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Everyone is going nuts about the latest Apple iPhone ads, which feature normal people using FaceTime video chat to laugh and cry together.As far as we're concerned, the jury is still out on whether Apple's new FaceTime iPhone video chat will be the next big thing or just another cool feature that no one uses (please weigh in with your thoughts here).More...

Check Out Those FaceTime Ads: Think Apple Understands The Network Effect?

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Larry King took his sons Chance, 11, and Cannon, 10, to Disneyland for the MLB All Star Parade.The King boys are in Anaheim for the All Star game, where, as Larry tweeted tweeted, "the boys will be shagging fly balls during [Monday's] home run contest."More...

Larry King Takes Sons Chance & Cannon To Disneyland (PHOTOS)

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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — A police raid for stolen vehicles found 42 of them at a warehouse in Malaysia – and hundreds of birds and other protected wildlife.Celescoriano Razond, an official with the wildlife department, says police officers found some 700 birds and caged leopard cats, albino pygmy monkeys and other animals. They included about 20 protected species.More...

Malaysia Raid For Stolen Cars Finds 20 Protected Species

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Two national polls released Tuesday revealed that registered voters think it's more important to help the unemployed than to reduce the deficit.Voters are generally wary of government spending to boost the economy, but they nevertheless told ABC News and CBS News that the deficit is no reason not to help the unemployed.More...

Voters Say To Hell With Deficit Reduction, Help The Unemployed

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The problem with speaking English instead of using made-up words is that we assume our pets know what we mean. We say, "Sit" and expect Fido to drop his derrier, but the command Fido's learned is "sit, sit, sit, SIT!"More...

Animal Behavior: Teaching Rover to Race to You on Cue

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To your employer, you are what you tweet.While most of your Twitter updates may be harmless--whether it's the latest viral video or what you had for breakfast--voicing an opinion on Twitter, even if it's not expressly critical, can land you in hot water and out of a job.More...

Fired Over Twitter: 13 Tweets That Got People CANNED

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We pushed open the door and stepped into another world, the world of a fine old bouchon*, and we knew we were in for a perfect evening. A warm welcome awaited us as we, entranced, winded our way through this magical, bustling restaurant in all of its traditional Lyons' charm. Tables of dark chocolate brown wood polished and gleaming, a bar hugging one wall lined with bottles of all shapes and sizes and colors, diners happy and buoyant, common folk sitting elbow to elbow next to Lyons' upper crust bourgeois carrying on animated conversations, sharing stories, laughs and the pleasure of eating in such a place. Le patron hovers over his clients, teasing, joking, making sure everyone is content and he finds himself over at our table where, instead of handing us menus as we had expected, he pulls up a chair and joins us. He then begins to recite the day's offerings, explaining and commenting on each dish, one by one, pulling gleefully on his own plump cheek as he describes the joues de porc, pig's cheeks, and asking our fellow diners to hold up their plates of food for our scrutiny as he names one or the other, confident that the diner in question will certainly praise the food. I began with a plate of snails, dense yet tender, swimming in a luscious cream sauce kissed by garlic and perched atop tiny home-baked brioche. And I just had to try the quenelle de brochet, a classic bouchon dish and traditional food of this gastronomic city. The quenelle de brochet, pike dumpling, served here in a langoustine cream sauce was as big as my head, light and fluffy like a soufflé though denser and tasting delicately of fish. It was served alongside a rich, creamy potato gratin and perfectly sautéed endives. Copious and gorgeous! My meal ended with a warm crème brûlée -- just perfect. Everything was served without ceremony, simply with the pride of a chef placing only the best before a special guest. Generous food is the hallmark of this generous town.Yet the evening wasn't quite over. Near the end of the meal an excited buzz started running through the dining room, whispers passing from client to client. Le patron approaches each table, each client and invites us all to a private tour of his "traboule", the secret passages that weave between buildings and courtyards all throughout Lyons allowing residents and visitors to pass from building to building without going out into the street. Le patron, elegant and erudite, passionate about the history of his building and his traboule, leaves us laughing at his bawdy brothel jokes, entranced by the stories of famous people, fascinated by the history of this secret, fabulous spot in Lyons, a history of Ancient Rome, the French Resistance, the city's famous silk workers, presidents and prostitutes, church and politics. An evening truly well spent.More...

A Side Trip to Lyons: Le Bouchon

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Fashion blogger Tavi Gevinson of Style Rookie has written an open letter to Seventeen magazine regarding its June/July 2010 cover, slamming the glossy for implying that being fat and ugly is the worst thing that can happen to a teenage girl.More...

Tavi SLAMS Seventeen Magazine For 'Fat & Ugly' Headline

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Congress is hemming and hawing over financial reform, no doubt weighing up the cost of too little reform vs. too many lost campaign contributions. Meanwhile, while the best jobless workers can hope for is an extension of benefits for the long-term unemployed, it's not just the jobless who are slipping under the bus -- it's all workers. As Robert Reich pointed out this week, real wages are falling -  even as hours and “productivity” are rising. And the White House keeps on hoping that the private sector will do the right thing about all of this.More...

The F Word: Great Hoarding Causing Great Hurt

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The University of Texas system has invested $500 million, or 3 percent of its total investment funds, in gold.The Houston Chronicle reports that the university bout the gold out of fears of "unstable international financial markets and the possibility of high inflation." It is relatively uncommon for a university to invest in gold, the value of which only increases through inflation.More...

Nervous About Endowment, University Of Texas Invests In Gold