Most men travel light, especially when it comes to grooming equipment and toiletries. Even when not traveling, most guys try to cut down on the number of extraneous items used in the bathroom. That’s where this insanely useful article from The Art of Manliness comes in. There are some suggestions in here that I’m going […]
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For Guys: How to Build the Perfect Dopp Kit
Posted 3/19/2008 10:30 am by Adams Briscoe and Andrew Sorcini
Common Cold Cures: From Ancient Chinese Secrets to German Alcoholics
Posted 3/19/2008 9:00 am by Stephanie Sturgis and Andrew SorciniIt’s that time of year when a common cold can really bring you down. The mercury in the thermometer can fluctuate wildly up and down in a matter of hours, sending you from a case of spring fever to just a raging fever when the rhinovirus is thrown into the mix. The microscopic bug is […]
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Hollywood Signs From Around the Globe
Posted 3/19/2008 5:50 am by AJ Star and Andrew SorciniThe now infamous Hollywood sign has become a popular landmark. Hence it being “now infamous.” But this is true not just for the eponymous Los Angeles district, the state of California or even the U.S. Apparently, people around the world have decorated the hills of their town or city with similar gargantuan, white banners. Notable blog […]
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Hydrology: Beautiful Caves Formed Completely by Ice
Posted 3/18/2008 12:38 pm by Adams Briscoe and Andrew SorciniHungry for more nature? We got your fix right here: feast your eyes on these incredible glacial caves. They’re taken by Jason Gulley who explores the magnificent ice caves for a living. Where do these natural environments come from? You’ll have to go to Alaska and Napal to see them in person. A couple can […]
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Video of Quadruped Robot is Incredible (and Creepy)
Posted 3/18/2008 11:30 am by Adams Briscoe and Andrew SorciniWords escape a video like this — it’s one of those things you just have to see for yourself. The DARPA-funded “BigDog” is a robot constructed by Boston Dynamics and is possibly the coolest, most lifelike mechanical beast that money can build. This bot can scale hills, walk through snow, catch itself slipping on ice, […]
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RickRoll Phenomenon Spreads Beyond the Internet
Posted 3/18/2008 10:40 am by Stephanie Sturgis and Andrew SorciniIt’s okay. You can admit it. Come on. Say it with me, “I’ve been RickRolled.” You aren’t alone among Internet citizens if you’ve been swayed by a catchy headline or evocative thumbnail into clicking on a link in a forum thread and, BAM, the next thing you know Rick Astley shows up singing his lame […]
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Stop Wasting Time With Some Helpful Tools
Posted 3/18/2008 10:05 am by Ron Hogan and Andrew SorciniWe all waste a ton of time online. If you have a computer or spend any time in front of a computer with the goal of accomplishing work, actually getting down to do that work will be the most difficult thing you do all day. You’ve got to check your email. Maybe you’ve got something […]
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The Bear Stearns Story Explained
Posted 3/18/2008 8:45 am by Trace Sharp and Andrew SorciniOver the weekend, it was revealed that Bear Stearns was in a heap of trouble. There has been quite a bit of speculating over the past few months of whether or not the economy was in the toilet. With this latest revelation, the argument could be made it just might be worse than people once […]
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An Overview on how the NSA is Spying on you
Posted 3/17/2008 6:33 pm by Adams Briscoe and Andrew SorciniEveryone put on your tinfoil hats and stockpile the canned vegetables. Last week The Wall Street Journal outlined the NSA’s Domestic Spying Program and how they’re collecting all kinds of data. Emails, cellphones, even financial information… they’ve got systems in place for spying on ever facet of American life. This isn’t some evil Big Brother […]
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Useful Websites You Probably Never Knew Existed
Posted 3/17/2008 4:42 pm by Elizabeth Yerger and Andrew SorciniEvery so often I come across a website that helps me out — not just with a interesting article, but a platform or service that makes my life just a little bit easier or even, more enjoyable. Unfortunately, since those sites come around only once in a blue moon, I get that depressed feeling like […]
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What Not To Do: 10 Huge Job Interview Mistakes
Posted 3/17/2008 12:52 pm by Ron Hogan and Andrew SorciniI’ve had some horrible, horrible job interviews. Especially the last one I had, where after the interview, I went into the bathroom and threw up for about 20 minutes, then devolved into a sobbing mess. At least I had the decency to have my serious mental breakdown in private. Sure, it was awful for me, […]
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Exploring Saul Bass and His Influence on Film
Posted 3/17/2008 9:44 am by AJ Star and Andrew SorciniThe average moviegoer does not go to the cinema and analyze the stylistic implications of the music and font choices for the opening credits. Most likely, the average moviegoer does not even refer to watching a movie in a theater as “going to the cinema.” But at times it becomes important to note the significance […]
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Shorter Airport Lines, No ID Required?
