The great Pacific garbage reality - Los Angeles Times
26 May 2012, 7:28 am
For months, West Coast residents have been bracing for an onslaught of items drifting toward us since last spring's tsunami in northeastern Japan, which swept apartment buildings, cars, even entire villages, into the sea. Now we are seeing the ...

reality Check: Local singer grateful 'to ride the wave' created by 'Idol' - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
25 May 2012, 10:59 pm
Crowning of the 11th "American Idol" took more than two hours, what appeared to be several tons of confetti, plus an Aerosmith performance. Even by "Idol" standards, this thing was over the top. Former contestant Ace Young proposed marriage to another ...

reality Bites: Why 'The Real L Word' Is Bad for Lesbians - Huffington Post
25 May 2012, 8:29 pm
Ask any queer girl: When it comes to gaydar, haircuts count. Surely not every pixie-haired chick out there is hiding steamy Sapphic fantasies inside her carefully pomaded head, and I've met plenty of lesbians with hair that looks straight in ...

The reality behind Obama and Bush’s ‘spending binge’ - Washington Post
25 May 2012, 11:46 am
The key is fiscal year 2009 -- and who you blame for it. By any measure, spending popped that year. If you’re looking at raw dollars, it rose by $535 billion. And “the 2009 fiscal year,” writes Market Watch’s Rex Nutting, “which Republicans count ...

Theo Epstein is getting a dose of reality, seeing the Cubs in all their gory - Chicago Sun-Times
24 May 2012, 9:56 pm
I wish Theo Epstein no ill will, but there’s a part of me, the part from my head to my toes, that’s pleased he’s getting a taste of what Cubs fans have gone through these last 100 years or so. While he had known nothing but success in ...

Kate Gosselin Surprised Networks Unwilling To Sign New reality Show - Huffington Post
23 May 2012, 5:37 am
Kate Gosselin has made it no secret that she wants to return to TV, following the cancellation of her TLC series "Kate Plus 8." However, landing a new gig is proving to be much harder than she thought. “Kate had no idea it would be this ...

Kermit swings on your boo-boo with augmented reality Band-Aids - Los Angeles Times
22 May 2012, 6:52 pm
Your boo-boo routine just got an upgrade. Thanks to a new augmented reality app from Johnson & Johnson, Muppet branded Band-Aids can now function essentially like QR codes, letting animated Muppet characters talk to you from wherever you've ...

Facebook shares sink 11 percent as reality overtakes hype - Reuters
21 May 2012, 6:39 pm
(Reuters) - Facebook shares sank 11 percent in the first day of trading without the full support of the company's underwriters, leaving some investors down almost 25 percent from where they were Friday and driving others to switch back to more ...

Dial-up Internet still a reality for hundreds of thousands in Canada - Calgary Herald
21 May 2012, 10:04 am
TORONTO — The next time you get frustrated because a website refuses to load instantly, or a streaming video has to buffer for a few seconds, think of the surprisingly large number of Canadians still on dial-up. According to a few different estimates ...

Augmented reality adds a new dimension to planning decisions - The Guardian
18 May 2012, 5:46 pm
Planning is the source of some of the fiercest debate in public life. Local residents often misunderstand how a new development will look when finished, or how it will affect the surrounding area. As the diggers move in and developments begin to ...