I think my iPhone is a great invention, made even greater by the many software applications that you can download for it.  But as 95 percent of my cable channels demonstrate, even the greatest inventions can be put to utterly stupid uses. Some of the best-selling iPhone apps fall into that category...

TV this week: Battlestar Galactica: "Home: Part 1" - I'm to the point that if an episode has Baltar in it, I kind of wish it would end immediately. The character makes me squirm. Fortunately, he's only in one scene. I wonder if the new Boomer will survive very long in that crowd of hostile humans? T...

DeAngelo Hall has plenty to celebrate, having gone from being waived to among the top paid CBs in a matter of months. As the clock struck midnight Friday morning, NFL free agency has officially begun. Over the next day or so, be prepared for some big news to drop. Already in the morning hours, the R...

Leave it to the Germans to invade Poland or create Titan, the world's strongest industrial robot. They can go either way: One day they are in Krakow, and the next their robot lifts a ton.......

I’ve noted many times that the NFL Combine is the most overrated event in sports when it comes to gauging talent, yet every year I get caught up in what a guy runs or what a guy jumps or what a guy throws (combine studs that probably went a bit high: JaMarcus Russell, Donte Stallworth, and jus...

I know, ladies. I understand the grand conspiracy - you don’t really give a crap about Valentine’s Day. You don’t care about the schmoopy, lovey-dovey stuff. You don’t care about the stuffed animal with a heart that you’ll probably hide in a closet somewhere or donate t...

"Its loss left me reeling and altered the course of my life forever," said Daniel Bennett about the 77 pounds of lizard dung somebody threw out while he was away from his lab. Bennett, a graduate student at Leeds University in England, is working on a Ph.D. and is studying the rare butaan lizard, a ...

Oceanographer Robert Ballard appeared on the Colbert Report last night, and it made for some good watching. Ballard is most known for discovering the Titanic in 1985, but he's got worthwhile things to say about the importance of ocean exploration. My favorite tidbit from this interview? According to...

I’ve tried for the past five minutes to make a pun conflating the words “Cannes” and “Prognostication.” Despite it seeming like they’d be a good match, it’s deceptively difficult. “Cannes-nostication” is the best I could come up with, and that...

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