One of the biggest frustrations with buying a new computer or printer is knowing that the shiny, sleek, and fast machine you just shelled out good money for, will be obsolete within 6 months to a year and absolutely unusable and archaic in 5 to 10 years.
While some people hang on to their old computers for a variety of reasons – to protect their data or as a back up in case the new machine goes kaput– a truly unique reason to hang on to those old clunkers is for …

There’s no doubt the emergence of OctoMom and her incredible brood of octuplets (not to mention her other 6 children) has sparked some fierce debates.
Articles ranging from her look (did she change it to look like Angelina Jolie?) to the issue of forced sterilization to a career in porn to help support her “cheaper by the dozen” (wait make that baker’s dozen +1) have emerged with everyone from Dr. Phil to Oprah weighing in.
Recently a 911 call surfaced where she thought she had lost a child (this was when …

Nowadays no one can really say or do anything without the digital world recording, uploading, and distributing it.
Politicians aren’t immune to this – imagine all the Bushisms we would have missed had technology not been there to record them or if we had never heard about Sarah Palin’s reading habits (or lack there of) or that she can see Russia from her backyard.
Recently, the verbal blunder that has garnered the most attention is Christian Bale’s almost 4 minute, profanity-laced tirade against Terminator:Salvation’s director of photography . The rant has not …

While Super Bowl has come and gone, albeit with an admittedly nail-biting 4th quarter and an amazing, game-winning catch by Santonio Holmes, what people are really talking about this week are those $6 million a minute commercial spots.
So what’s the one commercial you can’t stop talking about and has it already made its way into your vocabulary? Was it Conan’s Vroom Vroom Party Starter? Alec Baldwin explaining Hulu’s “brain softening” effects?
Which gave you LMAO syndrome?  Was it E*TRADE’s cynical baby talking about the economy and his time …

Just in time for the New Year, we’ve upgraded and changed our site with a new look. After much deliberation and input from our users and a lot of hours from our great design team, we’ve made the site easier to navigate, with bigger, clearer icons and the most up-to-date, popular content front and center.
Our embeddable players have gotten a face lift too, so be sure to check out the players page to see how your sound bites will look in blogs, forums, and web sites. Have suggestions? Let us …

StoryCorps’ National Day of Listening is just around the corner, so as you travel across the country or across town to spend Thanksgiving with family and friends, consider taking some time while that turkey is roasting, to record, upload, and share stories to the National Day of Listening page.
As one of the largest oral history projects of its kind, StoryCorps helps people honor and celebrate one another’s lives through listening.