I just don’t know! Do I want a good video recorder to take video of the baby, or not? I have a DV cam and we’ve hardly used it in the last 5 years. I have it hooked up for skype in the livingroom with a USB PolyCom and the big LCD.
I looked at the […]

The marketing gurus at Dr. Pepper think they can have their cake and eat it too! If, as anticipated, Axl Rose can not complete his opus: Chinese Democracy, 17 years after beginning work on it — they lose nothing. If Axl surprises us all — and delivers this mythic rock and roll epic — every […]

Seems Belstaff, an Italian clothes-maker, decided to name a line after Steve McQueen and use his image to promote it. Perhaps asking the family would have been a good idea.
Stealing from the King of Cool: not cool.
Chadwick McQueen and The Terry McQueen Testamentary Trust say in a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan […]

Ah the power of TV! Seems a few kids discovered a buried parachute in just the right section of Southwest Washington after seeing a program on infamous plane hijacker D.B. Cooper.
Children playing outside their home near Amboy found the chute’s fabric sticking up from the ground in an area where their father had been grading […]

It makes logical sense, but seems lame. The Michigan State Attorney General hath decreed that barbers may not serve a courtesy beer to their clients for concomitant consumption without a license to serve liquor. The barber claims this is an old time custom and will pursue his right to serve beer during a trim.
“I’m glad […]

Asylum.com put together this Top 10 weirdest pizza toppings—it’s an eye opener—including fried eggs, squid ink, ketchup, rice, chocolate, pickles. There is even a combo pie with caviar, lobster and creme fraiche that goes for $1,000.
My favorite is the “Happy Meal Pizza.” Take a look: it has two cheeseburgers, fries and McNuggets. The […]

Personally, I haven’t ever enjoyed a bar that was so crowded I couldn’t sidle up the bartender in the first place, but it’s not difficult to see why this would be dangerous in all the good ways. [via Peter W Knox] (Thanks, Richard!)

Flavius Josephus, or Yosef Ben Matityahu (as he was known in more Hebraic circles) was a well known philosopher/historian in the 1st century AD. Famous for such works as Antiquities of the Jews and Jewish Wars, Josephus also left us a clue… where to find King Herod’s tomb.
Around the bier were Herod’s sons and a […]

I don’t really get why this guy had his suitcase open out on the field long enough for a rattle snake to climb on board but hey — it made for entertainment.

So this weekend I hit a goal that I hadn’t been entirely sure I was ever going to reach: for the first time since I was a teenager, I officially weighed in under 200 pounds. I’ve never been happier with the way my body looks, although I’ve still got a small gut, soft, saggy tits […]

Communal bathing isn’t part of American culture, but after a trip this weekend to a Russian bath house in Manhattan, I’m swayed that it should be.
I’ve been fighting off the tail end of a cold for a few days, so thought the steam and sauna might knock out the rest of the gunk. Or at […]

Saw this linked off of Things from Another World. Reminds me of the John Rhys-Davies intro films to the Indiana Jones Adventure at Disneyland.