The heretofore harmless " flash mob " phenomenon -- groups of people arranging to meet at specific times and places to burst into ...

...playing with a toy shovel, heaping beach sand into a small plastic bucket. That's what a boy of (almost) four years old does when he...

Those of us who live in areas vulnerable to hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and similar natural hazards swear by our weather radios. The techn...

Today's savvy keyboard kommandos are familiar with Adobe Reader , the popular document-sharing software that allows us to read .pdf fil...

The "throwback uniforms" worn by Ohio State during yesterday's win over Michigan were a tribute to the 1942 OSU team that cap...

They call it " the surveillance society ." By one estimate there are 4.2 million CCTV cameras in use in the UK -- one camera for e...

Although KintlaLake Blog has been around for two-and-a-half years (as of yesterday , actually), Blogger has offered statistics only for a ...

As my family and I pulled out of a local restaurant's parking lot last evening, the amber "check engine" icon began glowing on...

Mobile phones are at once necessary and evil. I embrace the technology because I must. As a long-time user of Palm devices, my Centro has f...

My family and I stayed close to home over the weekend. On both Saturday and Sunday we did, in fact, do laundry and watch football. It was no...

My father-in-law is in the habit of mumbling observations from behind his morning newspaper, usually in response to what he's reading, o...

Getting an Internet connection working here at our new digs -- er, home , I mean -- has strained our patience. Notice, however, that I said ...

If you have kids, you've seen the pose -- head bowed, shoulders slack, full attention focused on an object cradled with both hands, tota...

I'm a certified (perhaps certifiable) "neat freak," and my penchant for orderliness extends to the way I organize information....

The past week has been plenty eventful, but after last Monday's mad dash to the ER I haven't put together a train of thought that mi...