Most Popular Shushers: Wrong about movies. Wrong about the world. Thereâs been a delightful debate the last few days about how to accommodate the increasing number of people who want the experience of watching movies in public theaters to fit in with the way they live the rest of
music Jamaica Avenue! Everyone claims to be at the Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell: And yet, this venue has no mayor! THE BLOGOSPHERE IS FACT-CHECKING YOUR ASS, Das Racist! As you might expect, Foursquare shows some delightful results if you check the
Books And Then There's Us Starting last week, New York Magazine asked me to participate in a roundtable conversation with NYMagâs book critic Sam Anderson, Improv Everywhereâs Charlie Todd, the New York Timesâ Virginia Heffernan and David Rees, creator of Get Your War
random ha-ha Say My Name Say My Name For about ten years, Slate has had an intermittent series of articles that explain how to pronounce names of people who are in the news. As someone whose (first) name is frequently mispronounced, I can appreciate the effort. (For the
random ha-ha I Find It Bonkers, By The Way If you donât follow me on Twitter, youâve been missing out. But fear not! I take care of my loyal blog readers as well, by offering you the highlights of the interesting links Iâve been sharing there:
nyc The Web is Full of Riches I have some things to share with you. Alice Marwickâs extraordinary keynote speech on internet celebrity from last yearâs ROFLCon. It was the highlight of the event, imbued with both humor and a conscience. Mike Pusateri: âI am
random ha-ha On Spark Those of you who liked my post the other day about not missing anything while I was offline might also enjoy a conversation I had with CBC Radioâs show Spark, part of which will be on the air today.
random ha-ha EXCLUSIVE UNBOXING FOOTAGE I have to admit, I was a little bit gobsmacked when I saw that our little nerd world is becoming so mainstream that Jimmy Fallon had a gadget blogger featured on his show the other night â and it wasnât
random ha-ha Feeling Blue While listicles (articles that are simply lists, as cataloged on great sites like Listicles) are often the laziest form of journalism, they can also be among the most delightful. Something about the âIâm just phoning this inâ nature of
random ha-ha Whoa Unto Thee Whoa Is (Not) Me is a site thatâs a little over a year old, dedicated to defending the career and reputation of Keanu Reeves. It is distinguished from other Keanu fansites by a number of traits, including that it
random ha-ha Embracing Constraints, Revisited [P]erhaps the two best examples of how [religion-based food] bans have resulted in delicious and fascinating food are Jain cooking, with its ban on anything that remotely involves taking life, like root vegetables (little critters might get killed while
random ha-ha Serious LOLs: Come to ROFLCon From lolcats to goatse to the Zidane headbutt, Iâve been at least tenuously linked to some of the webâs most notable and notorious memes. Naturally, when I heard about ROFLCon, a conference being organized at Harvard to celebrate
nyc The First Flush I like to drink tea, either from my neighborhood tea shop or from what I brew at home, a nice cup of Darjeeling. âDarjeeling Teaâ means more than you might think. According to the Tea Board Of India â âDarjeeling Teaâ
random ha-ha What a Relief! Tom Patterson, of the U.S. National Park Service, wrote a great paper five years ago on improved realism in NPS maps. Thereâs some very insightful analysis that was useful even to a layman like me. He covers a
random ha-ha The Family of Languages From the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language has a delightful family tree of Indo-European languages, though I was kinda miffed at the omission of my parentsâ native tongue.
random ha-ha Et Tu, Spock? Maybe Iâm just a pushover, but I felt like there was something very charming and sweet about this video of a school project that I found on YouTube. Itâs a restaging of Shakespeareâs Julius Caesar that takes
random ha-ha Office Tools of Expression One of my favorite posts that Iâve ever written was Excel Pile, about peopleâs propensity for using Office tools like Microsoft Excel to track mundane parts of their lives, or even as tools of artistic expression. From that
random ha-ha The LOL Street Journal What makes lolcats appealing is that itâs simultaneously obscure and accessible. Itâs an inside joke told in an online lingua franca, but with a bit of effort anyone can become an insider. âAn in-joke used to be constrained
random ha-ha All Over the Web Iâve found some nice responses to conversations Iâve had recently that are probably worth checking out. First, and most importantly, Soundwave: The Touch, the story behind Soundwaveâs omission from the recent Transformers movie. Thanks to Nima Yousefi
random ha-ha Proof that cassingles really were evil My fellow nerds, the moment weâve waited more than two decades for has apparently arrived. Soundwave has arrived. He really transforms. And he really plays music.
music U Don't Have To Be Rich In the New Yorker, Bruce Wagner tries to live my life: The performance began at two in the morning and took place in a bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel. It was amazing. I was so close to Prince that
random ha-ha Someday we'll even obey Article 5 I donât know if itâs just that I went to lousy public schools, or that the xenophobic maniacs who resent the common ideals of humanity were successful in their efforts to shield kids from good ideas, but somehow
random ha-ha Later, They Fell Out Over "The Deck" Over at The Cold Inclusive, the truth behind Jennifer Love Coudal Hewittâs seminal role in Coudal Partners. TCI has been incredibly insightful in revealing JLHâs role in the birth of Web 2.0, but I found this latest
random ha-ha Friends of Faux Behold, Itâs (K)not Wood. I hestiate to make such a bold prediction, but it just may be the best blog dedicated to fake wood and woodgrain that youâll see today. I daresay itâs the one youâ
random ha-ha They Got Married?! If youâve been on the Internet at all in the past, oh, ten years, youâll have seen the ad for Classmates.com that features an improbable matrimonial matchup of a bookish young woman and a dreamy young man.