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Kevin Warsh has clashed with Democratic senators during a fiery confirmation hearing to decide whether he should be installed as Federal Reserve chairman. From suggestions that he would be President ...

A phony name made up by a user in order to masquerade as someone else on the Internet. Sock puppets can make controversial comments or vote for or against a cause without revealing their identity.

It’s not easy to get kids invested in keeping the house clean. Get them started early with an easy task like dusting by introducing them to these fun dust-eating sock puppets. Here, we’re making our ...

It's dusk in Mark Hayward and Charley Knapp’s cozy duplex in Los Feliz. Tonight, Mark, Charley, and the cast are preparing for the first read-through of the pilot episode of "Hogan’s Heroes." Before ...

SAN FRANCISCO — It wasn’t his first job choice, but at least the Pets.com sock puppet hasn’t joined the high-tech unemployment line. One of the most recognizable icons of the dot-com era has a new ...

Perhaps nothing embodies the fortunes of Silicon Valley so well as the Sock Puppet. Created in 1999 by the San Francisco office of ad agency TBWAChiatDay, this garrulous piece of stuffed hosiery rode ...

Under the clever name Lintallica, the sock puppets offer up such lyrics as "End of laundry day / Folding me away / Lost in the depths within this dresser / No other stripe in sight / Begin this lonely ...