This is a bit off-topic but everyone deserves a little party every day.  What do you get when you combine The Hottest Band in the World with the most annoying social...

Filed under: Cellphones The tried-and-true Hamburger phone is still our fav (what, there a problem with that?), but Marc Schömann's baton-styled concept phone is...

Scoble just published a post (Has/How/Why tech blogging has failed you), which sums up how a lot of people feel about blogging in general. Like Scoble, we should question...

A story has been circulating the last few days (hat tip to Ferg) regarding some dubious racist antics going on in China during the buildup to the Olympic Games:Bar owners...

I blogged back during the London Mayoral elections about Lib Dem candidate Brian Paddick using Twitter as a tool for a virtual Q&A session with the electorate. ...

First there was going to be a status of forces agreement between the US and Iraq, which would be ratified by the Iraqi parliament and would grant the US long-term bases....

As Barack Obama prepares to visit the city of Ramallah in the West Bank, a Palestinian artist sketches Obama among his other portraits of Jesus, Hamas PM Ismail Haniyeh,...

Granted, it was 15 years ago, but our memory of our first-year civil procedure class is that we spent a full three months talking about statutes of limitations....

As we noted yesterday, Imam Siraj Wahhaj (named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing) is planning a series of subway train...

...the empirical analysis finds that cars that were acquired used required no more maintenance expenditures than those that were acquired new of a similar age.Here is the...

Small businesses in the US are struggling right now. Any edge or any hope that can be found is a welcome change from the continued onslaught of economic news around...

Back in January I wrote about something called "Mylol.net" - a teen dating site that gave off some real weird vibes (actually, I first wrote about it waaaaay back in...

Another title for this one might be “Jawdropper of the Day.” At Drudge: NYT REJECTS MCCAIN’S EDITORIAL; SHOULD ‘MIRROR’ OBAMA Mon Jul 21...

Mike has a fascinating post categorizing many of the most viral videos of our time. When a field gains steam, it seems as though everything is sort of random or magical...

Go read Chris Messina on location-aware services. He makes an obvious point but it’s nicely written - location’s about to tip, and in a year or so...

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Image# 6317797 Tough economic times often bring out the greatest creativity in marketers. Case in point: Brothel offers customers gas...

I’m not usually a big fan of these online quiz thingies, but the Pew Research Center has one that’s actually kind of interesting: The Pew News IQ Quiz. Not...

The Pew Research Center has a 12 question multiple choice test, with percentile grading, and averages by gender, level of education, and age. Sorry. No breakdown by party...

Do a google search for the term “budget“. Budget Rent-a-Car is #1 natural result. Look at the title tag on the screenshot below. It says,...

Every once in a while, the blogs are dead, or A-list is dead meme rears its head, as it's done recently. Don't believe a word of it! Blogs aren't going anywhere. And...