SKIRMISHER

There seems to be a growing number of people who hate iPods.
First, the goat is about the non-user-replaceable battery. The Neistat brothers, like other early adopters, realized in September 2003 that once an iPod’s battery dies on you, Apple taps its cigar on a gold-plated ashtray, coolly blows smoke in your face, and tells you, [...]

I used to be a Lara Croft fan, until Angelina Jolie came to spoil it for me. Now, there’s a great-lookin’ reason why I could dip my hand into the latest incarnation of the Tombraider franchise: a hot Brit named Karima Adebibe.
In a Gamespy interview, the new Lara Croft talks about how “kosher” she’s always [...]

According to a survey by Mercer Consulting, the cheapest cities in the world are Paraguay’s Asuncion, Zimbabwe’s Harare, Buenos Aires, Manila, Pakistan’s Karachi, India’s Bangalore and Uruguay’s Montevideo.

It should have been music to the ears. But the sour note is that the whole thing’s relative; those who actually live in Manila–those millions of locals–have many [...]

[The Microsoft gang in 1978]
Now that Bill Gates is handing over Microsoft’s reins to dear old Ozzie, it’s interesting to glimpse how The Man worked in the past decades. In an essay published in Fortune last April, Gates talks about hits and misses, endless meetings, and how something like paper has practically vanished from his [...]

Now that murmurs about Lady in the Water are growing into such a confused cacophony the nearer we get to its official opening on July 21, the creator of such films as The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, and The Village is crying wolf.
Yes, I understand it’s very easy to pick Disney as the wolf here; [...]

I found something that even my fellow evil henchman JB Lazarte wouldn’t dare touch with a ten-foot pole: cats that look like Hitler.
And as if one cat is not enough, the Hitler Cats! blog has a menagerie of these “feline Nazis” that might send even the Mossad running for cover.
Sieg heil?

The whole world is still reeling over Dan Brown’s controversial novel, The Da Vinci Code. Despite “strong evidence” that the King of Kings made it with “The Sacred Feminine,” that subject matter is still unclear.
That is what Brown’s novel is all about. He wrote perhaps modern literature’s greatest thriller/detective story ever, weaving all the rudiments [...]

The Great Newspaper Die-off has probably begun. If recent circulation figures are any indication, the print media in First World America is folding back its carpet.
MediaLife says on the American situation:
Simply put, fewer Americans are reading daily newspapers, and the pace that they are quitting them shows no sign of slowing down.
The average daily print [...]