Remember encyclopedias? How you had to purchase an entire set every few years to really be up to date? How you could fill a whole wall with just the unabridged Oxford English Dictionary? Well, some kid from Brighton doesn't, so ...Read More
One of those If You Liked X, You'll Love Y links on KahluaJ's Painfully Cute post earlier in the week led to the video a few lines down the page with the cutsie wootsie soundtrack infectiously reminiscent of Hamster Dance ...Read More
Clearly before open-source... the whole internet would not go black. It would go linux. Read More
If culture has taught us anything, it's that people love to watch others fail. It's a genetic fact. Which is why I present a collection of classic awkwardness found throughout interwebs history. . 1. Awkward Family Photos . 2. Worst Album Covers Ever And ...Read More
Josh's post on Friday of what the filmmaker describes as an "epic parody trailer from SecretSauce.TV [which] spoofs the likes of Transformers, G.I. Joe and Michael Bay," got me thinking about the history of schlocky filmmaking. Affordable movie-making equipment (i.e., ...Read More
It's the meme of the minute this Friday afternoon... Star Trek has some serious competition this summer! Read More
In case you're living under a rock and/or reading this at some point in the future where this story has rightfully disappeared into obscurity, last Monday some knucklehead had a great idea for a photo stunt over what, 8.5 years ...Read More
Ok. So, not that we don't already know celebrities can be shameless self-promoters and total media whores... But I was still somewhat shocked to see the latest in the celebrities race to gain the most twitter followers. Or Twitterflies. My ...Read More
So I'm fly-on-the-walling (i.e., eavesdropping on) a conversation by what I assume to be a group of relatively young (i.e., under 30) publishing professionals (i.e., aspiring authors doing time as editors) at a local non-corporate coffee shop the other day. ...Read More
Here's me explaining to people how to get to my office: "So when you come out of Penn Station, look up. Our building is the one that has a big painting on it." "A painting? What of? Like a..." and then they ...Read More