Yankees leak private info of 17,000 fans in epic email fail

In an epic fail, a Yankees employee accidently emailed the private information of not one, not two, but 17,000 season-ticket holders to hundreds of people.

The fatal error apparently occurred when the said employee attached a spreadsheet containing the sensitive information to an email by accident.

So what information was leaked?

Well, only the names, home addresses, fax numbers, e-mail accounts and…

How to Write Your Own Lyrics

Lyrics are the most deceptively simple components to the art of songwriting. No matter how simple a lyric may look, most lyricists hone their poetic words over a period of weeks or months before hitting perfection. Only a fortunate few can write lyrics prolifically without much need of editing. For a beginner, though, it’s best to…

Bali Beyond Backpacking

For years, Bali was a backpacker’s dream, enticing free spirits with quiet villas and inexpensive yoga classes. Now, the Indonesian island is all grown up and offers a bit more sparkle to go along with its spiritual roots, so you can leave your backpack at home. From Ubud to Seminyak, we’ve got the inside scoop on the best yoga,…

Crystallized Sugar LED Lamp

Surprised, ordinary sugar can be used as a sustainable resource to make lamps? But of course you may need other materials when to make a Crystallized Sugar LED Lamp as that of Won Joon Lee’s.

After experimenting with sugar by burning, melting, freezing, Won Joon Lee finally created light-diffracting sugar crystals when he placed LEDs into concentrated sugar water….

Hot Dogs

Sports and hot dogs go together like cookies and milk, a truly American institution with a rich and interesting history. Whether you call them hot dogs, red hots, wieners, franks or frankfurters, learn the good, the bad and the ugly, and try some hot dog recipe ideas. Hot Dog History Although the history of sausage goes back a long way,…

How to Raise a Rose Garden

Nearly everyone recognizes a rose, traditionally a symbol of love and a flower of classic beauty in a bouquet or garden. Many gardeners find growing roses challenging or mysterious, but proper techniques can keep a bed of roses growing in nearly any garden. Plant your roses in optimal conditions, care for them meticulously, and a garden of roses…

Vitamin D: The Sunshine Vitamin

Vitamin D, an essential vitamin, is both a hormone-like compound and a fat-soluble vitamin, says Roberta Anding, MS, RD, sports dietitian at Memorial Hermann Sports Medicine Institute in Houston and a spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association. “Almost all cells and tissues of the body require vitamin D.”

Vitamin D is naturally present in very few foods. However, vitamin…

Loose Leaf Door Stopper

Wow, so these “colorful” leaves have left their home trees and flown into your doors to stop them? Honestly they are really functional and durable although they’re simply made of rubber.

Android Market now has the most free apps

While the iTunes App Store still dwarfs the Android Market, the latter now has more free apps.

According to research group Distimo, as of the end of March, for the first time, the Android Market has more free apps than iTunes. That is because the majority of Android apps don’t cost any money, whereas the reverse is true for…

Navi Rawat Biography (1977-)

The daughter of a German mother and Indian father, actress Navi Rawat grew up in California before moving to New York to attend New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Her first big break came in 2003, when she won the recurring role of Theresa Diaz on the hit series The O.C. Later that same year, she…

Sony admits some PSN data was unencrypted

The ongoing saga of Sony’s massive data hack continues, and not in a good way for Sony.

The company now admits some personal data did not have any encryption, meaning all it took was back-door access to user files – which is what happened in this case – to get unfettered user information.

However, it asserts, credit card data was fully…