Parthenis fashion video for your eyes only after its successful first presentation last night at Yoga Bala. Video by Roberta Nitsos

Years ago I ran into an American woman who had spent part of her childhood in Iran. I remember her saying that if you were in Iran and you sent a package to an Arab country in the Persian Gulf, if you specified that it go by the Arabian Gulf it would never get there. Likewise, if you were in one...

Here is a piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education about misbehaving college students. In the first few comments I read, the idea seemed to be that such students are the result of Republicans. But who was it who insisted that we “question authority?” How could anyone think that college profess...

Lots of liberals and leftists talk about American imperialism, but it’s worth taking a hard look at this concept to see how it stands up. I’ve already talked about this in response to a commenter on this blog, but it’s worth doing as a separate post. Let me begin by talking about killing. Down ...

As far as Tetris goes, most variations look quite similar. You're usually looking at a "wall" of bricks directly from the front. Torus takes that notion and throws it away; as you might have guessed from the name (or screenshot), this Tetris clone is played on a ring-like 3D surface. You rot...

The Court of Justice has handed down a very significant Opinion in Case Opinion 1/09 on the compatibility with EU law of a draft agreement which aims to set up a new European Patent Court system. We’ve written about that before. The Opinion is significant because of the manner in which the Court...

Catching up a bit on some judgments handed down before the summer break. The judgment in Case C-8/08 T-Mobile Netherlands BV v. NMa is all about what constitutes a concerted practice according to Article 81 §1 EC. The story goes like this. There are five licensed mobile phone operators in the Net...

Wow! I cannot believe that we have not gone live since September 2009, but I have been engaged in taking the Edutainment & Convergence digital portal to the next level by developing the Edutainment site on Vox with work for my students and by collaborating with my friend and Olympic Gold Medalis...

Panasonic wants 3D eyewear and displays to be compatible regardless of what product brands you choose. Their newly-conceived standard for active-shutter eyewear, M-3DI, is their plan to make that happen. So far, 10 companies are on board, including Funai, Hitachi, Mistubishi, Panasonic, Se...

As you may have read by now, earlier tonight, Amazon dropped a bomb on their rivals in the online music space: a fully working cloud storage and playback system. And it's not just working on desktop web browsers, it works on Android devices too. One important place it doesn't work though: iPhone...

Gary Vaynerchuk is a busy guy. I don't expect him to pick up the phone every time I call. After all, he's on a book tour or something, and busy tweeting, and drinking wine. But then I saw the picture above. Yup, that's Gary V on his cell phone in front of a poster advertising his new book, The ...

After all my criticism of the way Gatorade A.M. was first pitched on the bottle, you'd think I would bash Gatorade A.M.'s advertising. But I love it. Because it's right. They pitched it as the Gatorade with morning flavors, which is exactly how I said they should have pitched it in the beginning...

I'm pretty sure after a full day of hearing out plenty of people on this issue that the majority of America doesn't think that Gatorade's new commercial for its Gatorade A.M. is racist. Analyze what you want, but the whole thing basically falls apart when you realize that Kareem is watering his ...

I am sad to tell everyone that Mocha passed away tonight. I will post more later but I thought you should know.

Today marks the first day of the winter semester, but if you're imagining Timothy Bottoms and John Houseman matching wits, you've got the wrong idea. The first few weeks of classes are dedicated to course shopping, in which students cram into the most popular courses hoping to land one of the pr...