Let's face facts. We are all geeks about something . I don't care how cool you think you are, there is something dorky about you...

It is with great sadness that I report to my fans outside the Baltimore area that one of the great voices of the city passed away over the w...

And the question is: Who is Ken Jennings . I heart Ken. He made Jeopardy really fun again. My wife was put on bedrest during her pregnancy...

Then try selling it online. I probably shouldn't comment on this one.

For once, words fail me regarding this . Just so you know: W is a marketing and PR firm. But the site is worth exploring if, like me, you h...

This weekend, the world will finally learn why Anakin Skywalker , a promising young Jedi Knight, turned to the Dark Side to become Darth Vad...

This stuff scares me . There has been an ongoing outbreak of Marburg Virus in Angola for well over a month now, and they can't seem to c...

I have been blessed to stay friends with three of my four principle running buddies from high school. Later this summer, the last of these ...

There are only a few French things I admit to liking. Jean Reno and Luc Besson are two things from France I like. Another is the non-Besso...

I am not a big fan of series fiction. I have been burned too many times with "trilogies" that turned into "on-going series...

I saw Kingdom of Heaven over the weekend. I don't want to be in the business of doing movie reviews on this site. I'll leave that...

You know, my own brother says that people with blogs are big dorks. Ok, maybe. But here's someone who's probably a bigger dork: sh...

There is no record of the birth of Doctor John Dee . No doctor's notes, no baptismal record, no town hall registry. We know the particul...

A species of ivory-billed woodpecker that was thought extinct for 60 years was recently found to be living deep in the swamp. Now, I don...

This qualifies as "low" weirdness.

For those of you who crave more excitement in your days... The Federal Air Marshal Service is now hiring again. Good Luck!

It is somewhat cliche to introduce Robert Ervin Howard as the man who created Conan the Barbarian . It slights his other characters: Solomon...

My wife has been trying to pick up a copy of The Loch , by Steve Alten for me. She works in a bookstore and saw the book arrive. Knowing I h...

NBC News' Stone Philips strayed off the path of hard-hitting investigative journalism long enough to explore the secrets of the Da Vinci...

An international celebrity of celestial proportions has recently been sighted in Chicago. A salt stain below an underpass bears a remarkabl...