There’s hardly a better endoresement of a compilation album than the following, taken from the back of Take Action! Volume 8: “Take Action was founded in 1999 by Hopeless Records in connection with their non-profit organization Sub City to encourage young people to make a positive impact in the world.  A portion of the proceeds [...]

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Composer Christopher Young is no stranger to the horror genre. He’s worked on the infamous Hellraiser and A Nightmare on Elm Street franchises as well as on Species, The Grudge (1 and 2), and The Dark Half. In fact, with over 90 movie composition credits to his name, his very second movie was a horror [...]

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Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert In a Microsoft press release a global bounty has been offered for the arrest and prosecution of whoever has created and released the “conficker” virus. Conficker was released in the last quarter of 2008 and has infected a wide estimate of 2 million to 10 million PCs. After issuing patches, [...]

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Monday the state released over 1100 pages of evidence against Casey Anthony to her defense team. Casey Anthony is the tot’s mom that is being held in Orange County Jail on charges of first degree murder of her 2 year old daughter, Caylee Marie Anthony. The test results from the FBI lab done on the [...]

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Writer/director Kevin Smith is well-known for his foul-mouthed scripts and his (somewhat intentional) lack of flair behind the camera.  And though Smith is admittedly lacking in the directorial department, his well-crafted lines typically pull his movies along anyway, as characters spout off nonstop quips and pop references in lieu of investing in a scene. This method has served Smith well in [...]

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The Obama Revolution by Alan Kennedy-Shaffer is the first book to be written by an Obama staffer about the 2008 campaign. The book promises an insider account of the Obama campaign, but does it deliver?

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A Hero’s Long Journey Without Despair Roy Thompson the British Press Lord once said, “What makes a hero truly great is that they never despair.” Such a man is Leo Thorsness, a former Air Force fighter pilot who endured six long years of constant torture and mind numbing boredom with unflinching courage and gritty determination. The [...]

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There are many different types of alternative medicine, many here in the Western Hemisphere view them with doubt and suspicion. Occasionally even using terms like barbaric and quackery. Yet if we look at the history of our modern medicine those same words can be used when talking about accepted western practices from the not very [...]

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I love movies about escaping.  Escape From New York is one of my favorite movies from the Eighties.  Who can’t love Snake Pliskin?  Not to mention that Ernest Borgnine is a delight in anything, so it’s wonderful to see him too.  Now there’s another escape movie, although it’s one your kids can watch and they’ll [...]

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It seems as though penguins are popping up in all sorts of movies.  There was Happy Feet, which had a dancing Elijah Wood voiced penguin lamenting the loss of the fish to Japanese fishing fleets.  Then there was Surf’s Up!, a tale about penguins who live in tropical waters and love to surf.  Now a [...]

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According to a recent report Australian rubbish collectors found the deadly substance, asbestos, dumped in bins outside the Cooma showground and Hain Centre. The findings were made between Christmas and New Year according to the reports. The asbestos had been put into cardboard boxes, and the boxes had them been dumped into the rubbish bins [...]

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Why Naomi of 90210 is not a Bully In the 1990’s, I was a fan of the show Beverly Hills 90210. I watched it in college and during most of the decade. So, when a new 90210 came this season to the CW, I watched some of it as it had some of the old [...]

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This was an animated Disney feature which was a free re-working of Oliver Twist, set in modern New York. It seemed to vanish without a trace after it’s initial release, twenty years ago – which was a pity, for although the animation work is pretty pedestrian – the first to rely heavily upon computers, and [...]

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Born in Barnet, Hertfordshire, Barry Eva, also known as “Storyheart,” left his beloved England in 2000, moving to the USA to be with the woman he’d met and fallen in love with on the Internet. Better known for his short romance stories on the net and in his book Stories from the Heart, Barry is [...]

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Lily is outraged at Cloe and Billy lying to Cane when suddenly Cloe’s water breaks. Lily tells her she would say anything to get out of this. Cloe says this isn’t exactly something you can fake and Billy agrees. Lily tells her she isn’t even due yet. Cloe looks down and tells Lily to tell [...]

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I think Valentine’s Day has got to be one of the dumbest holidays around.  It’s not religious, like Easter or Christmas, nor is it a nationally significant holiday, like 4th of July or Labor Day.  It’s something that retailers have cooked up because otherwise we wouldn’t spend money between Christmas and Easter.  So to celebrate [...]

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This is a movie which barely made a ripple at the box office, before apparently sinking without a trace, only to emerge in DVD release. Which is a pity, as it is eminently watchable, not least for the detailed visualization of the underground city of the title. It is based on a very popular series [...]

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There was worldwide support for Autism Sunday 2009 – the International Day of Prayer for Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome observed on 8th February. Many more Cathedrals, Churches and religious organisations marked this international day. People also used Autism Sunday to campaign and lobby on the serious issues connected with Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome. Thousands logged [...]

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I will leave it to the economists to figure out how using the present day credit crisis as an excuse to increase government spending will solve the world’s problems. But as a doc, I hate to tell you that there are a few worrisome items in that spending bill that you need to know about. [...]

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