This is all over the Bloomy and all the big MSM sites, but Dealbreaker echos my sentiments exactly. People actually broke down the doors of a Walmart like blood-thirsty animals, trampled a temporary Walmart worker to death, all to be first in line to buy a TV. That’s right. A television.
Quoted verbatim from Dealbreaker:
You don’t have to vacation [...]

So I was hoping to be the only person in the entire blogosphere to not write about the 2008 Election. But I just can’t resist. Looks like there is going to be a record turnout at the voting stations, which is probably the most newsworthy item of the entire day!
Instead of writing about the outcome, [...]

OK, so I’m getting a bit nervous about the Paulson Bailout vote that happens with the Senate tonight and the House tomorrow. Its become quite clear that the folks in the Senate and the House were scared six ways from Sunday after a 738-point drop in the Dow on Monday, and they’re very unlikely to let [...]

Today’s news has been overwhelmed by underwhelming stories about Consumer Confidence and House Price Appreciation. Zzzz… But one interesting item that caught my eye, and is definitely one for every other “mathlete” out there is this: Wired shares an empirical chart that shows the trend of human speeds for the 100m dash, the race that defines the fastest human [...]

I know that winning an Olympic Medal is an honor that all amateur atheletes aspire to, but I think I’d pass if I was risking being known as the guy who faked being a girl to get the gold. Gardian.co.uk says that there are five “tweeners” heading to the Beijing Olympics. So to all you [...]

Treehugger contemplates the better option: Paper or Plastic shopping bags. I’ve never been a big fan of plastic bags because they always accumulate around the house and they are made with hydro-carbon based materials, which definitely are terrible for the environment. But I haven’t seen a paper bag in any grocery store in the area near [...]

I have to agree with the folks at Techdirt (I don’t remember the last time I didn’t, quite frankly). Ignoring the existence of a resource like Wikipedia is stupid. My guess is that teachers are bitter just bitter because they had to comb through encyclopedias and libraries when they were in the student’s place. The [...]

There was once a time when Canada was safe haven from absurd law suits (like this, and why not, even this), but one event may serve to change that. According to the Globe and Mail, a 12-year old successfully argued in the Quebec Superior Court (not so Superior anymore) that her father was wrongful in [...]