Part one: Smelly Macs, Linux revolutionaries, spankers, Web-cam operators and George W. Bush -- your clicks made these articles hits.

As the market for infant products grows ever more absurd, author Pamela Paul takes on $800 strollers, Gymboree and the bamboozle that is Baby Einstein.

Over which small town will the first American sunrise of the 21st century shine?

Sharps and Flats

Plus: Is television empowering Indian women?

Like zombies in search of fresh brains, social networks will rise from the grave when you least expect them. Especially if Brazilian hackers are involved

Black comedians from Pryor to Bernie Mac have transformed the childhood trauma of corporal punishment into laughs

Wal-Mart may well be the Grim Reaper, but aren't shoppers the ones swinging the scythe?

On Saturday night I don latex and beat men with paddles. On Sunday morning I go to church. Are they much different?

Financing Cheney's pro-torture front is Melvin Sembler, who once enabled "enhanced interrogation" of American teens

Mary Elizabeth Williams reviews 'Satyricon USA' by Eurydice

The leaked photos told a powerful story -- but they were also an invasion of her child's privacy

A chat with Laura Reese, author of the sexual thriller "Panic Snap."

After a public kiss, Perry disses Miley -- and Miley fires back brilliantly

The 16-year-old killed the man she was sold to. Tennessee's governor has the chance to make this right