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Scenes from a mine shaft: What did the Chilean miners do for all that time?

By Rocco Tenaglia

The Chilean miners were trapped underground for 69 days. After three hours of "I Spy," they had exhausted their options for passing time. So what the heck did they do down there all that time?

VIDEO: The Oakland Post presents … Room 856

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The world’s greatest secrets hide in plain sight … Are you watching carefully?

Top Ten: Suggestions for improving Detroit

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Detroit has problems. We have solutions. At least half of them don't involve fire or murder.

Graphic by CARLA BUTWIN/The Oakland Post Graphic by CARLA BUTWIN/The Oakland Post

Champions need chemicals to excel; make steroids mandatory

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Brent Musburger says we should legalize steroids in professional sports. How have we not done this already? Inspired by this idea, we take the Oakland Post time machine to the year 2030 to see what sports of the future are like.

Media Convergence 2: The legend continues

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One year ago, Mouthing Off editor Dan Simons set up Kay Nguyen and Steve Wiseman on a date. Awkwardness reigned. Hilarity ensued. And that date became the basis of a Mouthing Off itself. But one year later, they're still together. I'll find out how things have been going with some invasive questioning.

Help fight cancer, grow a mustache

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This month is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. But why hate on only one type of cancer? I want to unite people to hate on every type of cancer. And I'll do it the best way I know how: Growing a mustache.

Top Ten: Most anticipated Halloween costumes of 2010

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Pirates and Spider-men are so like eight years ago. Find out what the hottest Halloween costumes are going to be this year. In the interest of fairness, Lady Gaga related costumes have been limited to one entry.

Sandwatch

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A few months ago I wrote an article about “suicide sandwiches,” a new form of food technology that would allow Americans to kill themselves in the most delicious way possible. It became clear to me in the months that followed that this was far too broad a topic to be dissected in a single page article.

Don’t eat that, it will kill you

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Eating food is probably my favorite pastime, next to taking naps. So maybe you can understand why I panic every time I open a newspaper to read about the latest food group to be tainted with salmonella or E. coli. I'm thinking now that it was a mistake to friend the FDA on Facebook.

In the Oakland Post writing room: Saving the fall TV season

By Rory McCarty and Dan Fenner

Oakland Post editors Dan Fenner and Rory McCarty go back to the drawing board in an attempt to forcibly inject originality into this year's Fall TV lineup.

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