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24-hour news channels and countless Internet outlets allow every news topic its allotted 15 minutes of fame and then some. Certain subjects produce a bounty of newsworthy details, but in a world where blogs update us three times a day on already-exhausted subjects and readers have a fly’s attention span, overexposure and ubiquity are [...]

Though all the news and listicles of late has been about green transportation alternatives, high-speed trains and fuel-efficient cars, there remains something to be said for a big-budget collision between gas- or diesel-guzzling behemoths. No, we’re not talking about NASCAR, but about movie car crashes, whose alternations between realism, excess and stylizing often make for [...]

With an astute bit of trend-spotting, New York magazine’s Daily Intel blog chronicles the mustache’s recent crossover from fashionable facial hair faux-pas to mainstream viability and official acceptance (via a ground-testing period in hipster ugly-coolness).
Admittedly, Brad Pitt’s recent ’stache reveal (number three on Daily Intel’s slideshow) was predicted by Orlando Bloom’s (pictured at right), spotted [...]

Historical fact: during the Great Depression the only Christmas presents you’d get were sepia-toned clothing and cuts in the soup line. But now that we’re officially in another recession right before the non-denominational holiday season, let’s turn to the country’s ever-dwindling pool of journalists for on-the-cheap gift guides. Video game consoles and chocolate orange [...]