National
Yeah, we know PBS was hacked but there’s still something charming about hearing that Tupac Shakur is alive and well in a small resort in New Zealand (along with Biggie Smalls, of course.) We’d like to imagine an alternate universe where Tupac and Biggie were not brutally murdered but instead … Read More
By the time this is published, I will have had the all-new Fiat 500 for only the first day of seven. So there’s not much to report. Except that it’s red and fits easily onto our parking pad — and that I’ve been looking forward to getting my hands on … Read More
Research in Motion (RIM), the Canadian company best known for creating the BlackBerry smartphone, was recently placed on the endangered companies list by influential business writer Henry Blodget of Business Insider. Blodget’s controversial May 19 web headline pronounced that “RIM’s toast,” while his article’s otherwise identical print version at Canadian … Read More
The other day, whilst expunging my all beef patty & deep-fried potato conscience on the treadmill, I happened to catch on one of the gymnasium’s many monitors a scrolling headline about the future plans of McDonald’s for some 7,000 of the chain’s European locations: to replace cashiers with ABM-like machines. … Read More
Though less obvious than Deadheads braying ‘Iko, iko’ out the window as they float past each other in psychedelic Westfalias, there’s a significant subculture of Jeep weenies in Wranglers who always salute each other in traffic. They simply love driving these mechanized Sherpas. Not that you’d have seen many other … Read More