Posted 3/14/2008 12:30 pm by Ron Hogan and Andrew SorciniFour Hour Work Week may have found a novel way to skip through the lines at the airport, get onto your plane faster, and get a more professional screening experience. Lose your ID. That’s the key to getting tagged for extra security and getting past the normal cattle chute screening. So long as it saves […]
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Handling The Stress Of Working From Home
Posted 3/14/2008 10:09 am by Trace Sharp and Andrew SorciniMy greatest dream is to work in my pajamas. Of course this is the dream of most bloggers out there. Sitting at home in a muumuu, drinking green tea with Deadliest Catch on the tube and pounding away on the keyboard. Some folks make it a reality when they toss the rat race to the […]
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‘High-Quality YouTube Videos’ Is Not An Oxymoron
Posted 3/14/2008 9:19 am by Ron Hogan and Andrew SorciniThe blurry, grainy, tiny YouTube video you know and tolerate will soon become a thing of the past as Google’s billion-dollar baby is currently in the midst of rolling out out higher quality options for your video clip-ripping pleasure. Of course 480×360 isn’t that much better than the old 320×240 videos we’re all familiar with, […]
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Disconnect Anxiety Is All The Rage
Posted 3/13/2008 11:30 am by Ron Hogan and Andrew SorciniDisconnect anxiety is the hot new disease amongst hardcore computer users amongst my peer group. Depression is so last year; get with the times and suffer withdrawals when you’re not hooked into the Internet like all your friends! Around 68 percent of the US population feels disconnect anxiety to some degree, so you’re not alone […]
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Implosion, Explosion, Blowing Things Up – Building Demolition Videos
Posted 3/13/2008 10:55 am by Stephanie Sturgis and Andrew SorciniWho doesn’t like to see things blow up? Come on admit. From the time we were whippersnappers planted on the couch in front of the TV, we’ve craved explosions. Think about all the Warner Bros. cartoons featuring Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner. Nothing made your pupils dilate more than that cartoon varmint standing next […]
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Most Outrageous and Disgusting Jobs On the Planet
Posted 3/13/2008 6:42 am by AJ Star and Andrew SorciniIt’s Thursday. You’ve been waiting patiently for the past three days for the end of the week to come, and now you’ve almost made it. The end is in sight! Why do we have to work? you ask yourself. In fact, you ask yourself constantly. Well, I am guessing that the people with the jobs […]
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Ordinary Objects Recycled in 10 Unthinkable Ways
Posted 3/13/2008 6:06 am by AJ Star and Andrew SorciniPardon all the upcoming rhymes, but going green seems to be the theme of the week! Ecoble, a fervently green blog, has compiled a list of some of the most innovative ways people from around the globe have found to recycle or repurpose ordinary objects. Notice how the keyword is “found”–past tense. These have already […]
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Creative Buildings Where You Can Get Your Groove On
Posted 3/12/2008 12:47 pm by Andrew Sorcini“There was an old lady who lived in a shoe …” If you were wondering, I think that is more than groovy. I’m sure it didn’t smell too great but then again, at least everyone knows where you live if you lived in a shoe. Living in a shoe could have both advantages and disadvantages. […]
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Now That’s Some Craftsmanship
Posted 3/12/2008 10:02 am by Ron Hogan and Andrew SorciniI tried really hard to come up with a decent Yakov Smirnoff joke for the title of this article, but like this architectural marvel somewhere deep inside the wilds of Russia, all attempts were abandoned. I also tried to make a John Mellencamp “Little Pink Houses” reference in honor of Indiana’s only rock star, but […]
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Are You Paying Attention – Inattentional Blindness
