MASTERS OF THEIR DOMAIN I don’t want to really review the show itself, but more the change it made in our world. If I was to focus on individual events in the 9 year span of the show, I could be here for days. We all have our favourite moments and characters. Far be it from me to tell you whic...

Last year, Madonna and then “happily” married husband Guy Ritchie dressed up and celebrated the Jewish Festival of Purim together … as you may recall, Maddy dressed up as French chanteuse Edith Piaf and Guy dressed as European comic book character Asterix . This year, Purim came a ...

Putting a price on anything is not an obvious process. All those pricing textbooks that you read are only good enough to tell you what to avoid. Given that an engineering education and a geek-desi background often biases you towards expecting logic in everything, I am sure many were horrified to lea...

You know, sing along to the tune of “Video Killed the Radio Star”. Lone Star Ball makes the case that the premise of several Seinfeld episodes wouldn’t work today. The existence of cell phones reduces the number of loony situations any one group of friends can get into. While IR...

The 90s were a decade in which hecklerspray spent most of its time picking food off of dead cats under parental supervision. The things we were picking off them were typically ice cream, maraschino cherries and large dollops of whipped cream. Our father was a dinnerware-themed taxidermist, you see, ...

Bob Sutton: The Enron Code of Ethics: Something Every Boss Should Read - My hypothesis is that the longer a code of ethics in a company, the more likely they are too be sleazeballs. As I've heard my father-in-law say many times, when people talk about ethics and morals more than seems necessary,...

Thrilla in vanilla: Michael Jackson's press conference announcing some London shows he'll soon cancel was not exactly a thriller. See the video Scanner Emily shared yesterday. Dr. Sanjay Gupta has decided to turn down a job in the Obama Administration. Hero of the day: the nurse who bought a...

What happens when actor Michael Richards meets The Blacks or Krazee-Eyez Killa? Talk about Trial and Error. I’m pretty sure we’ll be satisfied by the results this fall, as the four cast members of Seinfeld are reuniting for multiple episodes of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm . While th...

Just a quick wrap up on some of the film news from the past month. “Waltz With Bashir� won big in France and at the Golden Globes, and the film’s director, Ari Folman, fought off a thief in Paris who tried to steal his Cesar trophy. But “Waltz� failed to receive an Oscar [...]...

  Burt Reynolds, Dan Aykroyd, Donald Trump, Gene Simmons, Jerry Seinfeld, Leslie Nielsen, Peter Sellers and Steve Martin have all appeared on the cover of Playboy. So which bearded (!!!) gentleman will be Playboy's next play boy? Seth Rogen: We'd totally do him. And so we will absolutel...