10 Zen Monkeys

Sudoku puzzles have only one solution. And then directly above an easy-level Sudoku puzzle my local newspaper also published another grid-like math puzzle. "Try to beat today's challenge time..."...

https://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2021/12/08/when-a-newspaper-publishes-an-unsolvable-puzzle/

Today as president Joe Biden signed the law making Juneteenth a federal holiday, vice president Kamala Harris delivered her own introductory remarks. Visibly choked with emotion, she succinctly s...

https://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2021/06/17/kamala-harris-on-juneteenth/

"One way we still win this election is by turning it into a referendum on China," one Trump campaign advisor bluntly admitted this week to the Los Angeles Times. That's why Trump keeps calling it...

https://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2020/04/10/whats-behind-the-coronavirus-lab-origin-hoax/

A funny thing happened when I searched Amazon for the soundtrack to Marvel's upcoming superhero blockbuster, Captain Marvel. The first match is, of course, "Captain Marvel Soundtrack" -- but it's...

https://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2019/02/25/the-great-captain-marvel-soundtrack-scam/

It all started in a desert. In a vast landscape with weird buttes and ancient Indian petroglyphs, a friend described a strange film-maker (and local legend) with his own weird story about selling...

https://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2017/07/10/amazons-secret-bad-erotic-video-auteur/

"We take misinformation seriously," Facebook's CEO posted Saturday. Right next to two very obvious pieces of misinformation... Note the lying advertisers to the right of his status update? (No, H...

https://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2016/11/22/mark-zuckerberg-is-a-hypocrite/

                                                         Image inspired by the Cyrus Borg_A minifig  Scammers pretending to be from Dell ...

https://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2016/01/04/dell-computers-has-been-hacked/

After more than a decade of development, 61-year-old Larry Wall stunned the world by releasing a new version of his 1987 programming language.

https://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2015/10/06/the-night-larry-wall-unveiled-perl-6/

We're big fans of good old-fashioned hedonism — and throughout centuries, pleasure-lovers have sung the praises of wine, women, song. But here's an interesting historical diagram which tells th...

https://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2014/03/24/how-we-almost-lost-wine-forever/

No. But this is going to be a really short article without some additional context... Those cute little girls selling cookies around your neighbor are delivering junk-food snacks that are astonis...

https://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2014/02/18/are-girl-scout-cookies-healthy/

It didn't take a government shutdown to eliminate the government's healthcare exchange, just some overloaded web servers! A historic moment in technology failures that begs for a little sassy com...

https://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2013/10/01/obamacare-day-one/

The stories you haven't heard about the former star of Walt's Disney Mickey Mouse Club -- including the death threat on her wedding day, Annette's unusual connection to Devo, her reaction to one ...

https://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2013/04/08/five-strange-facts-about-the-life-of-annette-funicello/

Besides reviewing movies, Roger Ebert lived a life filled with delightful moments, including brushes with Oprah Winfrey, Bill O'Reilly, Russ Meyer, and of course, Gene Siskel. BY DESTINY

https://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2013/04/05/my-favorite-roger-ebert-stories/

By Destiny

https://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2012/10/25/the-eight-geekiest-halloween-costume-ideas/

Marketplace Morning Edition reports that it's the end of all sex as we know it. Unless their transcriber just made a very big mistake...BY LOU CABRON

https://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2012/07/01/public-radios-enormous-typo/

1. The Greatest Story Ever Told I'm a fan — and there's one song Davy Jones should be remembered by. In 1986, the 41-year-old former teen idol recorded his own secret anthem. I think of it as h...

https://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2012/02/29/seven-forgotten-classics-by-davy-jones/

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo shattered publishing records as both a book and an e-book. But one of Amazon's top-selling Kindle bloggers reveals the dark secrets that haunted its author. BY ME...

https://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2011/12/20/the-secrets-of-stieg-larsson/

Why the prolific author sees sex, lies, videotape and zombies in our dystopian, new media future — and what he's learned today about violence, gender, paranormal phenomenon, and WikiLeaks. BY ...

https://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2011/10/31/why-thomas-s-roche-dreams-of-a-zombie-apocalypse/

R.U. Sirius remembers when he recorded an album for Trent Reznor's label as part of an aborted six-album deal for the world's first virtual reality band. BY LOU CABRON

https://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2011/05/30/resurrecting-reznors-90s-discovery-mondo-vanilli-an-interview/

As America settles in tonight for the 45th broadcast of "A Charlie Brown Christmas," YouTube is revealing one of Charlie Brown's strangest secrets. Though it was the first animated Peanuts specia...

https://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2010/12/07/the-secret-history-of-charlie-browns-christmas/