Americans lose their shit over cheap beer prices. If you ever meet someone from western New York state, they will — not a question of if, a question of when — tell you about Genny Cream Ale and how it’s something like… Continue Reading
The BCS said goodbye last night with a doozy of a game — 24 points were scored in the final 5:15 — and actually, with a doozy of a BCS season overall (MSU-Stanford was great, UCF over Baylor was interesting… Continue Reading
Henry Wang and Chris Curro of Cooper Union went and did the damn thing: they created a better, more effective cardboard box. This isn’t something that people often think of, but we use cardboard boxes for (a) basically every Amazon purchase… Continue Reading
I’ve been thinking about quitting Facebook a lot recently. In the last 2-3 weeks, it’s become almost more of a when, not if scenario. I still have some hesitations, which I’ll attempt to outline below, but I figured this was something worth discussing… Continue Reading
Compartment syndrome happens when athletes build up their leg muscles — essentially, because the amount of space within the leg is finite, eventually the muscles push up on blood vessels, which restricts blood flow. Pain follows. Typically, for someone like… Continue Reading
CES is this week (January 7-10) in Las Vegas. It appears that Olivia Munn, Dean Norris (Hank Schrader!), Kristen Bell (Veronica Mars!) and others will be on hand, and the full conference session is here. (The titles are predictably conference-esque,… Continue Reading
Two quick points before I get going with this: 1. I read an interesting article on Fast Company the other day about why things go viral; I’ve talked about this too, in the past. In short form — I didn’t want to write… Continue Reading
That video above is a 122-foot tall snow woman in Bethel, Maine. It’s called “Olympia Snow” in honor of — you guessed it. It’s the tallest snowman/woman ever constructed — the previous record was also in Bethel, Maine — and it’s… Continue Reading