Mind The Facial Hair
April 25, 2010 –First impressions mean a lot – especially when you’re confronted by some strange dude with a bush on his face. Is he a teddy bear? A misunderstood philosopher? A fresh release from the Penitentiary? You can answer all of those questions – and more – with Matt McInerney’s soon-to-be-legendary Trustworthiness Of Beards!
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Net Worth Fighting For
April 21, 2010 –Did the onerous income taxes of the 1950s and ’60s affect the behavior of big-money boxers? The Atlantic’s Henry Fetter believes so, as he explains in his recent article:
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Dig That Crazy Solar System
March 20, 2010 –Take a break from the Enya and immerse yourself in SolarBeat’s orbital ambience, courtesy of the nine planets, the asteroid Ceres, and UK design house WhiteVinyl.
A Disturbance In The Force
February 23, 2010 –Imagine, if you will, the burger force – a field of energy radiating from every freshly-cooked patty, earth-penetrating and inverse-squared with distance, that compels the hungry carnivore to seek out and devour the well-done ground beef at the source.
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More Steeps Of San Francisco
February 4, 2010 –Last November, as previously detailed, we searched San Francisco’s less-photogenic neighborhoods for under-appreciated inclines, rewrote the City’s “official” list of steepest streets, and discovered Prentiss Street, which, at a maximum grade of 37%, matches Pittsburgh’s Canton Avenue as the most-tilted urban thoroughfare in the world.
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Kung Fu Typing
January 26, 2010 –If you’re one of the fortunate few who’s successfully completed a typing class, dance those ballerina fingers across the keyboard, you lucky devil!
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Color Me A Dinosaur
January 15, 2010 –First, Pluto got a demotion. Then, surfing the FM dial, I heard a Styx song on the oldies station. And just yesterday, park-side, a nanny chided me: “Star fish? No, kids call those sea stars nowadays.” Oh, really?
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See Dick And Jane Streets
January 7, 2010 –Could you be described as a first grader? The parent thereof? A map geek? A goofball? Someone who, when visiting the souvenir shop, compulsively searches for their name in the rack of miniature license plates? If so, read this article!
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