The inventor of cubicles, Robert Propst, lamented his unwitting contribution to what he called “monolithic insanity” before he passed away in 2000. Fortune has an interesting article about the history of cubicles, where they came from and why and where they might go in the future (hint: it’s not away because, of all things, the […]
Scholastic recently signed a deal with Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts to write a children’s book about his dog. Mr. Kennedy famously drove his car off a bridge in 1969 in what is know as the Chappaquiddick incident. He landed in the water. A young woman, Mary Jo Kopechne, drowned. His dog is named […]
My mind just blew up after watching a real life version of “The Simpsons” opening sequence. It was filmed, using real human actors, in England to promote the 17th season and was officially sanctioned by Mr. Matt Groening. It is a dead-on rendition of the opening sequence and I almost fell out of my chair […]
A Sudanese man has been forced to take a goat as his “wife”, after he was caught having sex with the animal. I love this world! After the jump, read the text in case the BBC takes down the article… Happy Friday! A Sudanese man has been forced to take a goat as his “wife”, […]
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, going to Bingo was a good value and if there one thing that I’ve been programmed to do since birth is to recognize a good value. It seems that Bingo is now the 9th best public university in the country according to US News and World […]
Let me sound like Maxwell Smart when I say, would you believe that the 16 year old from Florida who went to Iraq on a “journalism” assignment for school never was enrolled in a journalism class because his school didn’t offer one? That his parents sent a note to school saying he’d be gone during […]
Today, the New York City Planning Commission unanimous approved the plan for the privately financed $800 million project and now its up to the City Council, which must vote on final approval within two months, to say whether or not this will be a reality. I know there has been some back and forth about […]
After the jump, read about how NBC has frozen the viral “Lazy Sunday” wildfire. Man are they missing the boat. via Jessie PS – to my loyal readers: sorry for the absense of posts lately. I actually have been quite busy as I resigned from my job to take a new one (my last day […]
In the Winter of 2002, I was recovering from a serious car accident and couldn’t even read due to massive headaches (it hurt too much to concentrate on the words). Thankfully, I had the Salt Lake City games to keep me company. I watched all day every day and for the most part loved every […]
Pandora is a neat site run the people who set up the Music Genome Project. For those that haven’t heard of this great idea, it captures the essence of music at the most fundamental level. Here is their spiel: Hundreds of musical attributes or “genes” have been assembled into a very large Music Genome. Taken […]