I read all the end-of-year lists in different entertainment sub-categories, but because I don’t follow music that closely throughout the year (as opposed to, say, TV or movies), I always find new, semi-interesting stuff in the music rundowns. This year… Continue Reading
I was looking around for some info to write a post about YouTube trends in 2013 — I honestly think YouTube is one of the coolest things that has ever graced the collective thing we call society — and came… Continue Reading
You see headlines like “How many months would it take an average worker to make what a CEO makes in 1 hour?” all the time. It’s depressing. (If you care, the answer for McDonald’s is 6 months and 4 weeks,… Continue Reading
More fun with 2013 trends: this time, Instagram released its top geo-tagged locations of 2013. In the top 10 are some places you’d expect — Times Square, both Disneyland and Disney World, and the Bellagio Fountains in Las Vegas. But none of… Continue Reading
We’re coming up on two of the five biggest shopping mall weekends in the U.S. annually, and at this time of year, the whole Santa’s Workshop / Ms. Claus / elves thing is in full throttle at a lot of… Continue Reading
Heisman Trophy is Saturday night. Yaaaaaay. We all know the award is probably a curse professionally, we all tend to know who’s going to win about 200 hours before the TV program even commences, and this year, we got robbed (in… Continue Reading
Just like the toilet, the umbrella is something you probably don’t think about a lot unless it’s annoying you. But just like the toilet, the umbrella is huge business; via The New Yorker, it’s a $348 million industry annually — and that’s just… Continue Reading
‘Tis the season for those year-end trend reports from organizations with a lot of data, and Facebook went big with their post yesterday. Here’s the official post, which is a little generic: for example, it lists the “top 10 life events”… Continue Reading