Tweet Word broke today that TLC will re-launch its reality hit Jon & Kate Plus Eight in November. The new show comes in the wake of the messy split between Jon and Kate Gosselin, the Pennsylvania parents of eight children.  The new version of the show will focus on Kate Gosselin’s life as a single [...]

Tweet Last March, Clare Irby a descendant of the Guinness brewing family was on a Kingfisher Airlines flight from Bangalore to London. After a reported ten glasses of wine, the single mom was too busy to take care of her son who cried, ran around the plane and who went for some time with a [...]

Tweet So I caught the Emmys last night.  I haven’t really watched them in a while but I love Neil Patrick Harris.  He did not disappoint.  He was dapper as could be.  The musical number opening the show was cute and clever and not too long. Usually nothing much happens at the Emmys.   It’s no [...]

Tweet A drunk French teenager narrowly escaped death last week after falling asleep on a railway track and slumbering undisturbed as a high-speed train speed over him. The 19-year old, whose name was not released, remained fast asleep face down on a stretch of track near Saint Nolff in southern Brittany, as the Quimper to [...]

Tweet Turns out that tall people lead better lives, so say scientists that polled more than 454,000 adults.  These folks were polled via telephone and asked about their height and how they viewed their lives.  Reporting in the journal Economics and Human Biology, the scientists found that taller people judged their lives more favorably and [...]

Tweet For the first time in many years of watching and all or at least bits of the VMAs almost since their inception, I actually enjoyed all of the music. Some of the performers were old enough to drink and all could sing to some degree. The fact that I actually recognized all of them [...]

Tweet Things are not getting better all the time.  Why?  Because of lousy customer service and lack of competition.  Case in point, a group called Unlimited IT played David to Telkom’s Goliath.  Fed up with lousy service and stunningly slow bandwidth speeds from Telkom,  Unlimited IT proved that it was faster for them to send [...]

Tweet There maybe a world wide recession going on but that doesn’t stop people from going all out for their weddings.  Got a few million dollars to burn?  Then check out this list of this list of the world’s 12 most expensive wedding acts as compiled by the U.K.’s Living TV. 1. Rolling Stones – [...]

Tweet The big news of the month occurred yesterday, with Disney coughing up $4 billion for Marvel Entertainment.  Its not just the comics obviously, its the 7,000 characters in the library that lend themselves to licensing of bedsheets, movies, and videogames.  I was laughing as the financial press kept stressing that with this acquisition that [...]