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Need I say more? And, unlike many parodies, these are ha-ha funny, not simply funny strange.

Hilarious send-up of Internet advice columns: An "expert" advises great photographers on how to improve their iconic images.

If you're like me, it might seem in retrospect that you spent longer laboring over Thucydides than it took Athens and Sparta to fight the dang thing.

One misplaced comma can cost you $2.13 million. Granted, those are Canadian dollars, but that still makes my hourly rates pretty fargin' cheap.

The Tangent Audio AMP-100 and CD-100 cost $350 each.

Under the hood of the Tangent Audio AMP-100.

VMAX Services' Richard Kohlruss followed-up with <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/072806sleek/">some information on Tangent Audio</a>. Here's how the CD-100 looks on the inside.

So there I am, sitting eating my lunch, watching the news on TV, waiting like the slavering dog that I am for more Mel goes Mad, when none other than Alice Cooper a.k.a. Vince Furnier, he of the large pearly whites and the exquisitely died hair, comes on CNN and begins batting his bright eyes and cheerfully expounding on his new youth center in Phoenix.