George Carlin, the influential comedian whose routines used profanity, scatology and absurdity to point out the silliness and hypocrisy of human life, has died. He was 71.
Ancient symbols of power and virility, beards have gone hand-and-chin with computers at least as far back as the Home Brew Computer Club and the early days of Unix. Let's face it, engineers are better known for software than fashion sense, and nothing says "I have been holed up for the last month in a cubicle swilling Mountain Dew and coding in Objective-C" than stubble gone to seed.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown consulted with his Iraqi counterpart Wednesday, following the release of a video showing a British national who was kidnapped in Iraq.
Sometimes a guy just can't be bothered to grow a full beard. Just ask scruffily sexy Johnny
Depp, follicly challenged Deal or No Deal's Howie Mandel or Britney Spears's latest beau,
Adnan Ghalib, who sports a skinny strip on his chin. They're all walking advertisements for the soul patch – that stray patch of hair just hanging out beneath their lower lip. Better yet, look at Hulk Hogan: The wrester/reality star has been sporting his handlebar 'stache for, um, ever! Call them creative or just daring, but not every man can work that kind of facial hair.
Vote for who you think wears it best.
Other than growing a beard that made him look like Rip Van Winkle in a tailored suit, how did David Letterman choose to spend the two months off from his late night show?
Here are four gadgets - recommended by readers - that will make your work life easier: A razor that saves both time and your face; a backpack that looks good in the boardroom; a projector that fits into any startup's budget and a spill-proof cup that won't damage your computer keyboard.
Would you come here for a second? A little closer. Okay, I'm going to ask you a question, and I want you to answer honestly. Can you see my mustache? No? You're sure? That's probably because I shaved this morning. Not with a real razor; I used one of those little femmy things that looks like an eyeliner pencil, except on one end there's a blade which, if you hold the handle right, slices off hair. Egad, now you know.
George Carlin, the influential comedian whose routines used profanity, scatology and absurdity to point out the silliness and hypocrisy of human life, has died. He was 71.
Ancient symbols of power and virility, beards have gone hand-and-chin with computers at least as far back as the Home Brew Computer Club and the early days of Unix. Let's face it, engineers are better known for software than fashion sense, and nothing says "I have been holed up for the last month in a cubicle swilling Mountain Dew and coding in Objective-C" than stubble gone to seed.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown consulted with his Iraqi counterpart Wednesday, following the release of a video showing a British national who was kidnapped in Iraq.
Sometimes a guy just can't be bothered to grow a full beard. Just ask scruffily sexy Johnny
Depp, follicly challenged Deal or No Deal's Howie Mandel or Britney Spears's latest beau,
Adnan Ghalib, who sports a skinny strip on his chin. They're all walking advertisements for the soul patch – that stray patch of hair just hanging out beneath their lower lip. Better yet, look at Hulk Hogan: The wrester/reality star has been sporting his handlebar 'stache for, um, ever! Call them creative or just daring, but not every man can work that kind of facial hair.
Vote for who you think wears it best.
Other than growing a beard that made him look like Rip Van Winkle in a tailored suit, how did David Letterman choose to spend the two months off from his late night show?
Here are four gadgets - recommended by readers - that will make your work life easier: A razor that saves both time and your face; a backpack that looks good in the boardroom; a projector that fits into any startup's budget and a spill-proof cup that won't damage your computer keyboard.
Would you come here for a second? A little closer. Okay, I'm going to ask you a question, and I want you to answer honestly. Can you see my mustache? No? You're sure? That's probably because I shaved this morning. Not with a real razor; I used one of those little femmy things that looks like an eyeliner pencil, except on one end there's a blade which, if you hold the handle right, slices off hair. Egad, now you know.
Ah, glorious spring. Everything is in bloom, from flowers and trees to faces. The NHL remains the home of the traditional playoff beard, but some NBA players, such as Baron Davis and Rasheed Wallace, have thickened their mug rug for the postseason push. Die-hard fans, mostly of the male variety I assume, are also in on the fun, in solidarity with their teams.
The FBI on Tuesday released documents showing at least 26 of the agency's employees witnessed aggressive mistreatment and harsh interrogation techniques of prisoners by other government agencies or outside contractors at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
A man suspected of shooting three New York state troopers, one fatally, has joined the likes of alleged drug traffickers, child rapists, vicious murderers and al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
A gunman who fired on tourists in Jordan's capital Monday, killing one and wounding six, was probably acting alone, a Jordanian government spokesman said.
