Nomophobia, or "no-mobile-phobia," sounds as stupid as luposlipaphobia. At least the latter"the fear of being chased by wolves on slick kitchen linoleum while wearing ...
Ghosts were the first thing I remember frightening me as a child. Arthur C. Clarke once said, "Ghosts are at least as real as dreams." This is the most intelligent ...
I recently joined this cool new social-networking site called “Facebook” because my publishers told me I had to use it to promote my book. I was reluctant to join because ...
A lady recently asked Barack Obama why the government is issuing and extending H-1B visas—that is, guest-worker visas for any occupation “which requires the theoretical ...
The F-35 is the latest marvel brought to us by the military-industrial complex. It’s presently years behind deployment schedule. It is also the most expensive military ...
The man in the Apple store lied to me. He LIED TO ME. But then, I knew he would. I hate the Apple Store. My kids, of course, love it. The stuff in there is so sleek, so stylish, ...
Tomorrow marks the closing of perhaps the most magnificent period of human achievement in all of Earth’s lengthy span. On Friday, America’s final space shuttle shall rocket ...
The Beast's arrival in Europe brought comparisons to the Hindus" Juggernaut, the giant sacred conveyance that carried the idol of Jagannath, transcendental cause of the ...
The Beast’s arrival in Europe brought comparisons to the Hindus’ Juggernaut, the giant sacred conveyance that carried the idol of Jagannath, transcendental cause of the ...
I looked out my bedroom window last night and saw Will Smith stepping into a 1967 Ford Galaxie. He was leaving the old-timey diner across the street with Tommy Lee Jones because ...
Every company"no matter how trendy or cool, no matter how many Goth girls on rollerskates they employ, no matter how many simpering genius autistics in silver pants they have ...
Upon superficial inspection, still-living superstar hacker Julian Assange and long-dead commie-stalker Joseph McCarthy seem like natural-born enemies and political polar ...
The perverse coupling of surveillance and exhibitionism forms a cornerstone of American technocracy. Most Americans, be they liberals or libertarians, are unnerved by government ...
At a conference last month in Long Beach, Cailfornia, Blaise Aguera y Arcas, architect of Microsoft's Bing Maps, demonstrated a host of exciting features for the mapping site, ...