I’ll bet that most of my readers use Google’s search engine.

And that many of them also watch videos on YouTube.

And use Gmail.

And Google Maps.

And maybe even Google Calendar.

They might even own [more...]

It’s too bad that they are constantly pressured to share their personal information with strangers on social networking sites.

Along with their private — or even intimate or embarrassing — photos.

And every detail about where they go, what they do, who they’re friends with, and much more.

But now, some teenagers are putting a whole new kind of pressure on each other. [more...]

Are there people in your life that you wish you could come back and haunt after you’re dead?

Or a secret love that you’re too embarrassed to declare in this life?

Is there anyone to whom you’d like to confess something, but not until after you’re gone?

Or a loved one to whom you’d like to [more...]

A few years ago, they were the unknown owners of a tiny boutique, selling snooty, overpriced fashion to snooty, overpaying customers.

Then one of them “accidentaly” released a sex tape.

And, all of a sudden, they became “a brand.”

With more [more...]

We’ve all seen it — in movies and in television programs.

The main character — who has apparently never played poker before in his life — somehow finds himself — it’s always a man — playing in a high-stakes poker game.

And promptly loses all of his money, along with his car, his home, his wife’s fur coat, and his childrens’ college fund.

In steps a good friend who enters the game with $5 and quickly [more...]

One everning several weeks ago, I was in Walmart, when I heard Christmas music coming over the store’s sound system.

Almost a month before Thanksgiving.

Nearly two months before Christmas.

I’m a man of faith, so Christmas is a sacred time for me.

But I got over [more...]

As humans, we owe the survival of our species to our ability control the often-dangerous world around us.

So we’re kind of hard-wired to try to do that as much as possible.

And, to help us, we invent technologies.

Only later do we realize that the inventions that we’ve embraced have [more...]

If you know much about physics — or just about science in general — you’ve probably experienced it.

You’re watching a movie, and something incredible happens onscreen.

A little voice inside you cries out, “Hey, that could never happen!”

So you announce that fact to [more...]