When I got my LG Tone HBS-700 wireless Bluetooth stereo headset last Christmas, I was a little wary. Oh, I’d done my research. I’d read all the stellar reviews on Amazon.com, and I’d compared the $52.00 HBS-700 to dozens of...
A MadeByMark reader asks via email: “The Sonos system you recommended sounds cool, but is pretty expensive. Any alternatives you’d recommend for lower budgets?” Why, yes: the Jawbone Jambox wireless portable speaker. Especially if...
Is anyone else using Spotify yet? I snagged an invite and bought a month’s worth of the premium Spotify membership this weekend. The Mac desktop software is attractive and easy to use. Search is fast. The service is speedy (tracks play as...
We’ve been curious about Clear’s 4G service for more than a year. We’ve also been looking for a fast mobile connectivity option for use around town. So when Clear ran a special this week on the iSpot (their 4G mobile hotspot exclusively for iOS...
As a kid, I had a passion for Steven King novels. I remember with pleasure the genuine creepiness of ;Salem's Lot and the epic scope of The Stand ... the erotic undertones of Carrie and the palpable tension of the Dead Zone ... the dawning horror of...
Imagine that: - Death has been cured. Get hit by a bus? Have a stroke? Get murdered? Your consciousness will be restored from your last backup and downloaded into a freshly cloned body. In forty-eight hours, you're good to go. - Energy is free and...
"The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible" (A. J. Jacobs) Could you, personally, keep every commandment in the Bible? Could you live without breaking any one of those commandments for an...
George Washington was not the first President of the United States. Columbus did not believe that the earth was flat. America is not named for Amerigo Vespucchi. Galileo was not the first to suggest that the sun was the center of the solar system...
Everything You Know about God is Wrong -- not a book for the faint-hearted -- is a book of essays and articles documenting the darker side of faith. The condescending tone so popular in atheistic and humanistic literature these days mars many...
To pass time during our six-hour round-trip to New Albany for the family 4th of July celebration, Clyde and I listened to Anderson Cooper's new book, Dispatches from the Edge. In the book, against a backdrop of man-made and natural disasters (like...