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Saturday's Headlines & Surprises

Sunday's Headlines & Surprises

John Wayne and the Grey, er, Wild Goose: Greg Aragon reports that John Wayne's 1942 yacht, Wild Goose, remains a work horse tour boat for Hornblower Cruises & Events in the area and that the long dead actor's spiritual presence is aboard. (If dying doesn't change bad habits, I presume he's still in ... More >>

November Surprise?

John Wayne and the Grey, er, Wild Goose: Greg Aragon reports that John Wayne's 1942 yacht, Wild Goose, remains a work horse tour boat for Hornblower Cruises & Events in the area and that the long dead actor's spiritual presence is aboard. (If dying doesn't change bad habits, I presume he's still in ... More >>

Nutsack in a Blender

Boston, dude! Boston!

No-Flight Manual

Airport foe goes from web page to printed page

Special Screenings

Movie of the Week: Sicko

Back To School

Movie of the Week: Sicko

Light, Bright

The humbling effect of Quantizing Effects

Science Friction

UCI physics professor takes on Michael Crichton, global warming

Diary of a Mad County

UCI physics professor takes on Michael Crichton, global warming

Things to Come

The Second Civil War and Beyond

Best of OC 2004: Part 5

The Second Civil War and Beyond

An Informed Citizenry

The Second Civil War and Beyond

Without Sin?

Noam Chomsky looks at American foreign policy after Sept. 11

One Word: Plastics

A utopian future and a dystopian now

Math-geek Shine

Also, The Shipping News

Rage Against the Radio

Also, The Shipping News

Sequelitis Hits Gaming!

Are megamergers healthy for the industry?

In Light of Braff: Five Bizarre Internet Hoaxes

Flickr user Thor Arvid​The world thought  Scrubs actor Zach Braff was dead yesterday for a few hours--suicide, they said. Turns out, it was just a Scrubs fan that had created a faker CNN page in 2007 that somehow resurfaced. In an age where someone's Wikipedia page is edited spookily quick to ... More >>

Are You Really, Really, Really, Really, Really, REALLY Into Computer Game Platforms?

​"Think Inside the Box: Platform Studies" is the topic of the next Center for Computer Games and Virtual Worlds Speakers Series presentation Friday at UC Irvine.Panelists are: Ian Bogost, associate professor of Literature, Communication and Culture at Georgia Institute of Technology; Nick Mon ... More >>

Porn-ing In America

A Reagan-era bacchanalia succumbs to soggy nostalgia in 'Take Me Home Tonight'

UC Irvine Shout Out On Top Chef Masters!

​On this week's episode of Top Chef Masters, the masters went back to school and were blinded with science--edible science! For the elimination challenge, they were paired with scientists from UCLA, Stanford, MIT, and our Anteaters. The task: create a dish that uses a scientific concept, and prese ... More >>

How Much of a Pendejo Is Gustavo?

[¡Ask a Mexican!] And why are cholos always wearing white shirts, shoes and socks?