The franchise is back with a bang, with season 4 debuting last night to 33.5 million viewers, the largest audience of the season thus far, larger than the viewership of the other five networks COMBINED, and the third-highest ratings night of entertainment programming in the Fox network’s history: “I’m as …

The American Idol juggernaut rolls on, losing none of its appeal entering season 4 with 33.5 million viewers, the largest audience of any show this season and the third-highest ratings night of entertainment programming in the Fox network’s history. We, and especially our AI experts Scott Pepper and ZMethos, will …

The awards season is here brightening the gloom of winter, or at least distracting us from it. We are covering the nominations, winners, reactions, performances and, of course, giving our opinions on the Oscars, Grammys, Golden Globes, Rock Hall, Junos and on and on: Oscar Predictions Here are the will …

Talk about people not in touch with themselves: this guy was unaware that he had shot a nail into his brain: A dentist found the source of the toothache Patrick Lawler was complaining about on the roof of his mouth: a four-inch nail the construction worker had unknowingly embedded in …

Since the idiotic Columbus Dispatch isn’t available without charge online, we must resort to AP for details from the Dispatch’s Sunday update on the Damageplan shootings story: Concertgoers who witnessed a fatal nightclub shooting frantically called emergency operators on cell phones and tried to resuscitate the wounded, with some having …

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The cause of severe partisanship? Deep down we are attracted to both candidates in an election and in order to suppress this we emphasize the negative attributes of the one for whom we are not voting – like fans do with sports teams. Interesting theory: PRESIDENT BUSH begins his second …

Computer security experts mi2g say Al Jazeera “is running its computer network like a ‘match-box’ organisation in comparison to its Western peer group”: Al-Jazeera, the at times controversial Arab news satellite channel, has had its computer network compromised by Trojans with built-in mail relay engines since the Arab weekend began …

As recently as, um, today, people as highly placed and respectable as John Kerry were making statements such as this regarding the presidential election: “thousands of people were suppressed in the effort to vote.” “Voting machines were distributed in uneven ways. In Democratic districts, it took people four, five, eleven …

New Yorker writer Seymour Hersh has struck a nerve – again – this time with an article published yesterday about changes in American intelligence oversight and bureaucracy, and covert activity in various countries including Iran: Bush has an aggressive and ambitious agenda for using that control—against the mullahs in Iran …