I’m not sure what the point of all this is, but it’s awesome. I never realized just how many awful VHS covers existed until just now. No doubt future generations will look back upon this memory of late 1970s through early 2000s box art and barf. In between laughing about the concept of big, huge [...]

The Beginner’s Guide to Tricking Out Your WordPress Blog Very helpful guide. Included are initial configurations, must-have plugins (I learned a lot from the foregoing two), how to customize the theme, and ‘advanced trickery’ (I have yet to plumb the depths thereof). The author frequently writes for Lifehacker, and if you want some real amazement, [...]

Or perhaps this was a measured attempt to get hipsters to quit bashing the franchise. Ha, good luck to them, though it’s unlikely to happen. This has already been demonstrated by the froth despite the many, many photographs of the stoned age couple out and about, eyelids never above half-mast, and hipster looks they generally [...]

“The memory of evil will serve as a shield against evil; …The memory of death will serve as a shield against death” – Elie Wiesel Nobel Lecture, 1986 This touching reminder appears at the end of a video presentation on the October 29, 1944 Jewish broadcast in Aachen, Germany. After a month of bitter fighting, [...]

Maureen Dowd excellently encapsulates the problem at the root of some – though certainly not all – of the reactionary right-wing. Up ’til now, I’d have loved to pretend that racism really doesn’t exist except in hidden, smirking, low-class and dank corners of our society. It’s certainly my experience that people are far more virulently [...]

Who among us has not had their childhood touched by “Puff, the Magic Dragon”?  I know I used to sing it often in childhood.  It is with great wistfulness and not a little bit of sadness that I consider that Mary Travers has left us after a four-year battle with leukemia that saw her bravely [...]

“A poem, by Henry Gibson.”  That’s how audiences first got to know the actor on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, who left us today at 73.  He leaves behind an impressive body of work.  While he was never a leading man other than in such turns as Nashville (for which his fans insist, quite rightly, that [...]

This map gives a good start. Perhaps it doesn’t sum up all the changes of the Bush years, and perhaps it’s just meant to surprise. But our world changed mightily in less than a decade, and this collection of statistics is an excellent attempt at a summation. Source

JBS thinks that men shouldn’t have to look at other men for their underwear ads. To that end, they’ve created a provocative series of ads that have brought them renown – and gratitude, we’re certain – the world over. Personally, when I look at these, I love roiling in the decadence. Girls can be one [...]

The infamous girl’s name has received a huge boon for chillens comin’ on up the age ladder. The scary part is the time at which new parents were naming their daughters Paris – it indicates it was when the most infamous of Parises was becoming famous.. for a sex tape. Really, parents, why would you [...]

At the time that the Coco avant Chanel (Coco Before Chanel) movie starring Audrey Tautou bears down on us in theaters, and Karl Lagerfeld channels her for Harper’s Bazaar, we should take a look at the iconic woman behind the name. Was she enigmatic? Yes; her reputation doesn’t lead astray in that regard. Perhaps the [...]

Human resources is a growing business.  The messy work of dealing with the ever more complicated and intricate legal aspects relating to the workforce  - the ‘human capital’ – is best left to professionals who can navigate this system and its myriad rules.  Long gone is the time, if it ever existed, in which a [...]

Commisserate with expectations, Jon Stewart made fun of both Republicans and Democrats for their behavior during the final confirmation of Justice Sotomayor.  The Republicans, in moves which were widely expected, clung to the same tired  canards about racism and empathy-based judgment.  (Of course, Justice Sotomayor has herself yet to prove how she will judge in [...]

You may notice we’re using a new, nifty rotator on the index.  That is all due to the expertise of one man.  His site is located here, and I encourage you to visit it and check out his offerings. There is, quite frankly, a ton of Web 2.0 information available there, and we’ll definitely be [...]

This man is an excellent writer. In covering First Lady Michelle Obama for Vogue, where he is Editor-at-Large, he was remarkable. Only at the end did he reveal any of himself in this. As we rolled along, I thought of my own journey. How many among the crowds gathered to watch us pass were like [...]

James Cameron’s forthcoming magnum opus Avatar has been a highly guarded secret ever since we first heard of it a whopping 12 1/2 years ago now. It’s been speculated over and endlessly rumored, and no amount of digging could uncover its secrets. This kind of crush, naturally, leads to extremes in expectations. Especially when we [...]

Since she first appeared on the scene in 1994, presented as a fragile, lovely rosebud whose petals were still tender and dew-kissed, Liv Tyler has maintained a presence that belies her origins as well as her career in the interim.

“It’s the American way that we judge people as individuals, not as groups. And by that standard we can say unequivocally that this particular wise Latina, with the richness of her experiences, would far more often than not reach a better conclusion than the individual white males she faced in that Senate hearing room. Even [...]

The world has gone ga-ga over Wall-E, Pixar’s ninth animated feature. We respond.