Posted 3/12/2008 8:44 am by Stephanie Sturgis and Andrew SorciniSo you think you’re paying attention. Count how many times the folks in white T-shirts in the video below pass the basketball to each other. How many passes did you count? Did you see the person in the gorilla suit walk through the scene? What, you didn’t catch that? Yep, there was a gorilla sighting […]
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The Sex Scandal Tour of Washington DC
Posted 3/12/2008 7:05 am by AJ Star and Andrew SorciniWith this Eliot Spitzer “Client-9” scandal raging, now seems like the perfect time to reminisce about all the other sexually-charged (so many puns intended) political scandals that have swept our great nation over the last few decades. Online general interest magazine Slatehas put together a wondrous interactive map of our nation’s capital called “The Map […]
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Websites Going Green For Online Shopping
Posted 3/12/2008 6:10 am by AJ Star and Andrew SorciniGreen is this season’s hottest color! Perhaps that’s not exactly true, but according to Divine Caroline, a blog dedicated to putting life into the words of its readers, green is totally in right now. That’s why they have published the article “Ten Green Sites for Good Shopping,” a guide about how to stay green while […]
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Custom Keyboard Creation
Posted 3/11/2008 11:46 am by Ron Hogan and Andrew SorciniI really admire the effort it had to take to construct a microswitch keyboard from scratch, but at the same time you have to ask yourself, “Why?” I mean, I have at least 5 keyboards just laying around my house not hooked to anything. Granted, they’re not trying to be ergonomic like this DIY keyboard […]
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World’s Worst Intersections Create Colossal Traffic Jams
Posted 3/11/2008 11:10 am by Stephanie Sturgis and Andrew SorciniSometimes a traffic jam isn’t created by a never-ending ribbon of vehicles slowing down so rubberneckers can gawk at a fender bender on the side of the city’s busiest thoroughfare. Frequently traffic jams come as a result of city planners with the vision of Helen Keller. Interchanges and overpasses intersect to create loops and loops […]
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Extreme Dining 150 Feet in the Air
Posted 3/11/2008 11:06 am by AJ Star and Andrew SorciniI love it when clichés become reality. No, pigs can’t quite fly yet. But, thanks to one unusual Belgium-based company, now we really can have pie in the sky. The blog Life in the Fast Lane has posted an article about Dinner In the Sky, a restaurant business that gives the phrase “mile-high club” a […]
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Secrets to Saving Money While Dining Out
Posted 3/11/2008 6:43 am by AJ Star and Andrew SorciniI know what you’re thinking. Dining out should mean spending money, not saving money. In the blogosphere, some people tend to disagree. Personal finance blog Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Money has published an article called “Save 50% When You Dine Out” detailing several tricks and tips for eating out that will help to […]
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The Science Of Traffic Jams
Posted 3/10/2008 11:31 am by Ron Hogan and Andrew SorciniWe have all been caught in a traffic jam with no actual cause. One minute, you’re cruising along at road speed, and the next minute you’re hissing and spitting at the windshield because the moron in front of you has stopped. Usually it’s not that moron’s fault, because someone stopped before him. The theory behind […]
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100 Weird Facts About the Human Body
Posted 3/10/2008 9:12 am by Stephanie Sturgis and Andrew SorciniThe human body is one freaky creature. When you start taking a good, close look at some of the odd statistics and facts associated with our human shell, it starts to get a little weird. Consider the fingernails. The ones on your dominant hand (left or right) grow faster than on the other hand. The […]
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