From the Department of Bizarre Anomalies: Microsoft has suppressed an unexplained anomaly on its network that was routing traffic destined to example.com—a domain reserved for testing purposes—to a ...

Performers often get all the credit when it comes to shaping musical history. But without the engineers and businesspeople making things happen behind the scenes, there would be no mainstream musical ...

Singer and rapper Example suffered a blunder during a recent gig after telling a woman to “get up and dance”, apparently not realising she was pregnant and disabled. Footage of the awkward moment was ...

The morning sun shone warm and bright. It looked like another great day for the war-fat Gulf port town of Texas City, Tex.—”The Port of Opportunity.” Stores were busy, prosperous people “howdy’d” one ...

Twenty-five days after the national election, the December 1 over wrought opinion column from Sheldon Metz, "Start counting the campaign lies and promises," represents the pluperfect example of ...

So this is the Jets being the Jets again under Woody Johnson, one of the weakest and worst owners we’ve ever had around here. They make so many dumb choices, mostly about quarterbacks, that they ...

From an innovative (and subsequently controversial) opening ceremony to shattered world records across the sports spectrum, the Paris Olympics have marked a celebratory return to the Games we knew and ...

Being old, I spend considerable time correcting facile modern accounts of long-ago events that I happened to have witnessed. They rarely check out, as George Orwell so aptly warned, the truth having ...

In addition to being one of the most fun words to say—and hardest to spell—in English, “onomatopoeia” probably calls to mind a whole bunch of silly, fun words. Onomatopoeia is the process of creating ...

The publics surveyed are largely skeptical that democracy in the U.S., at least in its current form, is a good example for other countries to follow. A median of four-in-ten across the 34 nations ...