It was late January the next time we moved. It wouldn't take much to prompt a move: a helicopter overhead, wild dogs barking at night, a U.S. patrol in the vicinity.
For those at the fast end of the food chain, life gets more pressured and complicated every day. Phones ring. Messages pile up. Entire coming months hover in the mind, reeking with incident and thr...
The van was hot and stuffy, made even more uncomfortable by the fact CNN cameraman Adil Bradlow and I were wedged between masked gunmen in full battle gear, their index fingers tensely stroking the triggers of their AK-47 assault rifles.
THE MANHATTAN BLOCK THAT HOUSES THE ART of Shaving's flagship store is a preppy paradise. The main Brooks Brothers store is down the street, the Yale Club just around the corner. Inside the boutiqu...
Publicly blasting the United States one last time, al Qaeda terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui was formally sentenced to life in prison Thursday for his role in the September 11 attacks.
A clinical psychologist who has studied Zacarias Moussaoui for the past four years told jurors at his sentencing trial Monday that the al Qaeda plotter is mentally ill.
Al-Jazeera television has broadcast a 25-second, silent videotape showing three of four hostage Christian Peacemaker activists, and said that the men asked their governments and countries in the Persian Gulf to work for their release.
Most of us will be lounging about in our PJs this morning on account of the holiday. And that makes it a perfect time to give ourselves a corporate makeover.
Once upon a time, Harrison Ford was a carpenter. By many accounts he was a good one, a meticulous craftsman much in demand among the filmmaking community -- including (the story goes) George Lucas, who hired him to build cabinets for his house, a role that eventually led to Ford being cast as Han Solo in "Star Wars."
The company behind the new "Wallace and Gromit" film said Monday its "entire history" has been destroyed in a fire at a warehouse containing props and sets.
Country Music Television has selected its first "vice president" for the Dukes of Hazzard Institute. The first task for the New York-based executive: Upgrade the Institute's new facilities.
Screenwriter William Goldman once said the cardinal rule of Hollywood is "Nobody knows anything." Usually, Goldman is right -- even in a time of granular marketing and sequels to sequels, it's still hard to predict what will work and what will fail.
Anthony Logistics for Men Shave Center $50 Frustrated by the dearth of high-end men's grooming supplies, Anthony Sosnick, now 35, gave up his Detroit real estate--development job in 1998 to create ...
First impressions are everything, especially when it comes to job hunting. That's why executive coaches, career counselors and others put so much stock in "dressing for success."
To the children in the neighborhood, Balbir Singh Sodhi was a nice man. He let them play with their skateboards on the fresh asphalt around his new gas station and convenience store, and he gave th...
Allan Odell was tired. He'd been on the road for days, doing door-to-door sales for his father's business. But as he drove across rural Illinois in 1925, something caught his eye: a series of roads...
The last time FORTUNE visited Gillette, the company was having a very bad beard day. In the Nov. 8, 1999, issue, Jeremy Kahn took the big G to task for its clunky sales and management structure, it...
If there's anything the modern American has enough of, it's passwords and PINs. A San Francisco company called InnoVentry is rolling out check-cashing kiosks that do away with both. How do you acce...
Men have grappled with their beards for thousands of years, but never has a razor been hyped like the new Gillette Mach3. Having spent seven years and $1 billion to develop, make and market it, Gil...
Move over, jellied eels and Cornish pasties. British cuisine may soon include straw. SkyWay Technology, a small engineering company in the north of England, has devised a method to grind the stubbl...
While it's far from proven that electromagnetic fields are harmful, a little caution can't hurt. In addition to power lines and wiring, many devices around your home or office produce fields when t...
Bringing Mickey Mouse to France isn't proving easy. In a rush to meet an April 12 opening date for its $5 billion theme park 20 miles east of Paris, Disney is embroiled in disputes with its constru...
It seems we left a loose end dangling in last fortnight's musings. In them we put forward an arresting proposition: that politicians with mustaches may be more liberal than average. But having prop...
Who is the most liberal member of the U.S. Senate? The last time we asked this fateful question (June 19, 1989), the surprising answer was Claiborne Pell, the spaced-out aristocrat from Rhode Islan...
If you are male and suffer from stubble envy -- a disturbance characterized by a desire to have an always budding beard like TV star Don Johnson -- you may want to pick up an electric razor that we...
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