Adapting My Pandora Preferences Based On My Completely Objective Opinions About Music
Don’t you just love how much Pandora knows about you and your taste in music, and the terrible memories from your past it conjures up based on a magical algorithm? So does McSweeney’s Sarah Rosenshine. “One (Is The Loneliest Number)” THREE DOG NIGHT Thanks, Pandora! But I’m going to have to say “No” on this…
The Internet Facts of Life as Explained by a 12-Year-Old
“Mom, I know you have a lot of questions, and I want us to be open with each other. So, I think it’s time you learned where blogs and tweets come from.” Mom, it’s gonna be a long ride to Grandma’s, and while we have some time alone together, I think it’d be good for…
Bear Trouble? There’s a $2,000 Taser for That…
Taser International, the Arizona based stungun maker, today launched a novel version of its often controversial nonlethal weapon: but it’s one geared for felling wild animals like grizzly bears, rather than police suspects or airport detainees. The purpose of the device is to give park rangers, hunters and hikers the ability to disable bears, elk…
The Santa Chronicles: A Look into the Shady Life of the Man in Red
You probably don’t give Santa a second look when you see him in a department store or on a street corner every December…but maybe you should. SANTA COPS By December 2001, Mafia fugitive Francesco Farina had been on the run from Sicilian police for more than five years. Holed up in what he thought was…
So You Want to Be a Computer Programmer…
For whatever reasons, you believe that computer programming is the obvious career path for you. Before you pursue that dream job though, let’s imagine how things would be after a few years. For as long as you can remember, computers and electronics fascinated you. Your future as a computer programmer seemed fated by the timing…
The Worst Part of Coming Home for Christmas
I swear to fucking God, if I come home this Christmas and find out my parents are still unplugging their computer from the wall when they want to turn it off, I will fucking snap. Seriously, how fucking hard can it be? Click START, then click SHUT DOWN. That’s a TWO-step process that for the…