Conserving energy is one of those things that you may want to do, but you've never gotten around to it, and you're not exactly sure how to start -- because, well, thinking about stuff is hard. The SmartSwitch prototype -- designed by Peter Russo and Brendan Wypich at Stanford University -- works on ...

Daniel Briere is getting over his groin adhesions; for this guy, the problems are just starting. Oh, the life of Daniel “Danny” Briere – it’s just one injury after another these days, isn’t it? If you’re a fantasy manager, you were stoked to see Briere finally bac...

“The Strongest Man Alive” March 5th, 2009 There has very rarely been a scenario wherein two tribes on Survivor have been such polar opposites. Going into tonight’s episode, Timbira has been a highly dysfunctional wreck of a tribe, where Coach is convinced that he is not actually pa...

The New York Islanders' Brendan Witt shows little respect for the game (or his fellow players) with this concussion-causing elbow to  Nicklas Hagman. Look, I'm no prude when it comes to tough on-ice play and hard hits, but Witt seems to go out of his way to pop Hagman's jaw with an elbow. And w...

“Mama Said There’d Be Days Like This” February 26th, 2009 Winners find a way to win, losers find a way to lose. Coach might be one of the most delusional and irrational players in recent memory on Survivor, but of his various cliched idioms this one is actually quite apt for the ga...

  Charlotte Church is 23 Rue McClanahan is 75 Corbin Bleu is 20 William Baldwin is 46 Christopher Atkins is 48 Chuck Palahniuk is 47 Ellen Page is 22 Mary Chapin Carpenter is 51 Jennifer Love Hewitt is 30 Brendan Sexton III is 29...

Today a group of LGBT rights and sexual freedom activists gathered just down the block from Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Upper East Side mansion to protest the false arrests of gay men in NYC's adult bookshops. Robert Pinter, a victim of this campaign, gave interviews to a number of local and national ...

so my friend brendan mcginley, creator of "hannibal goes to rome" (you may remember me plugging this book back in august may when he was in the zuda competition) was at the new york comic con this weekend pimping his wares.  i call him by name solely to leech traffic from his site coming from comic...

We promise not to go on any Christian Bale-type rants when we dispense hockey advice. While the NHL trade deadline is just under a month away, fantasy leagues all over are getting to the point where rosters have to be frozen. If you find you’re lacking in a specific category, we’re here ...

Spike Lee and his production company, 40 Acres and a Mule, has nabbed the rights to "Now the Hell Will Start," a nonfiction book written by Brendan Koerner. Check out the book’s Web site here. The true story follows Herman Perry, a black Army private during World War II who snapped and w...