Information Overload: A User’s Guide
Sean MurphyToday is Information Overload Awareness Day Information Overload Awareness Day (www.informationoverloadday.com) is a…
July 28, 1979: The Long Way Home
If I ever need to check myself and consider what a privileged life I've led, I simply need to recall that moving across town in the summer of '79 was a…
Sexism Sells…But Who’s Buying?
Our attitudes toward sex tell us just about everything we need to know about ourselves. Go ahead and open a book, put on the TV, pop in a DVD or turn…
We’ve Come A Long Way, Kind Of…
From today's NYT: On July 21, 1925, the ''monkey trial'' ended in Dayton, Tenn., with John T. Scopes convicted of violating state law for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. (The…
One Small Step for Man’s Mind
Listen: there are people who actually believe that the moon landing never happened. Lots of people. Not that it didn’t happen, necessarily, but that it was an elaborate, carefully staged…
A Mile High Is No Place To Be Dry
Not everyone is man enough to join the mile high club. It's all a matter of taste. I have learned, with the wisdom that comes with hard experience and…
Here Comes The Flood
Sometimes your condo gets flooded. It's odd, but since it wasn't my fault (some clown on the fourth floor installed something, or had something installed, that malfunctioned, dripping its incompetent pain…
(Some Things Never) Change That We Can Believe In
First off, even if this photo is doctored (and there is no way that it is) it's still genius. Epic. Some intial takes on the matter, in real time, sent…
Robert McNamara: The Things He Didn’t Carry
By no means can all (or most) of the blame for the catastrophic clusterfuck that was Vietnam be placed at the shiny wingtips of Robert McNamara. But his legacy is not…