The Struggle for Survival is an Incredible Waste of Time
By next Tuesday you are going to stop asking questions about whether or not the Occupy Movement really made it through the winter and the coordinated crackdowns of the camps around the world. Why? Because by next Tuesday, Earth is … Read More
In the case of Reality v. Reality, we submit the following juxtaposition… Exhibit A:Â Travel Posters for Lazy People by H. Caldwell Tanner via Laughing Squid Exhibit B:Â The Top of My Todo List by Paul Graham via Hacker … Read More
What if this really was a letter from Bank of America’s CEO offering up a confession? Go ahead, pretend… It’s not the real McCoy of course. Unknown person(s) have taken it upon themselves to write this letter for Bank of … Read More
Every week 250 lucky American consumers are quizzed on their thoughts about the economy, the “buying climate” and their own personal finances. The result is called the Bloomberg US Weekly Consumer Comfort Index, or COMFCOMF if you’re sitting at a … Read More
Trees. They’re great, until they’re in the way. Forests once covered half the land on Earth and now claim less than a third of it. Why might we care? Here’s NASA with a few reasons: Trees cool and moisten our … Read More
If you think you can get lost surfing the internet, try adding another dimension to it by going through old newspapers online. It can be a strange experience looking at a past that is at once so familiar and yet … Read More
It’s easy to do what everyone else is doing and eventually we might find out that’s been our only problem all along. If you question how different daily life could be, witness what one artist and a 90 piece marching … Read More
How important is it to be rich, have money and expensive things in your book? Here’s a look at how that sentiment rates across Europe… [European Social Survey via The Economist]
Ape Con Myth Internal Memo April 11, 2012 Re: With Choices Like These Who forgot to open a file on advertising? 00265 it is then. Thanks to Hulu for the incredible specimen with which we start this collection. How many … Read More
If you need a break from filling out your 1040, look no further than xkcd’s /1040/, which happily has nothing to do with taxes despite the timing… (click for full version)
Between the beginning of our universe and the present moment lies 13.5 billions years and so much data that the Information Age hasn’t even put a dent into it yet. Not only did Earth not come together, literally, until 9 … Read More