E-readers change how some people read, what they carry on planes, what they keep on bedside tables. And now many people are keeping just about everything on bookshelves, except, well,…
In Double Shadow, suffering puts its hypothermic hand on the backs of all living creatures. In that sense, it might help to think of it as a spiritual book, a…
Self-promotion alert day 7: even though we’ve reached our stated goal, we are still a few dollars away from finishing recording our second album. maybe you would like to help?…
Apple’s newest tool for convincing people to buy an iPhone? Shame. Helping blind people navigate their environment is the newest awesome Kinect hack. The porn industry might soon have its…
Stirring but brief portrait of the 50 Japanese nuclear plant workers crawling in the darkness, exposing themselves to radiation, in desperate attempt to stave of nuclear meltdown.
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., publisher of The New York Times, has announced the paper’s new, somewhat convoluted, digital subscriptions plan. Not surprisingly a workaround to the paywall has already been…
Baseball’s spring training—really winter training—seems pretty superfluous these days. Most players employ personal training staffs, stay in top shape year-round, and hone their skills relentlessly with the aid of the…
Not usually a fan of these mash-ups, but this one—the great museum sequence from Brian De Palma’s Dressed to Kill (1980) set to Brian Eno’s song “Third Uncle”—works just fine.…