Americans, here's your tax dollars at work: In the U.K., Liverpool's football team has just signed up Bank of America as a major sponsor. BofA, which has received about $45 billion in U.S. federal rescue money after its acquisition of Merrill Lynch and its toxic assets, is the parent of MBNA, which ...

Today in the magical land of Twitteronia: Jimmy Fallon schmoozed the Twitter-loving press, Ana Marie Cox cried because of Jake Tapper, and a tuna-melt experiment went badly awry. Late Night host Jimmy Fallon uttered Twitter gibberish Quad City Times columnist Melissa Coulter succumbed to caffeine. S...

CSI: Vegas - Episode 9.09 - 19 Down Air Date: December 11, 2008 This is the episode where we get to meet new cast member Laurence Fishburne. His character’s name is Dr. Raymond Langston. And, sadly, it’s the next-to-last episode with William Petersen. If you like spoilers, be sure to cli...

While American discount airlines like Spirit Air and Southwest alternate between running sophomoric promotions and enforcing their prudish dress codes on passengers, European counterpart Ryanair has trumped them all with its CEO's announcement that transcontinental business class passengers will rec...

A couple of days ago, while in Germany, CEO of RyanAir Michael O'Leary was bored sh*tless during a sleep inducing press conference about airplane stuff. (Wouldn't you be?) Heck, I almost fell asleep writing this sentence. Anyway, after a few minutes the A.D.D. kicked in and so did the "blowj0b" stat...

Guess what film is opening in Canada. Guess who's flipping out about the possibility of "picketers" (because there were so many of them here, right?). Can anyone name one flipping "protest" against any showing of Expelled ? Neither can I. I wonder who will picket or try to crash? (There was a big ho...

On November 15th 2007 I took my Sigma 10-20 wide angle lens into O’Learys Camera World in Cork to be repaired. (I found out they were using some of my photos without permission too, but that’s another story. Read the linked post above!) Several phone calls followed over the weeks after t...

UPDATED: Richard and Greg weigh in. Richard mentions me *shimmy!* and Greg has the equivalent of the Encyclopaedia Britannica of links about Expelledgate (including my characteristically ladylike and demure THOSE FASCIST FUCKS THREW PZ OUT OF THE THEATRE RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME! rant.) I'd like to take...

Every man and his dog knows that Big Brother Celebrity Hijack was a big stinking tub of old porridge. Every man, it seems, except its host Dermot O'Leary - he thinks the whole thing was great. Though he doesn't want to make another one. During January of this year, digital station E4 ran Big...