Although the PR guy typically avoids Hollywood gossip, Academy Award-winning actress Reese Witherspoon has apparently separated from her seven-year husband, actor Ryan Phillippe. The couple is splitting after seven years and two children, 7-year-old Ava and 3-year-old Deacon. Witherspoon and Philippe starred in 1999′s Cruel Intentions together after they reportedly met nine years ago at [...]
“You might remember that about this time in 2004, some of them were picking out their new offices in the West Wing,” Bush said of his own re-election bid. “The movers never got the call.” That was the message President Bush had for supporters at a rally at Georgia Southern University. CNN reported both Bushes [...]
Red Auerbach was one of the biggest contributors to professional basketball in history and what he did for the Boston Celtics has cemented his legacy in the hearts and minds of New Englanders. I simply cannot write it better than Bill Simmons in his ESPN Page 2 column today.
The most interesting thing that happened when Bill O’Reilly appeared on the “Late Show with David Letterman” last night could have been when he walked out with a plastic shield. It could have been Letterman’s prediction that he hoped he would have the chance to call the conservative a bonehead. It could been when that [...]
PRrag is implementing a useful WordPress plug in called WP-Websnapr, which enables you to see thumbnails of the many websites I link to in posts and articles. So you may start to see the thumbnails appear when you move your mouse over links, but for now it’ll mostly say “Thumbnail has been queued” as it [...]
“One Laptop Per Child” seeks to put the power of computing into each set of tiny hands. Nicholas Negroponte set out to build a $100 laptop so that children in third world nations could get on the Internet with everyone else. People thought he was crazy. Intel knows he is. But in November, Negroponte’s dream [...]
Life is good when you’re in the white collar side of oil. Exxon posted the second largest profit by an American company ever after posting $10.5 billion for the third quarter. They came up just shy of the record set by…themselves in Q4, 2005. The company easily beat Wall Street expectations by almost a billion [...]
It’s called anthocyanin. It makes for purple tomatoes, and it’s good for you. These antioxidant pigments, the same type found in red wine, are making their way into a once rare type of tomato. Researchers at Oregon State University have figured out how to naturally produce these grape-colored fruit without any “unnatural” means. The tomatoes [...]
You can say what you want about Kenny Rogers. Sure he’s a hotheaded cameraman abuser who may or may not have cheated in the first inning of last night’s game 2 of the World Series, but he’s been at it for 19 years and the bottom line is, he wiped whatever-the-heck that was off his [...]
In one of the quickest terror-related responses since September 11, and in what was clearly a scramble after reports of threats against National Football League stadiums made international news, federal agents have arrested 20-year-old Jake Brahm, of Wauwatosa, Wis. Brahm was said to be involved in a contest to see who could write the scariest [...]