How many musicians can you match with their real names? 1 Alecia Moore 1 Afrika Bambaataa 2 Alicia Augello Cook 2 Alice Cooper 3 Annie Mae Bullock 3 Alicia Keys 4 Anthony Ray 4 Barry Manilow 5 Arnold George Dorsey I 5 Beck 6 Artis Ivey Jr. 6 Billie Holliday 7 Barry Alan Pincus 7 Billy Idol 8 Bek Dav...

When the man in the red suit gives your child a present, you call him Santa Claus. If he then pisses behind the Christmas tree, you call him something else....

"...but actually it's about a whole range of other ethical and moral issues, from the food we eat to what we do with feces." It's Wim Delvoye's "Cloaca No. 5," a "'machine/sculpture' that recreates the phases of human digestion, from chewing to defecation," on display at the Université du Québec Ã...

1. A good way to improve a shitty mood is to "take your kid" to the petting zoo set up in the parking lot of the big shopping center and let a couple of deer and half a dozen goats chew on your hem while a llama nudges your ear. Having a wallaby grab your forearm and a pot-bellied pig rub up against...

Have you ever had a baby by your side when you were studying for a law school exam? I had one -- out of the frame -- when I posed for this photograph. The baby -- my older son, John -- was less than 2 months old, so he took no interest in my ordeal and went about his baby-business as usual. But mayb...

Watching Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer tonight, as we reach the climactic scene, in which everyone realizes that only Rudolph can guide the sleigh through the blizzard. Rudolph's father, Dasher, if you recall, had originally tried to hide his son's nose; now he declares, "I knew that nose would be ...

[Dave Birch] Over on the Digital Money Blog, we've been talking about the well-known MiFare security issue. We're interested in it over there because MiFare is used for things such as Oyster cards and there's an overlap between contactless cash replacement and contactless transit systems. From this ...

If you ever find yourself needing an official corporate quote from CBS, the man who'll give it to you is Gil Schwartz, the Tiffany Network's top flack. And no matter how you feel about their news anchor, you have to give CBS credit: they're the only major media company to have a top PR person who wr...

Instapundit links to this Denver Post story about 2 male students who distributed a parody — "The Monthly Bag" — of the feminist newsletter — "The Monthly Rag." Here's a PDF of the 1-page flier (via Ace). This was a problem: Did You Know...?? The Barrett .50 Caliber sniper rifle has an effecti...

[Dave Birch] There are a great many advantages to smart cards as a platform for digital identity -- they're smart (ie, they have a microprocessor in them) for one thing -- but there's one huge drawback. They need readers. Now you might reasonably assume that no-one would countenance launching a smar...