Mike Thinks News

Its a fine like between security and stupidity, a line that seems to get crossed quite regularly these days.  I know you all have heard about the TSA and its determination to fondle their way into a secure airport!  Yea, thats a little extreme, but it isn't that far off the truth.  You just cant...

Theres a transformation in the way we consume many forms of media these days.  Television is changing from appointment TV to on demand.  Movies are moving from the theater to your home theater.  Music has nearly crested the hump from CD's to MP3 files.  So it should come as no chock that your li...

For many of us, a good television program means much more than just a few minutes of mild entertainment. Its a way to escape the everyday grind, a way to explore our imagination and to allow our hopes and fears to be transformed into an idea we can share with out friends. Its what binds together s...

There are few things as harrowing to someone as buying their 1st new car.  Now I know your thinking, wow, thats kind of harsh...after all buying a new car is supposed to be fun Mike, isn't it?  Well, Im not sure what its supposed to be, but I do know that its full of pitfalls and disasters awaitin...

Do you remember when we did the story a few years ago on LifeLock?  Ya, know the one where the owner who likes to showboat around with his Social Security number on a truck billboard.  All the while claiming how safe he is because that may be his real Social Security number, but he is protected by...

Its no secret that time marches on, every day we are reminded about how things change.  Some days these changes are small, while others have magnitude that may cause you to question the very foundation of your day to day beliefs.  Sue time works out well for most of our everyday common place exper...

This week broke a few very interesting stories.  First we have Apple taking the fight against all things titillating and taking the now familiar step of banishing apps from the iTunes store aka super Jobs nirvana land.  Seems that someone had the nerve to make apps that had cleavage and bare chest...

So this week it comes to light that Iran would like to be its own email client...seems they realized just how much information Google is able to glean by reading all your emails (you do know they do that right?)  Anyway, so now if you live in Iran you get the privileged of using the state sponsored...

There comes a time when you just have to laugh at the complete lunacy of  some of the things we have to deal with on an every day basis.  Hot dogs come in 10's but the buns come in 8's,  Turn signals make it harder to change lanes, and of course, you cant talk about the baseball game you just we...

There is a definite disconect  between the music industry and many of its fans, and this is not big news.  What is news is the amazingly inept ways in which old bands and old media try to become hip and cool, come up with a pretty good idea...yet still manage to find the songle most boneheaded way...