by Louis Bohan Scenes from Old Man Winter unleashing on these poor humans of NYC: a lady slips and falls nearly dropping her pizza, a dude practices his Good Samaritan skills on a stranded taxi. The pizza saved, yet the taxi remains. Score: Old Man WInter 1, Humans 1. The night time shots were taken [...]

One of the great things about any sports dueling showdown is all the media hype that goes into characterizing the other side. As Newy Scruggs (quite the name), explains here, people in San Francisco like to smoke weed! If the series comes back to SF, and you can’t see yourself dropping $500+ for standing room [...]

Here’s a three piece video meme that makes for an interesting cross-section of Americana as well as viral internet culture. Wikipedia defines an Internet meme (pronounced /ˈmiːm/, rhyming with “cream”[1]) as used to describe a concept that spreads swiftly via the Internet.[2] The term is a reference to the concept of memes, although this concept [...]

Do you remember meticulously making those mix-tapes from your personal collection, for good measure dubbing in some tunes from your local college radio station onto a Maxelle or TDK cassette tape? Did you ever try overlapping and recording two or even three songs at once – essentially creating a new song – if only for [...]

A programmer guy lands in Newark and gets detained for three hours by Customs and Army agents. His mobile phones are confiscated and his laptop returned only once the agents realize the data is wiped clean. He repeatedly says something to the effect of: “I’m not talking without my lawyer.” The same guy then flies [...]

Seems the former president of Iran, and reformist candidate running against current president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has unexpectedly withdrawn from the election only 5 weeks after declaring his candidacy. Khatami is instead endorsing the candidacy of another reformist, Mir Hossein Mousavi. Some experts suggest Khatami’s candidacy was only meant to force the hand of other reformists [...]

7 things getting cheaper A not so critical look at a few common consumer goods which have become “cheaper” over time.