A frightening story for those who purchase drugs online. A report from AZCentral (in Australia -- requires information disclosure) details the FDA's warning about an internet pharmacy that was selling counterfeit birth control patches. The fake Ortho Evra patches were being sold by the New Delhi, India company as genuine Johnson …

The New York Times is reporting that Bill Moyers and others are asking The History Channel to open an internal investigation into a documentary aired last year accusing former President Lyndon B Johnson of participating in the assassination of former President John F Kennedy. The row is about a show …

There's a good article appearing in the New York Times that follows the discussion of the CIA and questions about the intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq. Much of this information parallels a discussion that Carol and I had with James Woolsey, the former Clinton CIA Director, and …

For a little insight into the (much) younger generation, here's an article from The Guardian (in the UK) to mark the release of Jack Black's film School of Rock

It appears that Clear Channel Communications (the ones who brought you the Do Not Play list after 9/11), have done it again. In my beloved former home of Chicago, they decided to sell the traffic reports. Huh? Instead of hearing weather and traffic to O'Hare airport, you will be …

Just in case you have been feeling abused because of Enron and Worldcom and various other accounting scandals and figure that they can only happen in the US, I'd like to remind everybody here about Parmalat, the Italian food producer that is in trouble in the EU for false accounting …

An article from Wired discussed rock artist Peter Gabriel and his move (with fellow artist Brian Eno) to encourage new artists to look away from the traditional record labels and toward a direct relationship with their fans via the Internet. The pair were stumping support at Midem (a music conference …

As a follow up to last week's story here, I bring to your attention this article from CNet. They are reporting that young Mr. Rowe has taken the following items in exchange for his domain: A new domain name Assistance building a new site Microsoft certification training MSDN subscription (up …

There's a lot of discussion these days about the right foods to eat and how to appropriately eat during your busy life. So, I decided I'd take a look at some of the fast food chains (the ones with drive-thru service, mostly) and see how they stacked up on default …

An article from the Houston Chronicle reports that although the liberal group MoveOn had their Superbowl ad rejected by CBS, they may have benefited more from the publicity about the ad rejection than the ad itself. Among other things, they saved the $2M placement fee and have now garnered almost …

An article in the Washington Post this morning talks about presidential candidate Wesley Clark's attempt to turn a campaign embarrassment into a positive move for charity. After being derided for wearing an argyll sweater that the press claims was a transparent attempt to soften his image, Clark gave the …

OK, call me a Star Trek fan, but I found the new Priceline.com ad pretty funny. Pretty good marketing too, because without it, I wouldn't have paid any attention to the ad.

OK, so the kid should have known it was coming, but a 17-year-old in Canada has gotten Microsoft plenty mad by registering MikeRoweSoft.com, according to an article on CNN.

An article in the Washington Post this morning talks about the problems that a number of communities in the Washington, DC area are having with large warehouse retailers. The crux of the problem is that the large buildings are ugly and ill-suited for reuse. Even when another warehouse retailer decides …

An article from the Washington Post describes a WHO report on nutrition (Report 916, PDF format) and comments by the current US administration that indicate disagreement with the ideas put forth therein. In particular, administration and industry officials don't like the idea of cutting sugar-related junk food advertising to children …

Continuing on a theme discussed while Mike and I were winding our way across the beautiful (but hardly untouched) landscape of New Zealand, an article from Stuff.Co.NZ reports that a new report from the Parlimentary Commissioner for the Environment in NZ has found that Kiwis are polluting at …

Those of us in DC (and surrounding areas) know that the area in front of the White House has been closed off for a number of years. According to an article from the Washington Post this AM, the stretch of road is in for an intensive nine-month remodeling which will …

An article in the New York Times this morning points to an article from Science that describes research done by Cornell University indicating that the levels of PCBs in the two samples of salmon differed significantly. However, despite this, the levels are still 50 times less than the amount approved …

Many of you know that I don't usually put personal information up on this site. However, I have made the occasional exception for pictures of particularly good trips and so forth. Here is another such exception. On Christmas night, in front of the lit tree and the crackling fireplace, Carol …

OK, it was the parents of the two year old, but still, how ridiculous can you get? According to this story on CNN, a Stamford, CT mother has told the city she wants to be compensated because her two year old ran head-long into a railing that was painted green …