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46,800 people attended today's game. It's the last game the Oakland A's will ever play at the Coliseum before the team moves to Sacramento for three years, and then on to Las Vegas. On the train to the stadium, everyone was wearing an A's shirt. And soon the guy sitting next to me was [ ]
Sudoku puzzles have only one solution. And then directly above an easy-level Sudoku puzzle my local newspaper also published another grid-like math puzzle. "Try to beat today's challenge time..." the instructions begin. "The Challenger," they call it..... But I'm here to tell you this puzzle has no unique solution. (And how I wasted two hours [ ]
Today as president Joe Biden signed the law making Juneteenth a federal holiday, vice president Kamala Harris delivered her own introductory remarks. Visibly choked with emotion, she succinctly summed up the moment's significance. Throughout history, Juneteenth has been known by many names: Jubilee Day, Freedom Day, Liberation Day, Emancipation Day and today, a national [ ]
"One way we still win this election is by turning it into a referendum on China," one Trump campaign advisor bluntly admitted this week to the Los Angeles Times. That's why Trump keeps calling it "the China virus." (He actually crossed out "coronavirus" in one speech and wrote in "China virus" in its place.) It's [ ]
A funny thing happened when I searched Amazon for the soundtrack to Marvel's upcoming superhero blockbuster, Captain Marvel. The first match is, of course, "Captain Marvel Soundtrack" -- but it's by someone named Roguey, selling a 28-second song with the title "Captain Marvel Soundtrack." And that 28-second song is also the only song on a [ ]
It all started in a desert. In a vast landscape with weird buttes and ancient Indian petroglyphs, a friend described a strange film-maker (and local legend) with his own weird story about selling videos on Amazon.com. Will Chase is a deejay, an artist, a Burning Man devotee and a former schoolteacher with a DUI. And [ ]
"We take misinformation seriously," Facebook's CEO posted Saturday. Right next to two very obvious pieces of misinformation... Note the lying advertisers to the right of his status update? (No, Hugh Hefner isn't dead, and no, Tiger Woods hasn't left the PGA forever.) Those ads don't even lead to news stories. The first one leads to [ ]
Image inspired by the Cyrus Borg_A minifig Scammers pretending to be from Dell computers phoned me in November but these scammers knew things about me. They identified the model number for both my Dell computers, and knew every problem that I'd ever called Dell about. None of this information was ever posted online, so [ ]
After more than a decade of development, 61-year-old Larry Wall stunned the world by releasing a new version of his 1987 programming language.
We're big fans of good old-fashioned hedonism and throughout centuries, pleasure-lovers have sung the praises of wine, women, song. But here's an interesting historical diagram which tells the remarkable story of how wine itself was almost lost to all of humanity! Via: Presented by: Mocavo - Genealogy Search
No. But this is going to be a really short article without some additional context... Those cute little girls selling cookies around your neighbor are delivering junk-food snacks that are astonishingly unhealthy. ( Just four Samoas have 50% of your recommended saturated fat intake for the day... ) To be fair, the Girl Scouts do [ ]
It didn't take a government shutdown to eliminate the government's healthcare exchange, just some overloaded web servers! A historic moment in technology failures that begs for a little sassy commentary. ! By Lou Cabron
The stories you haven't heard about the former star of Walt's Disney Mickey Mouse Club -- including the death threat on her wedding day, Annette's unusual connection to Devo, her reaction to one of Howard Stern's jokes, and a secret visit to a porn theatre in the 1970s! By Destiny
Besides reviewing movies, Roger Ebert lived a life filled with delightful moments, including brushes with Oprah Winfrey, Bill O'Reilly, Russ Meyer, and of course, Gene Siskel. By Destiny
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Marketplace Morning Edition reports that it's the end of all sex as we know it. Unless their transcriber just made a very big mistake... By Lou Cabron
1. The Greatest Story Ever Told I'm a fan and there's one song Davy Jones should be remembered by. In 1986, the 41-year-old former teen idol recorded his own secret anthem. I think of it as his personal "My Way" an original song about a life spent in show business, where (more than [ ]
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo shattered publishing records as both a book and an e-book. But one of Amazon's top-selling Kindle bloggers reveals the dark secrets that haunted its author. By Me and My Kindle
Why the prolific author sees sex, lies, videotape and zombies in our dystopian, new media future and what he's learned today about violence, gender, paranormal phenomenon, and WikiLeaks. By Destiny
R.U. Sirius remembers when he recorded an album for Trent Reznor's label as part of an aborted six-album deal for the world's first virtual reality band. By Lou Cabron