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Fernando Tatis: Former Cardinal Rocks MS Paint Like Chan Ho Park

Fernando Tatis. Mention those two words to any St. Louis Cardinals fan worth his/her salt, and you'll transport them back fourteen years to an April ballgame in Los Angeles. Tatis, the Cardinals third baseman, had already hit one grand slam off Dodgers pitcher Chan Ho Park in the third inning when h ... More >>

The New Cold War: On the frontlines of the costliest battle in the high-tech world

The Ten Most Egregious Tax Loopholes in the U.S.

Frances Madeson's Madison County Crier Will Make You Ashamed to Be a Liberal

Frances Madeson was a Missouri girl who moved to New York City. After her marriage ended, she left the big, bad city and moved to Farmington in Madison County, about an hour and a half south of St. Louis, where she set up a business writing letters and resumes for the good country people. Soon enou ... More >>

The Best of Covers of Mario Paint, Unlikely Video Game Composition Forefather

Mario is a versatile video game character. In his long career in the digital world, Mario raced go-karts, fought adversaries in hand-to-hand combat and even got kidnapped to teach kids about geography. Yet Nintendo's plumber extraordinaire may have inadvertently been a trailblazer in the realm of v ... More >>

Five Unnervingly Specific Facts About Miranda Cosgrove Wikipedia's SOPA Blackout Kept You From Knowing

​Wikipedia's decision to black out on Wednesday in support of the efforts against SOPA and PIPA hurt a lot of demographics--high schoolers looking for paraphrases to paraphrase, search engine optimizers who kind of hoped Wikipedia would be shut down, people who needed an episode guide for A Mi ... More >>

Photo Shows RFT Reporters on Enemies List of Accused Clayton Bomber, Milton "Skip" Ohlsen

Fox 2The "enemies" list with "Chad Garrison" and "Kristen" in the center, below Post-It notes with the names of Ohlsen's ex-wife, her divorce attorney and others.​On Wednesday, KTVI Fox 2 aired evidence seized from the downtown loft of accused Clayton bomber, Milton "Skip" Ohlsen, that confirms de ... More >>

Robot Overlords to Use Delicious Breakfasts to Conquer Humanity

Hanna-BarberaRosie the Robot lures the Jetsons with delcious food.​You know it's just a matter of time before the robots take over, and they're developing skills to make their coups so clean we'll gladly follow them anywhere. The robots are making breakfast. An American robot named James, ... More >>

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Salmonella Patients Testify in Congressional Food Safety Hearings

As reported yesterday, several giant egg farms are testifying before Congress after last month's massive salmonella recall. Also testifying - several people sickened in the outbreak, including a 77-year-old Colorado grandmother who nearly died from salmonella-related septic shock. Despite not being ... More >>

Bada-Bing! St. Louis Graphic Design Firm Sues Microsoft Over Trademark

St. Louis-based design shop, Bing!, last week filed suit against Microsoft over the software giant's use of the name Bing for its new search engine. The suit filed in St. Louis Circuit Court alleges "trademark infringement, unfair competition, and tortious interference with business expectancy." www ... More >>

Mac Users Get Google Chrome (Finally)

​Yesterday Google made the the beta version of the Chrome Web browser available for Mac and Linux users. This is almost exactly a year after the browser was launched (in beta) for Windows. Why the long delay? Nobody knows. It's very likely the case that Google was concentrating its efforts at aimi ... More >>

Oh iPhone! Is there Anything You CAN'T Do?

It takes photos, plays music and video, you can browse the web, it even catches criminals. What can't the iPhone do? Not much, apparently. Apple's iPhone store has been an incredible success -- 2.4 billion worth of success. Proving that the iPhone is way more than just a phone. It's the worlds first ... More >>

RFT Reporters Make Milton "Skip" Ohlsen's Shit List, Court Records Show

Milton H. "Skip" Ohlsen​Milton H. "Skip" Ohlsen is in federal custody awaiting sentencing on weapons and bank fraud charges. As has been reported in recent days, Ohlsen is also a person of interest in the bombing that hurt attorney John Gillis last year. No charges have been filed in that case. So ... More >>

Ten Tech Releases to Look for this Fall

Photo by Marcin Wichary via Flickr​It's August. The economy is bad. Things are slow, but technology marches on. In spite of the global economic slowdown, there will still be plenty of new high-tech products to look forward to this fall. A lot of them will actually be cheaper (even Apple has lowere ... More >>

Text Adventure: Words get in the way of an otherwise stellar Lost Odyssey

Rick Majerus lips off? That's a spankin'.

Unreal talks to a dominatrix and gets schooled in sherlocking.

Mormon Accents

The Mexican calls out Romney and explains how to type in Spanish.

Future Shock

Mass Effect is riveting — and a bit aggravating, too.

Daily Web Crawl

Hype Machine

Does Halo 3 live up to its billing?

Daily Web Crawl

Three's a Charm

A promising glimpse of the next Halo.

Homespun: Superfun Yeah Yeah Rocketship

Chest Hair (self-released)

Oscar Mayer Fast Franks
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You Play, They Pay

How much should it cost Internet radio operators like Jim and Wanda Atkinson to satisfy your cravings for streaming rock & roll?

Next Big Things

The five biggest attention-getters at E3.

Back to the Future

The Xbox Live Arcade is a high-tech twist on the old-fashioned coin-op.

They've Got Game

Barbarians, brain-eaters, and beagles round out the best of 2005.

Generation Next

Microsoft's Xbox 360 fires the first shot in the next-gen console war.

They've Got Game

Barbarians, brain-eaters and beagles round out the best of 2005

Generation Next

Microsoft's Xbox 360 fires the first shot in the next-gen console war

Near Perfect

Perfect Dark Zero isn't a bull's-eye, but it hits the target.

Dark Alleys

Chris Browne's bowling documentary has gloom to spare

Jerry Baby!

We try to track down Jerry Berger, investigate what Carnahan is doing on the Flipside and learn about a Cosmological Flight Machine; plus, Bill Haas dishes the dirt and Unreal gets schooled at a "Rock, Paper, Scissors" tourney

Letters

Week of July 7, 2004

History-Making Flight

The X Prize is back on the map

Another Steakout

Don't let the Lou become the sole property of Bloosiers; plus, we try to go on a wholesome date (to Mel's new movie, perhaps?), visit one of the few remaining typewriter stores, learn a thing or two about balls and make some super suggestions for Lambert

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Week of October 8, 2003

Do the Math

The music industry says online piracy's killing the biz. Stan Liebowitz says otherwise.

Do the Math

The music industry says online piracy's killing the biz. A UTD prof says it ain't.

Flaming Wreck

Owen Wilson goes down Behind Enemy Lines and lands in familiar terrain

Series/Festivals

Week of November 14, 2001

Hack Mentality

At 28, Spuds has become a cybersage for the young and the reckless. Now he's gone straight.

Billy Club

A simple, happy message helped him become the nation's favorite preacher. Thanks to a Popsicle-slick PR machine and a talent for dodging tough questions, we've forgotten what Billy Graham is really all about.

South City International

News of the Weird

Going the Distance

The Internet is changing distance learning -- and higher education

The Silver Age

Influential electronic-music pioneer Morton Subotnick appears as part of UM-St. Louis's art and technology conference

Ice Land

Grease evolves into a figure-skating show with Nancy Kerrigan as Sandy