Do you remember which ones were your favorite books in school? Were there any? Kidding aside, were they the ones filled with facts? Was there a particular subject matter that interested you? What was it about it that grabbed - and retained - your attention? Was it the writing? Perhaps the visuals? N...

Developers who specialize in mobile phone applications got a little heads up today from Microsoft.  The corporation released some potentially appetite-whetting details about the upcoming Windows Marketplace for Mobile.  This new app center will be at a disadvantage insofar as it's a step b...

  Content: Peggle Price: 800 Microsoft Points Availability: All Xbox LIVE regions Dash Text: Experience the ball-bouncing, peg-busting phenomenon! Do you have what it takes to become a Peggleâ„¢ Master? Take your best shot! Conquer 55 levels with 10 mystical Magic Powers and rack up bonus point...

Filed under: Arts and Culture, North America, Mexico The local vendors manning the kiosks at Mercado 28 - Cancun's outdoor marketplace - do not disappoint. They are ready to cut you a deal and almost seem to be acting in character when you step onto the sidewalk. One instructs you, "It starts here,"...

If you wanted the unlocked $400 Android G1 phone but were reluctant because of its problems, the new 1.1 update fixes most, but still leaves the issue of running paid applications partially unsolved.......

Peggy Noonan had an excellent column Saturday that I hope you can read (since I'm a subscriber, it's hard for me to tell whether the links I post to the WSJ are subscriber-only or not). It's about how the U.S. Marine Corps dealt with its own culpability in a tragic plane crash that kille...

  After what seems like forever, there's finally some new art to share.  Six new necklaces to be exact, that are listed over in my shop at the MMCA Marketplace online shop.  I was going to wait for my new DVD from Sharilyn Miller to see if I could quick learn some new tec...

Very interesting thought, and sure to generate some conversation around this. Sony was top in video game consoles, then the Xbox came out. The Xbox just murdered the competition and set itself apart from every other gaming system. Now the XBox is known as a "hard-core gamer" system and par...

According to Microsoft, you can now surf the audio podcast catalog in their Zune site and stream them directly without connecting to the Zune Marketplace, as well as waste your time doing music......

Back in the first comment on this post, Lee mentioned James Fallows' excellent book, Breaking the News: The News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy -- which, as it happens, I actually reviewed for this newspaper when it came out. Here's what I wrote, back in 1996: THE STATE MEDIA EX...