness and/or click on my March Madness category link and scroll down to read all the posts involved in this subject.) I've listed each "game" (one pos...

Here we go with the first round of Free Money Finance March Madness (if you wonder what's going on in these posts, see my article announcing March Madness and/or click on my March Madness category link and scroll down to read all the posts involved in this subject.) I've listed each "game" (one pos...

Yes, it's that time of year again -- Free Money Finance March Madness is upon us! For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, it's our annual "tournament" of the best personal finance articles of the past year. They face each other in an NCAA-style bracket system, FMF readers vote for th...

Filed under: Industry, Programming, Ratings, Reality-Free Here are the weekly TV ratings, by number of viewers. Even though the picture is from Two and a Half Men (for a change), American Idol got the first two slots this week again. Dancing with the Stars got the third and fifth slots, sandwiching ...

Here's the moment you've all been waiting for! Thanks to your votes (as well as those on the PETA blog), we have narrowed down our tournament to the final two worst university vivisectors in the nation! They've been through a lot to get here, overcoming an unbelievably tough field of cat killers, mo...