I’ve been shirking my regular work-related subway reading in favor of a new anthology entitled When I Was a Loser: True Stories of (Barely) Surviving High School, consisting of personal essays by various writers about how awful high school was.
A well-done comics-themed parody of the Mac/PC ads. Contents: one joke. But I like the second-order geekness of this.
I’m not a Web retailer, and if I were I would probably find this exchange more painful than fascinating, but as it is I can just sit back and enjoy the weirdness of it. Forbes has a piece up about “Google Hell,” which is where Web retailers end up when they fall out of the [...]
It never fails to surprise me when I see once-extinct franchises getting re-animated — you think they’re dead, then somebody finds a scrap of intact DNA trapped in amber, and before you know it you’re back to the box office all over again. Arrogant fools — have we not learned to leave Mother Nature alone? [...]
