As 2006 comes to a close, I wanted to make mention of some of the notables we lost during the past twelve months. Each entertained us, informed us, or somehow made us think about things in new ways. This is not a complete list, but I think it gives a good sample of the legendary talents that took …

Some people make new year’s resolutions every January 1st, and others swear them off. But whether you made serious resolutions or not, there may still be some things left unchecked on your 2006 “To Do” list. That’s the topic of this week’s Sunday Seven, posted just minutes before the start of the new year so that you had …

As the clock ticks away toward the start of 2007, I thought I’d take a quick trip down memory lane with a look at the best post of each month of 2006. In a few of the months, the competition was stiff when it came to deciding which might have been my “best” offering.
(Not because I thought they were …

On this date in 1956, popular emcee and producer Ralph Edwards turned over the hosting duties of his hit television show Truth or Consequences to a relatively-unknown talent he’d heard on a regional west coast radio show. That young host, just 33 at the time, was Bob Barker.
Truth or Consquences was mostly a stunt show in which contestants were …

Found on Shelly’s Cyber Chocolate:
My Cereal Personality Is…
Stars CerealNobody remembers you as a cereal, but man you were styling in that hat! A billygoat never look so good as on your cereal box! Your choice of caramel flavoring is an interesting one, but then again kids eat glue!
Find Out Your Cereal! Question 1: What type of cereal did you …

I was visiting someone else’s site on a different service just before Christmas when I noticed an unusual web banner ad. It featured a handsome guy in a white bathrobe. He was holding two red Christmas tree ball ornaments just below waist level.
The ad eventually ended on this frame:

As if the product’s name wasn’t clear enough, the pair …

Last week, I asked the writers out there whether or not you’ve ever dreamed that you were a character in a story you were writing at the time.
The majority of people, 86%, say they haven’t. Of them, two-thirds admit that they would like to. Only 14% say they have, but add that their dream didn’t change anything about …

Much of the country is under an arctic chill. So rather than go outside, why not stay indoors with some comfort food and a new list of questions!
But first, Jude of “My Way” was first to play last week. Congratulations, Jude!
Here are this week’s “Saturday Six” questions. Either answer the questions in a comment here, or put …

Over at The Blue Voice, Dave asks an interesting question about people who call others “Conspiracy Theorists:”
“So why is it the minute someone suggests that the people who own and control EVERYTHING–the land, the labor, the resources–might pursue their best interests at our expense they are labeled a “[Conspiracy Theorist]?” Instantly we are lumped in with the crop circle …

Some political bloggers on the left have been working overtime, scouring through declassified transcripts from thirty-year-old government documents and old photo archives of President Gerald Ford posing with notables from the time of his presidency, trying to do anything they can to find fault with him, as if they believe that he will return from the dead long enough to …

The only American president ever to reach the White House without being elected to the office, Gerald Ford, has died at age 93.
The news came late tonight from his family.
Ford wasn’t a great president, but I think he was a good president, and more importantly, a good man. He was sworn in on the heels of the unprecedented resignation …

The first recorded Christmas celebration on December 25th took place in Rome in the year 336, which means that today would mark the 1,670th Christmas Day.
I hope yours was a merry one, whether you celebrated the day or not.

This past week, we lost one of the greats in the world of animated cartoons, Joseph Barbera. The list of the characters created by Barbera and his partner William Hanna is lengthy. You can see it for yourself here. That little bit of reading should prepare you for this week’s question.
But first, Jude, of “My Way” was …

This Christmas Eve, I must share with you two posts I’ve found elsewhere that talk about the meaning of Christmas from a non-Christian point of view.
I don’t point these out from the standpoint of a Christian trying to show the world how wrong these points of view are; quite the contrary, I point them out to show that people with …

As she wraps up the work on her seventh and final Harry Potter novel, author J.K. Rowling admits that she never dreamed about her characters until recently. “I had an epic dream in which I was, simultaneously, Harry and the narrator,” she recently wrote on her website, according to this AP article.
So that got me thinking…
I don’t recall ever …

I’ve noticed something recently that I’m suddenly seeing more and more. When I visit a blog that has been abandoned by its original owner and whose address has been “captured” by spam businesses, I’m met with a screen that consists a blow-up of one of the word verification graphics. It’s pictured to the right.
It makes me wonder whether …

I wish you all the merriest of Christmases and the happiest of New Years! Here’s a holiday-themed edition of the Saturday Six.
But first, Nichole of “My Two Cents” was first to play last week for the second week in a row! Congratulations again , Nichole!
Here are this week’s “Saturday Six” questions. Either answer the questions in a …

NBC is reportedly considering adding a fourth hour of Today, according to TVSquad.
Three hours, apparently, isn’t enough. And it’s hard to count that third hour, considering that most of the “hard news” content is done by the end of hour two, leaving the 9am hour stuck with fashion, cooking, concerts and features.
“Matt and Meredith won’t host it though, and …