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Go, Bird, go!
You've all heard it by now. Mark "The Bird" Fidrych is dead. He was 54. There are plenty of places to read about The Bird, like here and especially here.…
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Top 10 Men’s fashion rules
It's Spring, so it's high time we talked about men's fashion. Update: George Will and Daniel Akst from the Wall Street Journal have weighed in. We'll do women at another…
I don’t care about your tour of the clubhouse
Enough with the pitch count! It was 88 last pitch---and even with my limited mathematical ability I can figure out that the next must be 89. Keep quiet about on-base…
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Omni magazine: a tribute
Crap. Some kind of psychobabble how-to. Crap. Romance novel, romance novel, something in a plastic binder---and it's sticky!, ah geez---crap, crap, crap. Wait...what's that one. With the psychedelic cover. Do…
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Did a psychic solve the Tabitha Horn murder case?
This was an investigation that I did a long time ago, but I never properly wrote up. I was inspired to finally do so by reading Joe Nickell's similar sleuthing…
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What scientific or technological advance would you most like to see in your lifetime?
The real geeks among us long for synthohol. Only Class A nerds know, or admit to knowing, what it is, too. But I have to tell you, your potential partner's…
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What’s killing newspapers?
News. News is what is killing papers. Not "news" as in something you want and need to read, but "news" as in something reporters once liked and wanted to write…
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Why I do not yet own an e-book reader
Clever readers will have noticed the modifier yet. Because it seems inevitable that someday we will be forced to own one. Plenty of reviews of the two main readers exist:…