Small wine estates dying in Bordeaux

Small wine estates dying in Bordeaux

Tucked between the vast winery-estates of LVMH, Rothschild and Credit Suisse, small wine estates owned by vignerons, or traditional wine makers, form the backbone of the wine regions. These small estates are rustic at the most, and what others would call stone sheds and dirt floors, they call their wine facilities....

Protoss, Terran and Zergs' college adventure: StarCraft course comes to U of F

Protoss, Terran and Zergs’ college adventure: StarCraft course comes to U of F

Now you can actually tell your mom that your logged hours battling Zerg swarm and harvesting minerals for your Terran troops are legitimate collegiate homework. That is, if you’re studying in the University of Florida and taking Professor Poling’s class....

Why learn French when you can't speak it?

Why learn French when you can’t speak it?

The arguments for learning another foreign language, from an Anglophone standpoint, are hardly encouraging if you have neither job nor migration prospects. And often they could be downright silly, like wanting to do an accent devoted to spot-on cultural jokes. Students who try as much to reorganize their brains for rough translations, pronoun transpositions, syntax–all [...]...

Bolt ponders switch to football

Bolt ponders switch to football

About two decades ago, the sporting world was stunned when then three-time NBA champion Michael Jordan retired from basketball and traded the spheroid for a baseball mitt. Today, a decade and a half after Jordan’s infamous switch move, another superstar athlete at the top of his game is flirting with a similar idea. Apparently, Jamaican sprinter Usain [...]...

The Citroen DS4 makes a debut

The Citroen DS4 makes a debut

Citroen’s DS fleet continues its path of motoring mastery with the release of its latest model, the DS4. Combining the elegance of a coupe with the efficiency of a modern green car, the DS4 is compact as it is powerful....

Dell unveils two laptops for entrepreneurs

Dell unveils two laptops for entrepreneurs

Dell, the world’s third largest computer brand, unveiled their latest laptop series focused on small-to-medium businesses’ needs. After recently launching the ultrathin Vostro V13, Dell introduced last week the new Vostro 3000 series and welcomed the new additions to the Latitude E-family laptops—Latitude models E4310, E5410 and E5510....

New world order in basketball?

New world order in basketball?

Under a week into the 2010 FIBA World Championships, perennial favorite USA and 2006 world champion Spain came, saw, and sadly for their fans, were sometimes conquered by their underrated rivals....

Laser guns to replace air pistols in next Olympics

Laser guns to replace air pistols in next Olympics

Even if they are not exactly Ray Guns, the laser pistols modernizes the 98-year old Olympic Pentathlon....

Top reasons you can't write

Top reasons you can’t write

I don’t know exactly how many motivated writers there are the world over, but if there were a lot my local coffee shop could probably seat me now. That’s because the writers I’m talking about do not need coffee, cocaine nor deadlines to go stringing. They’re the types who jump out of bed staring George [...]...

Watch Buried while buried

Watch Buried while buried

The new Ryan Reynolds’ starrer Buried will be having a gala screening at this year’s Fantastic Fest, and in true Fantastic Fest fashion, invites four daring individuals to experience the film the way it was meant to be seen: underground. And we don’t mean hipster-underground. We mean literal underground....

Dell enters US smartphone market

Dell enters US smartphone market

The smartphone arena just got hotter and more crowded with Dell finally entering the US market after years of speculation about its intentions. The all new Dell Aero is the latest Android kid in the block, featuring a 3.5-inch touchscreen and a five megapixel camera with 8x digital zoom and flash. Not impressed? Dell claims [...]...

Japan dominates Pokemon championships, natch

Japan dominates Pokemon championships, natch

They caught ‘em all, alright. The best Pokémon players from all over the world have gathered last August 13-15 at the Hilton Waikaloa Village in Hawaii as they competed for the title of the Pokémon World Champ 2010....

Gmail lets users make voice calls

Gmail lets users make voice calls

You thought it was cool to chat with friends on your computer via Gmail. Now Google’s email service has taken that innovation a step further as it allows voice calls to and from any phone. Eliminating at least one telecommunications carrier in the process, Gmail users can now place and/or receive calls between Gmail-active computers [...]...

The biggest box-office fails of all time

The biggest box-office fails of all time

There are movies that are made to thrive and be recalled by title, and then there are the ones destined to be relegated to the “what-was-that-movie-where-that-guy-did-this” tier. And then, there are the movies that suck from the very outset—so much so that people refuse to see them even before critics could begin their ranting....

Digicam dos and don'ts

Digicam dos and don’ts

It is not the gear but the person using it, a photography saying goes. If you’re snapping with a hand-me-down 3-pixel digital camera that you’re praying to die already so you can get a new one, you’re probably wishing whoever thought of that is right. It goes without saying that digital cameras are pretty sleek [...]...

Internet access makes it easier to find love

Internet access makes it easier to find love

Love seems to be everywhere and nowhere, especially in this age of dating sites and social networking via the ever-powerful Internet. However, even as CNN reports that about 43% of Americans are single, a recent study at the Stanford University reveals that having home access to the information superhighway actually increases your chance at finding The One....

Durham University to offer Harry Potter course

Durham University to offer Harry Potter course

The chance to study magic in J.K. Rowling’s hit made-up world may not have slipped through your fingers yet, and you don’t even need to have an IUD-shaped scar on your forehead. If you’re enrolled at the Durham University in the UK, chances are you can relive all your wizarding fantasies through a Harry-Potter-themed course set for next year....

Federer ends title drought with Cincinnati win

Federer ends title drought with Cincinnati win

In the last seven months that Roger Federer has been plagued by a title drought, critics have predicted his decline. But the Swiss tennis star turned his slumping season around to win the Cincinnati title a week before the US Open. Just when some naysayers were ready to count him out of the upcoming US [...]...