Technically Incorrect

I don't know how old Alec Baldwin really is. But my guess is that his driver's license would not reveal him to be younger than he looks.

And it seems that Hulu, the brand Baldwin so brilliantly sold during the Super Bowl (who will ever forget that TV turns your brains to mush? Well, most TV viewers will, because their brains have turned to mush), is delighting in a little more maturity than some might think.

The Wall Street Journal suggested Wednesday that when Hulu went public last March, its largest demographic was not snotty-nosed punks actively looking … Read more

You have surely heard of Nadya Suleman. Perhaps you even know her well. She is the woman who, despite already having 6 children, decided to enjoy a little fertility treatment that recently brought her octuplets.

This despite having being allegedly diagnosed with depression, paranoia and wild mood swings. Oh, yes, and post-traumatic stress syndrome. There is also speculation that she may have a fixation about Angelina Jolie.

But who are we to judge whether a woman should have 14 children or not? Or whether, indeed, like Ms. Suleman, there is anything wrong with having these 14 children using sperm donated … Read more

Some people log onto Google Earth and spy men sitting on the toilet. Others find buried treasures of a different kind.

At least that is the claim of Nathan Smith, a Los Angeles musician. Mr. Smith was noodling around on Google Earth one day, randomly examining parts of the Aransas Pass in Texas. Suddenly, his eyes darted to a shoeprint-shaped outline near Barketine Creek.

His suspicions and, presumably, his vast knowledge of history, were sufficiently aroused for him to believe that what he had found was the wreckage of a Spanish barquentine (think large boat with three or more masts) … Read more

I am all for progress. But I am also all for my eyeballs. I went to the eye doctor the other day, and he said those strange flashes in my eye were nothing serious.

Now I'm thinking I'm part of an experiment, one I know nothing about.

You see, Ian Pearson, a man whose job title is 'futurologist', claims that in 10 years' time, we will all be able to insert a TV screen onto our eyeballs via contact lenses.

He told the Daily Mail: "You will just pop it into your eye in the morning and … Read more

Chances are, many of you will be going next weekend to see He's Just Not That Into You.

Some will see this, already America's No.1 movie, willingly, even enthusiastically. Others will perhaps grimace and bear it in the commitment to a higher cause.

However, while you are enjoying "I'm a Mac" icon Justin Long channeling his inner Vince Vaughn with the aim of keeping women at torso's length, you might also notice that MySpace plays a role in the movie. One that might best be described as the sleazy character that no one … Read more

I am still breathless at the idea that Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak will be appearing on Dancing With The Stars. My fear is that he may end up breathless, too.

Please let me confess that I have allowed my eyes to tiptoe through most of the last six series of this strangely addictive show. (Look, many years ago, I got paid to dance. Long story. You're not even getting the short version.) And the physical demands should not be underestimated. Especially for someone whose enthusiasm for the Segway knows leaps but no bounds.

Vital to the Woz's chances … Read more

I am not sure whom the French military is attacking these days. (I am told that relations with British tourists are much improved.)

But this morning, I happened upon peculiar information while accidentally scanning the French publication Liberation.

Apparently, in the past two weeks, some French fighter planes were grounded because the military had failed to take sufficient action (even though Microsoft had sent advance warning) to prevent the spread of a Windows-transmitted virus that some call Conficker, and the Liberation journalist, Jean-Dominique Merchet, calls Conflicker.

Mr. Merchet quotes a publication that has somehow escaped my attention--Intelligence Online.

This … Read more

One of the world's most famous soccer players, Alessandro del Piero of the Juventus club in Italy, is said to be suing Facebook.

He is distressed because of a Facebook profile that purports to be his (it features his name and image) and carries links to Nazi propaganda sites.

Del Piero, who is as handsome as David Beckham (research conducted by me among females in the last 30 minutes) and a somewhat more accomplished player (no research needed), claims that he has never had a Facebook profile.

Fascist symbolism has a long history in Italian soccer. If you've … Read more

How closely does your Mii resemble the real you?

I ask only because it seems that police in Japan decided to dispense with the services of a sketch artist--who knows, perhaps he was too temperamental--and used a Wii to create their own impression of a man they wanted to question.

The Mii feature on Nintendo's Wii video game console allows you to create your own avatarish persona on games such as Wii Sports. So the wise policemen in the Kanegawa prefecture apparently decided they could swiftly create a Mii of a man who may have been involved in a … Read more