The original story is one I saved last fall and fell in love with: An adventure race team encounters a dog, feeds him a meatball, and he tags along for the remaining legs of a grueling race. Continue reading
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Required listening: Kate Pierson’s ‘Mister Sister’
Kate Pierson, longtime member of the B-52s, is leading up to the release of solo album “Guitars and Microphones,” and song “Mister Sister” was released ahead of the February album launch. Continue reading
Barenaked Ladies are back, with a social-media inspired video
I haven’t heard the name Barenaked Ladies in awhile, but while on YouTube I tripped across a brand-new video that’s social media summed up in less than three minutes, with a song that’s very… Barenaked Ladies-y? Continue reading
The growing irrelevance of the news homepage
In the Internet’s early days, the homepage was king: Companies like Yahoo! fought to have the most relevant landing page for users. The hope was they’d make it their start page when opening their browser, and spend a long time on their sites, consuming content and features. Continue reading
Turn off auto-play on Facebook’s videos
As Facebook continues its relentless march towards world domination, it continues to make decisions that will help it earn revenue, something that is at times at odds with what users would choose as their ideal experience. One such decision is auto-play videos and their growing prominence in the newsfeed. Fortunately, like with other settings that has led Facebook to catch some flack, there is a way to turn it off. Continue reading
Your friends are getting married, and you’re getting older
Are you missing your chance to get married? A completely frivolous piece of tech on Time magazine’s website uses your Facebook graph to calculate the ages of your friends, married and not, to tell you if you’re getting past your prime. Fortunately I have eight months, according to the applet, so I’ll get right on it. Continue reading
Facebook, 10 years later
Yesterday, Facebook celebrated the 10th anniversary of its launch. Initially rolling out to colleges before opening itself to the wider public, the social network has become an ever-present, with more than 1 billion active accounts, a remarkable feat given the number of issues it had over the years with privacy concerns, monetization, going public and even the near-revolt they first face when letting high school students on (for college students, that was nearly a cardinal sin). Continue reading
Classic You Don’t Know Jack goodness, thanks to Steam
I had become aware of it when it first happened, but over the break I was finally able to act: most of You Don’t Know Jack’s classic editions had been re-released! In high school and college I spent countless hours playing the game “where high culture and pop culture collide,” so I was excited to get my hands on the classic editions again. Continue reading
The real facts behind that McDonald’s coffee lawsuit
The McDonald’s spilled coffee story and lawsuit that came out in the 90s endures somehow, a prime example of a story going viral long before Twitter and Facebook existed. Yet while some are lamenting the problems that the immediacy of social media brings and the major pitfalls we’re failing to avoid, it’s not an exclusively online problem, either. Continue reading
Saving a bit more, one week at a time
With the year drawing to a close, thoughts turn to the new year, and inevitably, new year’s resolutions. I’m not particularly fond of them; I think it’s an arbitrary date that doesn’t spur on real change, but temporary motivation (I’m for sure in that camp). That said, I’m never going to argue against things that encourage good habits, as long as people stay focused, so if it works for others, fantastic. One such resolution, which seems to be getting passed around each year around this time, is the 52-week money challenge. Continue reading