“Hey, Joey, Wanna Do a Review?”

18 years ago

Just got this email: I wanted to know if by any chance you would be interested in doing an unbiased…

19 Years Ago Today (or: The World’s Ballsiest Man)

18 years ago

19 years ago today, "Tank Man" (a.k.a. "The Unknown Rebel", or as I prefer to call him, "Iron Balls McGinty")…

Toronto’s Challenges, if it Tries to Become More Seattle- or Silicon Valley-esque

18 years ago

[This article was also posted on Global Nerdy.] Scenes from the Valley's El Camino Real (left) and Seattle's Pioneer Square…

Interview Video of the Day: Bruce Lee Interviewed by Pierre Berton

18 years ago

Here's a real gem: one of my heroes, Bruce Lee, being interviewed by Canadian television personality, journalist and author Pierre…

Music Video of the Day: “New Math”

18 years ago

Here's Bo Burnham singing his nerd-folk/filk song, New Math: In case you were wondering what the lyrics were, here they…

McCain: “Global Warming for Bombs…Do We Have a Deal?”

18 years ago

The blog Craptocracy sums up John McCain's unexpected stance on climate change very nicely: When McCain talks about 'climate change'…

Personally, I Would Have Gone with Post-It Notes Instead [Updated]

18 years ago

Photo credit: Maxppp/Barcroft Media The bad-at-real-news, decent-at-amusing-trivial-stories UK paper The Telegraph reports that "In a bizarre publicity stunt, Dr Wei…

As Long as I’m Writing About “End Times” Humour…

18 years ago

...I might as well dig up the classic Eschatron 9000 photo (originally posted in this blog entry): If there truly…

Apocalypse How

18 years ago

A couple of days ago, I got email from Rob Kutner, who is a writer for my 11 p.m. weekday…

Gary Coleman, Shilling for the Loan Sharks (or: Cashcall.com’s 99.25% APR Loans)

18 years ago

While clicking through the "Related Videos" on the YouTube page for Checkmate, the video about check-cashing services featured in the…