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Sesame Street was broadcast for the first time 40 years ago today, and has since become as intimately bound to American life as hamburgers and guns. As such, the show has had a perfect vantage to observe and lampoon most of the great cultural milestones of the last 4 decades (most recently, Mad Men) and [...]

Today is Rubber Eraser Day, because on April 15, 1770, Joseph Priestly first discovered that scratching paper with rubber would remove any pencil marks from said paper. Little did Priestly know that his invention would not only enable the correcting and improving of all manner of written and drawn art, but would in fact become [...]

Funny how with the iPhone takeover now iPods seem a little arcane, you know? And with the new Kindle 2, who needs a Kindle 1, not to mention its predecessors, printed books? Yes, technological cycles of innovation and redundency are accelerating to breakneck speeds, which also makes nostalgia for the technologies of yesteryear widely accessible [...]

A few years back we were at a birthday party for a friend’s younger brother, and one of his friends gave him a turtle made of milk jugs. The boy started to cry, then the girl who gave him the turtle started to cry, and accusatory looks were exchanged between every parent faction and things [...]

When we were young all we had was an impossibly wimpy little boombox and we couldn’t understand the device’s appeal (granted, we didn”t live in a street-centric subculture where public display was the referred mode of music-listening.
Then we saw Kazaam and our dislike of boomboxes seemed all the more justified. Now we get it, and [...]

So, 600,000 jobs lost last month, huh? Well then there’s no better time for our weekly financialisticle Big Money Mondays, wherein we chronicle moments of incongruous extravagance in a world otherwise headed for the bread line. Following our long tradition of charting trends in the luxury goods markets, this week’s listicle, courtesy of mental_floss, features [...]

In what is perhaps the most brilliant anti-gentrification performance art-as-protest achievement ever, a serial arsonist has been lighting luxury condo construction site porta-potties ablaze (pictured at right) all over the rapidly developing Russian Hill neighborhood of San Francisco.
As if news of this hilarious and brilliant string of anti-gentrification vandalism wasn’t enough, one foreman has reacted [...]

Last year one of our favorite mall visit time-wasters, The Sharper Image, filed for bankruptcy and closed all its stores. We were crushed by the loss of all those useless, cheap-feeling gadgets we loved to play with but never bought (hence the bankruptcy).  Fortunately, we read yesterday in The New York Times of the company’s [...]

This week the news (at least the really important news) has been all about animals getting jobs once performed by humans. First we learned about service dogs that fetch their owners water and do their laundry, then we read that the city of Mesa, Arizona had laid off its lawnmower operators and hired goats to [...]

A few days back we informed you, dear readers, of some of the best briefcases to sport in these times of increased workplace mobility. Unfortunately, after sporting our much-adored bacon briefcase for a few days we noticed that people were rather taken aback by the strict business look of our bag.
Then it hit us, like [...]