Our Mac Diva just signed up with Rock the Vote via Ben and Jerry’s, pledged to vote on November 2 and to encourage five friends to do the same, which she has now done via blog post. Another organization, HeadCount, which sounds like a group of highly motivateed dopers (an …

Fifth grade science teacher David Thon is joining as an “embedded blogger” as a team of WeatherBug meteorologists take part in a five-day-long tornado chase called WeatherBug Storm Chase 2004. The team will set out in search of storms beginning Monday, May 3 in Oklahoma City: David (top right) was …

The tech manufacturers and content providers have been making nice of late: “Content is king,” trumpeted Carleton S. Fiorina, the chairman and chief executive of the Hewlett-Packard Company, as she opened the National Association of Broadcasters convention last week in Las Vegas. The slogan was old, but still sweet to …

It’s decorative art – it’s a text messager: You’re swirling around the ballroom, colourful skirts shimmering under the chandeliers when all of a sudden one of the crystal cascades above your head asks you for the next dance. A surrealist dream? No, a design from the house of Swarovski crystals …

This is seriously bare bones so far: Online technology company CNET Networks Inc. on Monday launched a free digital music service, allowing users to search and download what it said were thousands of songs contributed by independent and unsigned artists. The service, based on CNET’s Download.com Web site has been …

Sorry, couldn’t resist. Actor Jim Caviezel goes from portraying Jesus in The Passion to golf great Bobby Jones: Before Tiger Woods…before Jack Nicklaus, before professional sports became the behemoth industry it is today, shined one of the most gifted natural athletes the world has ever known. A man whose extraordinary …

Damn polar bears and their St Patty’s Day revelry. This is what happens when you drink too much green beer. (actually it’s algae and they bleached them out with hydrogen peroxide – Singapore doesn’t allow green beer)

Prince is taking over five networks for a 30 minute concert special on Wednesday: MTV, MTV2, BET, VH1 and VH1 Classic will simultaneously broadcast a 30-minute Prince concert special on Wednesday at 9 p.m. EDT ….The concert, recorded live last week before an audience at New York’s Webster Hall, includes …

Individually, I think all the stars of Friends are more or less appealing, especially the women (although what the hell is up with Matthew Perry gaining and losing weight like a woman? get it together, pud), but collectively and in character on the show, I have found them well nigh …

I voted for Bill Clinton twice and was happy to do so – he did a lot of things right (NAFTA, welfare reform, race relations) and was lucky as well (the economy). As we all know, it is better to be lucky than to be good. But by the time …