Dan Shaughnessy: It's college football season everywhere -- except in Boston

The college football season is underway and nobody cares in New England.

A Labor Day speech from many years ago by a non-president named Dwight Eisenhower

How Labor Day speeches have changed in recent decades.

The 'eerie' sound of a high male voice

Mercury Prize-nominated Wild Beasts singer Hayden Thorpe is only the latest in a long line of ‘eerie’-sounding men

Starr report

Bernadette Castro and her family have revived the Castro Convertibles brand online -- and will announce a partnership with a major retailer, most likely Macy's, by the end of the year. So why is this information in a TV column? Well, people of a certain age will remember that...

Blog - MapRejuice Is SETI@Home on Steroids

Millions of Web surfers have spare computer cycles--why not use browsers to tap them? Unless a flash ad in one of your open browser tabs has gone rogue, it's likely you've got a few spare processor cycles available on the PC you're using to read this.