10 Zen Monkeys

46,800 people attended today's game. It's the last game the Oakland A's will ever play at the Coliseum — before the team moves to Sacramento for three years, and then on to Las Vegas. On the tr...

https://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2024/09/26/oaklands-last-home-game-ever-scenes-from-the-coliseum/

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/