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  • Blogs

    May 21, 2012

    Nicole Okrzesik Googled How to Kill Juliana Mensch, Police Say

    Police say 19-year-old Juliana Mensch was strangled in a Fort Lauderdale home by two of her friends, James Ayers and his girlfriend, Nicole Okrzesik, who wanted to rob her for drug money. Ayers was arrested several days after the killing after reportedly telling a friend that he did it; Okrzesik was ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2012

    Scarlett Johansson, Mila Kunis -- Who Else Did Christopher Chaney, Florida's Celebrity Hacker, Spy On?

    ​Earlier this week, a 35-year-old Jacksonville man, Christopher Chaney, pleaded guilty to charges that he hacked into celebrity email accounts and leaked nude photos of several of them, including Scarlett Johansson and Mila Kunis. He faces up to 60 years in prison, according to the Associated Pres ... More >>

  • Culture

    February 16, 2012

    "Top Gun! The Musical" at Empire Stage: Offbeat Comedy Is Just Plane Bad

    ​Earlier this week, a 35-year-old Jacksonville man, Christopher Chaney, pleaded guilty to charges that he hacked into celebrity email accounts and leaked nude photos of several of them, including Scarlett Johansson and Mila Kunis. He faces up to 60 years in prison, according to the Associated Pres ... More >>

  • News

    February 2, 2012

    The Super Bowl Prostitution Hoax: Indianapolis Mobilizes for an Epic Battle With an Urban Legend

    ​Earlier this week, a 35-year-old Jacksonville man, Christopher Chaney, pleaded guilty to charges that he hacked into celebrity email accounts and leaked nude photos of several of them, including Scarlett Johansson and Mila Kunis. He faces up to 60 years in prison, according to the Associated Pres ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2011

    How a Rice Cooker Saved Me From a Lifetime of Prostitution

    ​Cooking is hard, or so I was brought up to believe. I wasn't told this but rather deduced it from two facts: My family was full of people who'd spent decades cooking for one another, and almost none of them seemed to be very good at it. So what was the point? If a lifetime spent grimly oozing swe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2011

    Google Maps Now Covers the Inside of the Fort Lauderdale Airport -- Why?

    ​Why you would need a map from Google of the inside of the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport is beyond us, but it now exists.The airport is one of a handful of locations now mapped on the indoors for the Google Maps application for Android devices, and we're still trying to figure ou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2011

    Facebook Is Going Out of Business, According to Overly Optimistic Pembroke Pines Woman

    ​A Pembroke Pines woman says she's going to "destroy Facebook's lead in the social networking universe" with her new social networking website that costs $45 a year.Good luck.Evelyn Castillo-Bach says her website, UmeNow, is everything Facebook isn't -- as far as advertising and privacy are concer ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2011

    Reverse-Mortgage Fraud Suspects Worked at Firm in Boca and Fort Lauderdale

    U.S. Attorney Wilfredo Ferrer brings the charges.​The three Florida men charged with reverse-mortgage fraud on Wednesday were Palm Beach County residents who worked for 1st Continental Mortgage, with offices in Boca Raton and Fort Lauderdale. A reverse mortgage allows a bank to purchase the homes ... More >>

  • News

    June 9, 2011

    South Florida's Best Cocktails: We Travel Between Beaches and Barstools to Find the Best of What's Shaken and Stirred

    U.S. Attorney Wilfredo Ferrer brings the charges.​The three Florida men charged with reverse-mortgage fraud on Wednesday were Palm Beach County residents who worked for 1st Continental Mortgage, with offices in Boca Raton and Fort Lauderdale. A reverse mortgage allows a bank to purchase the homes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2011

    Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Internet Illiterate

    Wasserman Schultz: Are your algorithms... magic?​There are 7 billion people in the world. A little more than a quarter of them are connected to the internet. Of those, most could slap together a simple website if they really wanted to. Many have.Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the comely congresswoman f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2011

    Nerd Alert: Google Becomes Social, Gets a "Like" Button Called 1

    via techcrunch.comGoogle is now more social.​Maybe Google's new feature is why Twitter is over capacity -- internet-folk be tweetin' the news to the far reaches of the universe (btw, did you see those pictures of Mercury? I'd 1 that). "The 1 button is shorthand for 'this is pretty cool' or 'you ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2011

    Movie Theater Coupons Good Through January

      Photo Courtesy of Google Images​Taking a trip to the movies used to be a nice, casual way to spend a Saturday evening, but now with the outrageous prices of tickets and concessions, a night at the movies has turned into a special occasion. It's easy to spend upward of $40 for two pe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2010

