Out of Sight, Like a Pumpkin

Larry "Bud" Melman, AKA Calvert DeForest, dead at 85.

In today's Sunday comics, two strips decided to call out their competition for ridicule (though in the case of Pearls Before Swine , the...

Eiji Funakoshi, dead at 84. It's been awhile since I've seen the original Gamera ; I think Funakoshi made a bigger impression on m...

I went gambling with a friend of mine last night, and when I picked him up, he offered me a bottled tea. To my surprise, it was a plastic b...

Two of my favorites, together at last: Willie Nelson on The Colbert Report : For the record, I had a Nelson/Colbert taste-test the other ...

A preview of This American Life 's new cable TV show:

Cryptographers defeat the Amazing Randi. I was a bit confused when I saw this article's headline, as I couldn't understand why the...

Wii friend codes to be unique for each game. Boo on you, Nintendo.

A few comic strips that amused me recently: No time for poetry Whistling past the graveyard Living life over again Too close to home Wha...

Al D'Amato, poker lobbyist. I never thought I'd live to say it, but, God bless you, Mr. D'Amato.

In uploading a picture of my Mii for the previous post, I realized I had a bunch of photos on my camera from my vacation last September, wh...

The above is a crude photographic representation of my Mii, the avatar that represents me on my Wii . A fairly accurate representation, I ...

I reported a while back that You Don't Know Jack was back, in the form of a daily "Dis or Dat" question (at least, I thought ...

Major problems reported with Blockbuster Online. Apparently, some users haven't received a new movie after two weeks. I intend to sub...

John Inman, dead at 71.

Elana James 's new CD was released officially last month. I had most of the songs from a sampler she was selling when she was in town l...

Captain America, dead at 65.

A Shockwave animation of The People's Mario

New royalty fees threaten to destroy internet radio. I was relieved by this article's assurance that last.fm, as a British entity, is ...

The Stardust is scheduled for implosion March 13th. This site has been documenting the demolition of the legendary casino, and features a v...