Filed under: Editor's Picks, Switched Video We spent a week at the 2009 New York Toy Fair last month and came away with a renewed desire to be ten years old again. This episode of our Toy Fair series showcases a new line of Star Wars science toys: Star Wars Science - This new line of toys from Uncle...

Haloscan is eating comments. I dunno why. Be sure that if you are posting a mangum opus that you have composed off-line before you hit "send". secret technorati tags:religion God Jesus Christian...

STEPH DEROSA: FAIRE GAME >>> Who in the hell came up with putting green dye in beer? Like St. Patrick’s day isn’t obnoxious enough with all its green-wearing, shamrock-having, pinch-me-if-I’m-not-into-all-this-shit-as-much-as-you-are attitude. Does America even know what St. Patrick r...

New activism in West Virginia! Via press release: Today, West Virginians announced the formation of a new statewide civil rights organization committed to ensuring fair treatment for all gay and lesbian people in the state. Fairness West Virginia’s mission is to ensure gay people are treated safel...

Maker Faire team held an open audition Sunday at the Tech Museum in San Jose. As usual, we saw lots of interesting things and met some great makers. The auditions are really a small preview of the upcoming Maker Faire. Photos by Kent K. Barnes / kentkb. Here are a few of the highlights: Marc, a teac...

Arts: BorderFest kicks off with food, art and music | borderfest, music, food - TheV247.com. HIDALGO - The aroma of jerk chicken mingled Friday night with the more familiar scents of funnel cake,... Visit our site for links to further information on this article....

Why can Rush Limbaugh talk for hours every day on the radio and no one can call up their local station and demand a chance to respond? Because Reagan's thugs removed an excellent policy that had insured freedom of speech and had prevented companies like GE from buying tones of media outlets and turn...

The ancillary exhibitions organized around this weekend’s Armory Show appear to be mindful of recession economics....

The news has been consistently full of disheartening records of ‘lowest since’ and ‘highest since’ for quite a while.  Unemployment is still rising if not accelerating.   12% of all homes with mortgages are either in default, delinquent, or foreclosure.  Nearly every econ...

If you follow the comic book blogs, there's been a war of words over whether the demise of Scans Daily, which showed some comic book pages and commented on them, is a defeat for the comic book consumer or a victory for the comic book creator. (You can read about it lots of places - I'm picking the n...