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Could you learn something entirely from YouTube? Let’s try it out with Christmas

I have a Roku and an Apple TV — fancy — and when my parents were here for Thanksgiving, my dad didn’t know how to carve a turkey (he had seen it done, and done it, but this isn’t necessarily muscle… Continue Reading

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With the World Cup draw, an age-old question: does someone like Lionel Messi have to win a championship for his legacy?

I just embedded that video up top because it’s fun, and because it got about 33 million hits in about four days. It’s not really relevant at all to this post; Kobe Bryant has won a championship (five of ’em,… Continue Reading

In appreciation of Jamie Foxx

Let me start with this: when I sat down to write this, news broke in the U.S. that Nelson Mandela passed away. I’m on an e-mail thread with some of my best guy friends, and we had a quick exchange… Continue Reading

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If you want your sitcom to get cancelled, put Liza Lapira on it (she’s good on the drama side, though)

I watched Don’t Trust The B in Apartment 23, which I believe should actually be written Don’t Trust The B—- In Apartment 23, when it was on. I didn’t watch it religiously or anything; I caught maybe 2-3 episodes every month and… Continue Reading

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Martin Bashir, Sarah Palin, and cable news

There’s the clip above, and now, Martin Bashir has resigned from MSNBC. He had been there since the end of summer 2010. The big aspect of this story is two-fold: (a) Alec Baldwin also just got popped by MSNBC (he’s off the… Continue Reading

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Are tablets going to save the world? (Yes. No. Maybe So.)

Best I can tell, the iPad was introduced on January 27, 2010. On March 22, 2010, Wired ran an article with the headline “How The Tablet Will Change The World.” In other words, this isn’t a very new idea; people have seen the… Continue Reading

Cyber Monday is sort of a joke

Yea, the money is there — Cyber Monday has been around less than a decade, and sales have tripled in that time. But the term, coined by Shop.org based on research trends in 2004, is a bit outdated. When it… Continue Reading

Black Friday: Like all great things in America, we have Philadelphia and the service academies to thank

Here’s a typical look at Black Friday, via the Twitter Machine: Long lines @BestBuy. Let the madness begin #BlackFriday pic.twitter.com/dJ6samtFoT — Annalyn Kurtz (@AnnalynKurtz) November 28, 2013 In reality, Black Friday isn’t even a thing anymore — the stuff can start a… Continue Reading