    I'm Drinking What? Elf Piss

    Photo by Riki AltmanFrom the North Pole with love​OK, it's really not elfin pee. It's tarragon soda. But we were swelled up with Christmas spirit and this drink we found at the Russian market was just so damn green that we couldn't pass it up. 'Tis the season for pine-colored items, right? It ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2010

    Gluten-Free Halloween Candy

    Reese's are safe for Celiacs!As we've written in previous posts, people who can't eat gluten (AKA celiacs) are forced to carefully read every label to make sure to avoid gluten -- which seems to be in just about everything.Reading labels can make it difficult for gluten-free children come candy time ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2010

    I'm Eating What?! Eigene Herstellung (AKA Star Cookies)

    Photo by Riki AltmanLittle stars, how I wonder what you are...​Hmmm. The bag had only two words on it: eigene herstellung. And no ingredients, no expiration date, and no nutritional information. Was it worth trying?It was pretty obvious to the human eye that these were innocent little sugar-topped ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2010

    Mercifully, Website Logins Will Vanish in the Internet Future

    Flickr​With the spread of cloud computing, social networking, and client-based technologies, fewer and fewer of our computing tasks are taking place on our personal computers. More of them are going online -- into the cloud. We have more usernames and passwords to manage than ever.The most reckles ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2010

    Q&A With Jay Berkowitz, South Florida Techrepreneur

    ​The Boca Raton-based TenGoldenRules.com specializes in business to business (B2B) internet marketing between small, medium, and large businesses.Jay Berkowitz, its founder and CEO, is a true entrepreneur in the internet marketing field. He's promoted such companies as McDonald's and Coca-Cola. In ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 24, 2009

    Student-Teacher Shenanigans

    ​The Boca Raton-based TenGoldenRules.com specializes in business to business (B2B) internet marketing between small, medium, and large businesses.Jay Berkowitz, its founder and CEO, is a true entrepreneur in the internet marketing field. He's promoted such companies as McDonald's and Coca-Cola. In ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2009

    TechSqueeze: Fonts, Typography, and Sex

    I got your cufon right here​Anyone who is in the web design, print, or graphic design industries knows all about fonts. The rest of us usually don't give them much thought, really. I know I hadn't until attending last Thursday's Refresh Fort Lauderdale.  The discussion that night was web font ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2009

    Lauderdale Airport's Newest Carrier Announces Special Service to Customers Who've Never Had Sex

    Screen grab: PCMag.com​ Can't get laid? Well, maybe some free WiFi will cheer you up. Google is teaming up with the newest airline to serve Fort Lauderdale - Hollywood International Airport so that virgin travelers can have free internet.Oh wait, maybe that's Virgin travelers? Haha. This is just a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 3, 2009

    Weekend Blog Watch

    via Good Is​Although Clean Plate Charlie is the only food blog you need to read every day, some people just can't get enough. And some people don't like to read at all. This post is for you! This week, we're highlighting food blogs which focus on pretty pictures.Fast Food Ads vs. Reality puts the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2009

    No Waiting Room to See Dr. Google

    Flickr: van_thanh2910And no, you can't sue it for malpractice.​While we're on the subject of desperate times calling for desperate health-care measures, recent studies have shown that Americans are increasingly relying on the internet to diagnose and treat their medical conditions. What's more, a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 28, 2009

    Stings So Good! But How Will We Con Criminals Next Time?

    Flickr: quickcuffed"Welcome to Al's! Let me show you to your cell. Can I tell you about our special on bologna sandwiches?"​Operation Show Me the Money was a big hit for the Fort Lauderdale Police, who invited people with outstanding warrants to collect stimulus checks only to be arrested. In this ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2009

    Hollywood Drug Maker Scorned Nationally, Advertising Locally

    http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/A screen grab from the Broward edition of this morning's Miami Herald.​A month after a national magazine named Resveratrol Ultra among the drug supplements that profit from what appear to be misleading advertisements and in the week following its being menti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2009

    On Hollywood Beach, Only City Stands a Chance of Making a Sale

    Photo: Google mapsThe Mermaid on Pierce Street in Hollywood Beach.​Like so many in this market, Eileen Miller wants to sell. But the owner of two small hotels on Hollywood Beach -- the Swan and the Mermaid -- is up against a formidable adversary. The City of Hollywood, which is also a seller and w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2009

    The Ritz Offers a Month of Gourmet Burgers

    Celebrate the burger. Just don't eat it with a fork and knife.Let us all praise the humble disc of ground beef stuffed between two slices of bread this month of May 2009. May, you see, is National Hamburger Month. And after all, if you can have National Prune Breakfast Month (January) or National Pi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2009

    Go Cork Yourself

    A cool new website launched this week helps readers identify local restaurants that operate with a BYOB policy, and also provides the establishments' wine policy and corkage information. Southeast Florida is one of ten metropolitan areas covered by GoBYO.com. The free online service also provides di ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2009

    Are You a Leg Man?

