For most 17-year-olds the choices are limited to another four years of academia or chasing stray carts around the grocery store parking lot. But wunderkind Daniel Brusilovsky has an option C. Brusilovsky spends his free hours writing for Tech Crunch, a Web site that profiles start-up companies, products and Web sites and boasts over 3 million readers. He is the founder and CEO of his own ...

For those college football players eligible for the NFL draft, the preparation has already begun for the NFL combine in Indianapolis in February. Every NCAA athlete, from every football program, thinks he has the talent to step onto an NFL field and compete at a professional level. But according to the NFL Players Association, of the 100,000 high school seniors who play football every year, ...

While Disney World was once a wonderland of innovation, the amusement juggernaut could be faulted in recent decades for failing to embrace modern technology, especially when it comes to roller coasters. Take Space Mountain, for example, which recently reopened after being shut down for seven months for updates. You'd imagine in seven months the mouseheads would find a way to actually blast ...

Chris Illuminati lives in New Jersey and writes about everything you couldn't care less about. That is his real last name. Guys have rules. Keep an empty urinal between you and another guy, the man of the house always works the grill, etc. Those rules are the reason books like "The Maxims of Manhood: 100 Rules Every Man Must Live By" are published and find success. We men need such ...

Lighting a woman's cigarette is a money move. It's an ice breaker and a conversation starter. But imagine the way her eyes would light up when you lit her Virginia Slims using your lighter/cuff links. Especially if you slip and light her eyebrows on fire. Apparently these are vintage pieces that were "once dispensed in gumball machines approximately 50 years ago." The same machines that spit ...

Facebook has jumped the shark. There, we said it. It was amusing for about a month. Somewhere around this point, it all started to go downhill. As the Washington Post reports, more and more of the kids these days are deciding to have nothing to do with it -- and an increasing number of people and celebrities who've had their many faults (or, ahem -- assets) laid bare on social networks for the ...

Maurice Sendak recently came to our attention when he awesomely told Newsweek that parents who think the "Where the Wild Things Are" film may be too scary can "go to hell," following up by saying, "If they [kids] can't handle it, go home. Or wet your pants. Do whatever you like. But it's not a question that can be answered." Really, Mo? Telling parents, the people who buy your books, to go ...

In Man on Man, Asylum looks at notable men: their deeds, their works and yes, their character. Jon Krakauer. You know the name but maybe not off the top of your head. Krakauer is the best-selling author of several fascinating yet heartbreaking books such as "Into the Wild," "Into Thin Air," and most recently, "Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman." While the stories are somewhat ...