The nicest part about November 1st is that it means that for the most part, it’ll be another year before I have to battle with the word Halloween again.  For some reason, I almost always misspell it as Hallowwen, then I get the little red dotted line from the spell-checker, and I have to go back and correct it.  I don’t know why I have this knack for spelling it wrong, but it happens almost every time I write it, even when I know it’s coming.  So maybe now I …

Apple’s new 27-inch iMac is stunning, says Compuworld.  Apple sent the site one of its newer widescreen versions for review purposes.  How do I get on that list??

An eager collector has paid $15,000 for hair that is purported to be that of Elvis Presley.  Note the keyword purported.  This hair supposedly was swept up from the floor beneath the King of Rock and Roll way back in 1958, when he got his famous military haircut upon joining the Army.  If this had happened a few years back, with our current level of celebrity obsession, I’d be a lot more likely to believe this hair is the real thing.  But 51 years ago, we as a society just …

There are some unfortunate things in this high-tech world.  The ability to add annotations to videos posted on YouTube, which appear as annoying little pop-up boxes that are never as entertaining as their authors seem to think they are would be one of them.  The ability on Facebook for friends to recommend that you become “fans” of other groups is another.  A friend of mine just recommended to me that I should become a fan of a local plumbing company.  While I have respect for plumbers, and the dirty work …

Good grief!  There’s actually a Snuggie for Dogs! I am not making this up! I think that might be enough to make mine stop associating with me!

As if a total lack of athletic ability weren’t enough, here’s a story that explains why golf is just not a game I could get into:  it involves those irritating little “water hazards” that the game seems impossible to play without.  No one ever said that those water hazards aren’t “hazardous” for a reason:  a 75-year-old player found out the hard way!  Ouch!  I hope doctors can undo the damage.

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A reporter on CNN was interrupted by an unruly mob of protesters on Capital Hill during a live shot. These people say they’re being ignored by the media at every turn, yet when the media shows up to cover the fact that they’re there, they start shouting and chanting so loudly that the reporter can’t actually do a standup. Are they proud of themselves for acting like two-year-olds? (No offense to any well-behaved two-year-olds in my audience, of course.)

The Gatlin Brothers have a new single, and the title is “Johnny Cash is Dead and His House Burned Down.” I am not making this up.

The avalanche of demands that Mark Sanford resign as governor of South Carolina continues to grow.  Yesterday, there were 61 Republican lawmakers who sent a letter to Sanford requesting that he step down.  This afternoon, the state’s Republican Party has made the same request.  Thirty-one out of 46 of the state’s committee members voted to send that message.  Sanford held yet another press conference today, saying yet again that he has no plans to step down.  He wants to wait until the ethics investigation against him is over, because he’s …

Come on, TV Land:  it’s Labor Day.  A holiday! People who have the day off and aren’t spending the entire day out in the sun at cookouts or on the boat might just be looking for something to watch.  So why not air some classic television shows, which is, after all, what your network was supposed to be all about?  If you aren’t going to change your name to Movie Land, then stick with TV and leave movies to TNT.  At least you aren’t airing yet another Roseanne marathon, yet, …

If you use Twitter, you might have heard of hashtags.  You’ve almost certainly seen them.  They’re the little additional abbreviations that sometimes appear in other people’s tweets.  They’re essentially the Twitter equivalent of categories or tags in blogs.  Here in Charleston, for example, anything related to Charleston in a tweet may contain the “official” Charleston hashtag, which is #CHS.  If you see that hashtag, it will appear as a hyperlink, and clicking on it will call up a search of the latest tweets that contain that code.  Local media in …