You’ll want to read neo-neocon today. She’s got quotes by Lenin and thoughts on Dostoevsky and yes, it’s all relevant, relevant, relevant. The quotes from Lenin are chilling and you will be able to relate all of them to what is happening in America, today, even though President Oba...

Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Programming, OpEd Got a press release from Bravo the other day that says they've not only given the green light for a third season of Shear Genius, they also have a new reality show coming up titled Double Exposure. I'm not even going to tell you what world the show...

Remember when you were bored back in college, and you would bet your friends that they wouldn't do idiotic things, like eat dog food or run around campus naked in the dead of winter? No? Neither do we. But imagine for a moment that you had an experience like that. Now think of a bet that falls on th...

How can you think of things that no-one else thinks of? The answer is by deliberately taking a different approach to the issue from everyone else. There are dominant ideas in every field. The brilliant thinker purposefully challenges those dominant ideas in order to think innovatively. Albert Szent-...

When I first arrived to Tokyo, I noticed that, come the end of winter, weather forecast screens (in trains, on TV, wherever…) would start adding an extra line under the main sun/cloud/water-drop pictograms. Since the new icons usually depicted lovely little pink flowers or trees blowing in the...

Rachel Lucas. I cannot tell you how much I am enjoying the chronicles of her adventures in England - the language difficulties, the way things explode on her, the way she charitably puts up with British Telephone until she doesn’t, anymore, the the beautiful surprises, the lack of salsa, near ...

Anyone who knows me probably knows how I feel about Crisco®. (First, it's hydrogenated, "trans" fat of the man-made kind. I consider hydrogenated, artificial trans-fats unfit for consumption by people or pets, because of many deleterious health effects. Heart disease, wrinkles, aging from the insid...

Friday Morning News Roundup I continue to be amazed at how Senator Ronald Burris has gone from political genius to a national embarrassment. Now it appears that former Governor Rod Blagojevich hired Ronald Burris, II , as senior counsel, for the state’s Housing Authority in mid-September. This...

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Name: The Scene Quick Pitch: The Scene serves as t...

According to a single sentence that immediately made several film fans wet their seat, Production Weekly’s Twitter feed upped the news ante with this: Michel Gondry to direct Seth Rogen in “Green Hornet.” And that’s it. A single sentence. And yet, Production Weekly is almost ...