We usually wait until we have a mid-week lull to watch Flight of the Conchords (On Demand, baby!) but we're going to watch it as soon as we're done writing this post just so we can see the "Garfunkeling" in better quality. Also, why is it that Jemaine is the only one ever ge...

Just when I was beginning to get over my phobia of display plates, it appears that all things knitted, weaved and crocheted are making a resurgence too. Not that it hasn't been a long time coming, celebrities have been flashing around their knitting needles for quite a while, and even your grandma w...

Filed under: Gear What is this obsession with women being able to pee standing up? Other than the ability to write my name in the snow, I have not really felt like I'm missing out on anything. I have yet to catch any communicable diseases from a toilet seat. And I do actually sit on the toilet seat....

In today's sad story, a 14-year old boy in China allegedly bled to death after the compressed gas canister used to raise and lower his office chair exploded, launching a barrage of shrapnel into his b-hole. Now I hate to start wildly speculating who's at fault here, but it's obviously Microsoft. BCO...

    Ninety-six years ago, voters won the constitutional right to choose their own senators. But in all but four states, the governor decides who will fill the seat after a vacancy. Now, there's a drive in Congress for a constitutional amendment requiring a special election to fil...

Newt Gingrich is right. Republican campaign consultants are probably the dumbest, most short-sighted unimaginative pedestrian minds working in politics today. And, in hindsight, even while acknowledging the great job he did in 2004, I think I’ll lay some of the blame at the feet of Karl Rove a...

On Monday’s CBS Evening News, correspondent Nancy Cordes reported on perjury allegations against Illinois Senator Roland Burris and calls for his resignation: "Burris admits he did much more than just talk to one person, in fact, he says he talked to four other people with close connections a...

MORE GOOD HAM NEWS: Oklahoma Hams Warn of Oncoming Tornadoes Amateur Radio Club Helps Red Cross Communicate (Maryland) Sync Files and Folders Outside Your My Dropbox Folder One of the things that makes this service unusable for me is that you have to put everything you want to sync in the Dropbox fo...

So, seats are coming on the market so fast I can hardly keep up. Some of the exciting newcomers are the Graco Nautilus, First Years True Fit, Britax Frontier, Evenflo Symphony, and the new Cosco Alpha Omega with 50 pound limit. So, we own a Nautilus and True Fit and I recently bought a Frontier to r...

Many of you are familiar with TED, the annual conference where great thinkers, visionaries, experts, and creators get up and expound on ideas in a 15 (or is it 18?) minute timespan, the results of which end up on video for people around the world to digest. The big problem with TED is that the barri...