Tweet What is wrong with white people!?!  This needs to filed under creepy and weird.  I know that it has a practical medical application, but come on!  It reminds me of that South Park episode where Kyle gets a “negroplasty” to make himself black and taller. Wired Magazine explores this weirdness: A drug that stimulates [...]

Tweet In response to Charles P. Pierce’s razing of the Arizona Cardinals in The Slate this morning, I offer the following counterargument: It is not a fluke or a disgrace that the Cardinals are in the Super Bowl.  Ex-Jets and Ex-Chiefs head coach Herman Edwards famously said,  “We play to win the game.” And that’s [...]

Tweet Folks, it’s a small corporately sponsored world after all… in Yuanlin, Taiwan the Hau Sheng Hospital has taken to covering nearly every surface possible with Hello Kitty.  Now before you jump to the conclusion, as I did, that it was some sort of Hello Kitty trying to take over the world scenario, think again.   [...]

Tweet Amid all the speeches and media commentary that will be bandied about today, I found these pretty amusing: CNN: What’s it going to be like for you on Inauguration Day? Chris Rock: It’ll be a cool day. It’s weird. I’ve never watched an inauguration. I’ve never watched anyone get sworn in. You know, it’s [...]

Tweet Here it is the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and one day before the inauguration of Barack Obama and what’s on my mind?  Robots.  Ok, not robots per se, but machines that have been given nascent human qualities.  Daniel Roth’s essay in this month’s Wired asks a stunning question– As machines become more like [...]

Tweet Yes, we can… build a sweet Detroit ride for the commander-in-chief.   Apparently the Secret Service commissions a new limo every four years, so that it has all of the latest security bells and whistles. Joanne Krell, the General Motors spokesperson added,  “It’s entirely fitting that an American president is in a great American brand,” [...]

Tweet Reuters reported today that: The U.S. Army, struggling to ensure it has enough manpower as it fights wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, is wooing young Americans with videogames, Google maps and simulated attacks on enemy positions from an Apache helicopter. Departing from the recruiting environment of metal tables and uniformed soldiers in a drab [...]

Tweet I don’t know why, but I’m fascinated by piracy on the high seas.  Its not that I advocate violence or theft,  its just I find the audacity of it in this day in age, amazing.  They’ve got the First World and their insurance companies freaking out.  The US, the Chinese, the Europeans all have [...]

Tweet The following e-mail conversation took place on January 9th roughly between the hours 8am and 2pm.   It began as a rant on the premiere episode of VH1′s Rock of Love Bus, but then shifted to a discussion about celebrity between myself and Geppetto Jones. Geppetto @ 8:32am What a skank fest!   All the Amy [...]