The unpredicted success of online luxury shopping.

The continuing licensing saga of quirky, high-low designer, Isaac Mizrahi

The European Parliament has authorised the French State to finance and help its cinema industry. A little digression about France's exception...

Times columnist Esther Dyson has come out in support of "Goodmail," a company I've mentioned before that AOL would use as a proxy to charge senders of e-mail to get their messages across "priority," with the ostensible intent of limiting spam. Her arguments in favor of it are full of holes like a giant digital slice of swiss cheese.

Ever wake up surrounded by empty ice cream cartons, candy wrappers, and potato chip bags with no recollection of what happened the night before? Well, these people have.

Per capita consumption of soda is down. Sales per case slipped for the first time in 20 years, reported Beverage Digest, indicating trouble for the carbonated soft drink industry.

Which online information source has best captured the poignant and bittersweet moments of our third anniversary in Iraq? The awards are in.....

Yeah, it's true that "Sex And the City" hammered home the luxury labels, bringing them to an audience hungry big-city fashion, but there’s a big difference between clever product placement or brand worship, and actually “vulgarizing” something.

Katrina made New Orleans an excellent foil to highlight the active role of journalists in the event being reported--includes bonus non-objective report by local writer Kerry Lee Mansell

A recent study on hypnosis seems to confirm what new-age philosophers have been saying for decades: you have the power to alter your perception of reality.

On the Canadian Recording Industry Association's web page, you'll find some run of the mill, apocalyptic anti-file sharing headlines that comes off as even more alarmist than the American variety of this propoganda. But according to Michael Geist, a 144 page CRIA-commissioned study on the allegedly pernicious problem of peer-to-peer piracy contradicts the chiseled-in-stone industry notion that file sharing is the prime cause of all of society's ills.

A group of Florida neuroscientists taught a disembodied brain to fly an F-22 fighter jet.

Roughly two weeks ago, the Heath & Fitness Section of Tuesday’s New York Times ran an article about women whose husbands are unfaithful with other men.

Throughout this past week, there has been some buzz about Christine Quinn, the lesbian City Council speaker’s boycott of the St. Patrick’s Day parade.

Is it just more cryptozoology, or has the ivory-billed woodpecker really come back to us?