Earlier this year Microsoft Corporation ™ released Windows Vista (registered trademark). The Computer Users Community greeted it with an enthusiastic yawn despite the fact that retailers pushed Vista as if it was an invention on a par with the wheel, the electric light, and that bathroom cleaner with scrubbing bubbles. By contrast, when Apple [...]

  Guys, face it, we’re notorious for missing the subtle cues that a woman is angry; the slight flush in her cheeks, a widening of her eyes, and the unnecessarily vigorous chopping of vegetables like carrots and celery (especially when she’s not actually cooking). These are the feminine equivalents of a snake’s rattle or an [...]

  When people say that the romance has gone out of their marriage, they generally mean they’ve had children. Parenthood is a major toll booth on the expressway of romance. Before children married life was one long date with art-house films, concerts and exotic restaurants. After delivery it turned into Disney movies, recitals and restaurants [...]

  I just finished reading Stephen King’s horror novel Cell. It’s a frightening tale of the near future in which a mysterious pulse turns cell phone users into mindless zombies. At the terrifying climax the zombies herd the heroes into an abandoned building and then … WARNING: The following description contains concepts and images dangerous [...]