    Just a reminder to mark your calendars: The Fellsmere Frog Legs Festival kicks off on January 15th and runs through the weekend to a grand finale at the Sunday Croaker Run. For my money Saturday the 17th looks like the best day to show if you're feeling competitive: three contests include Leap Frog, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2009

    Food Stamp Nation - Florida Leads The Pack

    The Miami Herald reports that "In the last two years, the number of Floridians on food stamps has increased more than 40 percent to 1.7 million. That increase is the highest in the nation, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture."The numbers read like this, 356,000 food stamp recipients li ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2009

    I Got Crabs in Everglades City

    Wow, I am so ashamed of myself. I've lived in South Florida for 15 years, and until last weekend I'd never been to Everglades City, stone crab capital of the universe. This little one-horse town is a seafood-lover's wet dream, and it's barely two hours drive from the door of my Lake Worth shack to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2008

    LOLZ! ROFL! ACLU! Lawsuit Defends Student's Bitchy Facebook Page

    Hey kids, good news! If you want to create a Facebook page that declares some teacher "the worst teacher in, like, the world," and then you are suspended for that, the Florida chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida will sue the damn school to protect your First Amendment rights, as ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2008

    Art Basel Week: A.R.E. Weapons, J.D. Samson at O.H.W.O.W., Dec. 2

    Longtime legends of the lower-lower Manhattan underground, the quartet A.R.E. Weapons have been steadily chugging along since 1999, blasting out something along the lines of electro-rock as imagined by former punk rock types. The band's noisy assault of party-in-your-face found some near-mainstream ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2008

    DeGroot: Say Hello To President McCain

    Longtime legends of the lower-lower Manhattan underground, the quartet A.R.E. Weapons have been steadily chugging along since 1999, blasting out something along the lines of electro-rock as imagined by former punk rock types. The band's noisy assault of party-in-your-face found some near-mainstream ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2008

    Screw the Corkscrew

    Longtime legends of the lower-lower Manhattan underground, the quartet A.R.E. Weapons have been steadily chugging along since 1999, blasting out something along the lines of electro-rock as imagined by former punk rock types. The band's noisy assault of party-in-your-face found some near-mainstream ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2008

    Google Explains United Airlines Debacle

    Longtime legends of the lower-lower Manhattan underground, the quartet A.R.E. Weapons have been steadily chugging along since 1999, blasting out something along the lines of electro-rock as imagined by former punk rock types. The band's noisy assault of party-in-your-face found some near-mainstream ... More >>

  • News

    August 21, 2008

    Two Tales From the Trail

    Pols being pols: Rodstrom cleans house, Gallagher goes missing

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2008

    Delicious Organics Delivers!

    Pols being pols: Rodstrom cleans house, Gallagher goes missing

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2008

    Reusable Chopsticks: Save A Rainforest

    Pols being pols: Rodstrom cleans house, Gallagher goes missing

  • News

    July 17, 2008

    Dirty Type

    Pols being pols: Rodstrom cleans house, Gallagher goes missing

  • News

    October 18, 2007

    Looking for Lucifer

    Authorities use high-tech tactics to try to stop cyber critics bedeviling a city

  • Music

    June 7, 2007

    Atomic Dog

    Authorities use high-tech tactics to try to stop cyber critics bedeviling a city

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2007

    Google Killing Newspapers?

    Authorities use high-tech tactics to try to stop cyber critics bedeviling a city

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2007

    Sun-Sentinel's "Transformative Change"

    Authorities use high-tech tactics to try to stop cyber critics bedeviling a city

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2006

    Fun With Google

    Authorities use high-tech tactics to try to stop cyber critics bedeviling a city

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2006

    Archie Bunker Lives

    Authorities use high-tech tactics to try to stop cyber critics bedeviling a city

  • News

    April 13, 2006

    Who Do I Have to Whack to Raise My Google Profile?

    Radio right-winger Doug Goetzloe tries another political hit for Internet ratings.

  • Calendar

    July 21, 2005

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    Radio right-winger Doug Goetzloe tries another political hit for Internet ratings.

  • Restaurants

    May 12, 2005

    Best Place to Dine with Gramps

    Old Florida Seafood House

  • Calendar

    April 29, 2004

    Rock 'em, Sock 'em

    Old Florida Seafood House

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