UPDATE: I stand totally corrected on this post. See Lisa’s comment below. The whole hoax is actually a great story.
My humble apologies for missing the joke. My only defense is that it wasn’t quite funny enough or well written enough to be recognized as satire. (cf. pretty much everything in The Onion)
But it’s still [...]

A little mishap during the basketball playoffs in Chicago:
“The Bulls have a blimp — called the ‘Bull-imp’ — that soars majestically over the crowd during games, sometimes dropping little t-shirt patties onto the frenzied attendees. During Game 1, the blimp lost power and plummetted into the waiting arms of the fans, who grabbed onto and [...]

Toronto Pending is a fascinating look at some of the Robert Moses-like plans for Toronto that, fortunately, never came to pass.
If you don’t know Robert Moses, he was the well-intentioned butcher behind the inhuman Cross-Bronx Expressway in New York City and the subject of Robert Caro’s The Power Broker.
It’s a good thing we never went [...]

I’ve bitten my tongue for a week, but I’m too full of piss and vinegar to shut up any more.
Regarding the VT Massacre, there were some people who quickly stressed that this was a bad time to “politicize” the catastrophe by raising the issue of gun control. Last year, in the context of a similar [...]

On the eve of Toronto’s first NBA playoff appearance in 5 years, here’s a great article on ESPN.com about why Toronto hates Vince Carter.
Executive summary? He’s a punk, and everyone in Toronto knows it.

Carter’s cause hasn’t been helped by (a) his being accused in the Tacoma News Tribune of tipping off the Seattle SuperSonics [...]

Seek sent me this piece of brilliance. It’s best read aloud in your best Stephen Colbert voice. My only beef is the dig on Skee-Lo at the end. Don’t be hating on my one-hit homey.
This is why “This Is Why I’m Hot” is hot: Because it’s hot. There are of course other reasons [...]

As a consumer, you have a lot of options out there when it comes to metal detectors. But as a discerning consumer, you really have only one.
See why

This is thoroughly geeky, but here’s an article by a guy who moved entirely into online apps for a month. It’s interesting to me because one of the main reasons I don’t switch over to all-online apps is that I kinda forget about them. This guy forced himself to stay online.
READ ON and see [...]

Kurt Vonnegut was one of a kind. He was both a brilliant philosopher and a devastating comedian. He was a true artist, and yet he recognized that the best art wasn’t self-referential wankery, but rather, was actually meant to make the world a better place. Or at least shake it up a bit. To that [...]

I’m honestly speechless.
Reports are emerging from members of the movie industry that the Department of Homeland Security has designated the 1982 film TRON as “sensitive”, and ordered Walt Disney Studios to turn over all copies of the film in its posession. Retailers are also receiving notices to remove all copies of the film from stock [...]