I just returned from a concert with the rock group Cracker, a band whose music I’ve listened to and admired for many years. Tickets for the show were a birthday gift, and I couldn’t imagine a better way to celebrate.
Cracker was first formed as Camper Van Beethoven in 1984, the year they released a song [...]

It was a wise man who said that a picture is worth a thousand words, but a song is worth a million.
Maybe he was a songwriter, or maybe he was just having some fun with Last.fm and Dizzler—two music sites that are part of the Spacelocker selection of networks.
If you haven’t tried them yet, wait [...]

Facebook can be a comfort when you see that your high-school sweetheart is married and divorced (twice), has two kids and another on the way, and still sports a mullet in the finest David Bowie tradition.
Bebo can help you remember the birthdays of all your old roommates, even if you can’t remember anything else about [...]

First it was the recession, then it was the changing habits of a fickle viewing public, and now it’s the Internet’s turn to take a swipe at TV as we know it. Local stations, national networks, and cable and satellite service providers, tune in: ZillionTV is on the net.
The small US company launched at the [...]

Although he usually studies volcanic eruptions, Georg Steinhauser also has his finger on another hot-button topic. A hot belly button topic: why lint migrates to your navel.
Dr. Steinhauser, a chemist at the Vienna University of Technology, recently published his paper on belly button fluff in the journal Medical Hypotheses. The following is a reasonably accurate [...]

In 2004, Duke University in North Carolina gave 1600 freshmen free iPods. Tempting enrollment incentive, or visionary application of must-have mp3 player as an educational tool?
Five years later it appears that, by promoting iPods as cutting-edge educational technology, Duke Administration was really onto something.
The journal Computers & Education recently published a study claiming that podcasts [...]

His stylish red scarf and orange-tinted hair blow in the breeze as Kim Rae-in, a member of the paparazzi posse, cruises his beat-up motorcycle through the mean streets of Seoul, South Korea on the prowl for the next Kodak moment.
Stalking starlets? Pop singers? Politicians? Not a chance. Kim’s out to get the serious money-makers—pictures [...]

Every teen knows that flirting can be great fun. But it’s a lot more than just playing games. It’s a universal, functional, and essential element of the survival of humanity as a whole. If not for flirting, we wouldn’t be here now, hanging around the locker, swapping notes on technique. So without further delay, let’s [...]

“Ah, look at all the lonely people,” sang the Beatles in “Eleanor Rigby”.
In recent years, more Canadians are saying they have a maximum of two friends—no more than two. And people of all age groups, with the exception of women under 25, are saying this. Can it be true that working longer hours and [...]

Birds do it, bees do it, and now even educated geeks do it.
And what about you? Desperate for the key that will unlock the secrets of writing the perfect text message that will be sure to attract The One? Now you can learn to flirt in cyberspace on every digital medium you can imagine. But [...]