Approximately 30 years ago, it is generally agreed, a Japanese man named Daisuke Inoue made one of the greatest inventions in history, though it would be many years later before he was duly recognized for his achievement. This year, Inoue was honored with the 2004 Ig Nobel Peace Prize for his creation of Karaoke ( Read more... )

Decided to answer one of these...we'll see...

I've received so many congratulatory messages, it's quite impossible to reply to all of them. Thanks for reading. Both of you. One question I get a lot: "Dude, what's up with our name? Are you foreign or something?" Well, "dudes", I'm as American as all get-out. My name comes from "Ancient History", or as they say at my house, "The Good Old Days". ( Read more... )

Ok, everybody else is doing this, so why not? I'll tell you why not; I may or may not be the world's laziest person. Thing is, I'm too lazy to find out for sure, so if someone else wishes to contest that title, have at it. So I won't be writing in this thing every day. Maybe not every week. But from time to time I will try to jot down a line or two ( Read more... )