Suspect in PlayStation 3 robbery killed A teenager accused of robbing a student of two new Playstation 3s on the day the popular game consoles were introduced was shot to death by police sent to arrest him. Peyton Strickland, 18, was killed Friday at a house he shared with three roommates, New Hanover County Sheriff Sid Causey said. “If this boy would’ve come to the door, opened the door, we

Our new global climate change religion must not be undermined by climo-caust deniers, according to Senators Jay Rockefeller and Olympia Snowe: Mr. Rex W. Tillerson Chairman and Chief Executive Officer ExxonMobil Corporation 5959 Las Colinas Boulevard Irving, TX 75039 Dear Mr. Tillerson: Allow us to take this opportunity to congratulate you on your first year as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the ExxonMobil Corporation. You will become the public

Koffi Inane, pulling his best Jimmah expression, cast into words his sorrow with the situation in Iraq in a BBC interview: Iraq’s national security adviser says he is shocked by UN head Kofi Annan’s suggestion that the average Iraqi is worse off than under Saddam Hussein. Mouwaffaq al-Rubaie also accused the UN of shying away from its responsibility towards the Iraqi people. The UN secretary general, who leaves office after

Kristin Chenoweth made a huge impression as the ditzy girlfriend, Lily St. Regis, in the Disney version of Annie. She was absolutely fantastic. I can still hear her screeching, “But I ain’t the motherin’ type!” Who knew that she’s a Christian, that bird so rare in New York City that it must be profiled in the Times? Well, she is and she’s peeved gays and Christians alike. She dares to

Immigration is on many people’s minds today, especially the illegal variety.  In fact, I think that any time you mention immigration, the “illegal” part is automatically connected in many minds (including my own) unless some other words are thrown in to qualify it. Like many people here, I think illegal immigration is a serious problem that requires serious people to fix it.  Our president and congress are apparently not those

Ex-spy’s poisoning reads like a thriller It’s a murder mystery filled with intrigue reminiscent of the Cold War — there’s a retired Russian spy poisoned by a radioactive substance, a secret dossier, a slain investigative journalist and a shadowy fugitive billionaire. But the story of the agonizing death of Alexander Litvinenko is an up-to-the-minute tale of politics, power and betrayal. And the final chapter of this spy thriller has not

at the BBC’s “Have Your Say”: What impact will the Pope’s Turkey visit have? How important is the Pope’s visit? The Pope has wrapped up his trip to Turkey by saying Mass in a Catholic cathedral in Istanbul, and issuing a plea for freedom of religion in Turkey. The four-day visit was seen as an attempt to repair the damage his comments on Islam in September caused across the Muslim

In the low-tax Swiss canton of Zug, Lived a man up whose ass dwelt no bug; Folks asked, would he care For a new derriere? “No!” answered the insolent thug.

As many of you know, I’m a bit of a film buff—and my DVD collection contains thousands of titles.  So I’m wondering:  is it feasible to build a media server that can hold that many DVDs on a hard drive array (I figure I’d probably need 15-20 tb)?  If so, how would I go about it, and what other equipment would I need to operate / organize the server?  I

Richard Miniter starts his column about the release of new information on the flying imams by saying, “The case of U.S. Airways flight 300 gets stranger by the minute.” Well, not to me.  My first thought when I read about the incident was that it was exactly what passenger and witness “Pauline” says it was in a letter to U.S. Airways, a stunt to get airlines to ease up on