In Part 1 of the Post M3 Build review, I focused on the desktop experience and what is changing there.  I also focused on pre-M3 builds and more theor ... View all

Artist Damien Hirst sets auction record - News.com.auBRITISH artist Damien Hirst has set a new record after a two-day sale of his work fetched some ... View all

The top 10 movies at the North American box office - Reuters"The Dark Knight," "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2" and contemporary disney resor ... View all

The Boyle interview generated a LOT of comments.  I've been taking a hammerin'...  Cool, at least, we're all talking.  Amongst the talk there has been ... View all

CHAPTER XXI: WINCHESTER (CONT'D) During these sad days, Anna Lefroy had written to her grandmother at Chawton, offering to go to her. Mrs. Austen an ... View all

With the advent of globalization, people are growing increasingly aware of what everyone else is doing everywhere else around the world. No longer ar ... View all

I’ve made one more revolution around the sun. The last day of January was my last day as a fifty year old. Marlene made a nice dinner. Instead of a bi ... View all

I'm blogging "little bits," one each day until the book I'm currently working on is done and handed off to the printer. Each day I will post one, simp ... View all

Here’s an object lesson: Take an egg, hold it aloft, let go, and watch what happens. Last year (2008) will go down in history as the year that our Hum ... View all

According to the book, Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables, by Nancy Bubel:"Mature green tomatoes will ripen in 25 to 28 days ... View all

As long as I live, I will never tire of hearing sermons that declare the total sovereignty of God. And so it is that I find myself greatly blessed by ... View all

First, I'd pay a lot of money to hear how a court opinion finding that sodomy is a constitutional right could be made to sound reasonable. But the cal ... View all

First, the Times raised former California Gov. Pete Wilson's "precipitous slide" in the polls after he supported Proposition 187 in 1994, which denied ... View all

Word has it that it's a whopping 19 degrees outside at the moment, and while that may not feel particularly balmy to you, it is in fact 39 degrees war ... View all

Last day of NaBlo '08, to which I say, "Whoo!" and also "Whew." Actually, truth be told, I didn't find the post-every-day nonsense all that hard this ... View all

Unlike your fridge, this column isn't packed with leftovers from last week. This column won't start turning yellow or dripping on your floor ... View all

<h4>Hello Neumann!</h4> <p>This past weekend the Neumann Knights notched their name into the ECAC West discussion with an impressive ... View all

“Half of Asia – China, Nippon, Tibet, Bukhara, Khiva, Persia – belongs to us if we want... Lay new roads into Asia or search out old ones, if only in ... View all

Decades of Darkness Interlude #7: Sharing All The WorldA bit of a change of pace for this post...* * *“For generation after generation of mankind’s in ... View all

“An extensive empire must be supported by a refined system of policy and oppression: in the centre, an absolute power, prompt in action and rich in re ... View all