If you’re sitting at a desk, put your feet up. Lean back, stretch yourself out. Clasp your hands behind your head and try to take up as much space as you can. You’re a starfish.
Archives for 2010
Battling the Bullies
None of the recent teen suicides were unpreventable. Here’s how we move forward.
Sexist Tech: A Tablet for ‘Young Housewives’
Italian design-house Alessi is introducing the Tab, a tablet computer designed to serve an apparently untapped market—young housewives looking for a product that will allow them to surf the net and do the dishes at the same time.
Americans Cut Back on College Savings
‘The percentage of families who planned to make little or no contribution to tuition increased, while the percentage who expected to cover more than half of expenses decreased.’
Poking Zuckerberg
Do Harvard students spend their weekends snorting cocaine and ordering caravans of strippers?
Farewell Blogger Hottie
Why? Because she is as full of radness today as she was on the day we first started flirting. Throughout the summer we made you want to throw up with our sickly sweet tweets and our completely rad blog posts. Some called it “The Blogmance” and more than a few people figured there was a…
The ‘Paratrooper Dads’
Stan Brooks’ generation is rewriting the Dad Handbook. Here’s how.
Man of the Day: Abdul Razziq
While he might not fit any conventional definition of “good,” Abdul Razziq is helping make Afghanistan safer for American forces. That’s good enough for us.
Perfect: The Enemy of the Good
She said that I suck at my job and will never go anywhere in life. Then she insinuated that I was a fat, rotting pile of crap. Isn’t she the best?
Study of the Day: Positions of Power
“The high status achieved by some men and women in gender-incongruent occupations can be unstable, vulnerable and ultimately fragile.”
Men Think They’re Good in Bed, Women Don’t
American men think they’re better in bed than they actually are. Either that, or they’re having a ton of sex with foreign women.
A Meditation on the Great American Beer Fest
I remember sitting at the foot of my girlfriend’s bed one morning and realizing that I’d only had sober sex three times in my life. The night before, I’d actually thrown up a bit of beer foam on her belly in the midst of it (she mistook it for sweat).
The League of Ordinary Gentlemen
The League allows us to criticize the banal minutiae of man’s hyper-reality addiction while squeezing in a few fart jokes.
Androids Turn on Their Masters
Google’s tight-knit relationship with advertisers just got a little kinkier. When you launch certain apps on your Android smartphone, you run the risk of sending your personal information, including location, to advertisers. Without your permission, naturally.
My Own Worst Enemy
It’s no surprise to me I am my own worst enemy ‘Cause every now and then I kick the living shit out of me Lit I like myself. Not in a boastful way. I don’t puff my chest out and say, “Look at me! I’m the shit, yo!!!” I do say ‘yo” a lot, but…
A Good Thing to Do Today: It’s a Shoe-in
We know there are at least a few pairs in your closet that are staring at you forlornly from your shoe rack.