I hate it when a local news report picks up some study tidbit, blows it out of proportion and makes a dramatic sounding story out of innocuous facts. Usually these stories skip the important background information such as “almost everyone in the field already knew that, but…” Here’s the New York Times doing the...
At First I Was All, But Then I Was Like… (Social Networks for Two)
Too Many Little Social Networks Popping Up Another thing that seems to fall into the “we don’t need it, and we should kill it with fire” category: social networks for couples. . It’s just funny enough to forward to someone, and possibly to download...
Hanging On To A Story: or Bad Horse as a Nickname for Europeans?
I grew up in a small town named “Ridgecrest.” It got that name because, in 1943, people finally got tired of calling it Crumville. It may have been an improvement, but Ridgecrest never seemed to have much soul, or any real connection to the...
Supreme Court Did NOT Say That Kids Have Right To Violent Videogames
That would be stupid. Yet some newscasters seemed to say it, and this columnist appears to believe it, though since she’s really just using that as a hook to...
Chicken Soup May Contain Real Chicken — Twitter Celebrities May Contain Real Tweets
If you go poking around for advice on how to succeed on Twitter, you’ll find a lot of people saying “be authentic.” Or something similar. Sort of like telling...
Why Do We Let Huge Life-Sucking Non-Human Lifeforms Like @Iconix Steal Our Fun?
If this were yesterday, you could have gone to Peanutweeter.com and enjoyed the pairing of one frame from the classic Charles Schultz Peanuts strip with a somewhat random Tweet. These...