Reviewed: The Expendables
Snoop Dogg has his shades. Snooki has her poof. Terry Crews has his abs. In an act of unbridled machismo, Crews popped his shirt off at the New York Stock Exchange last Thursday when he and the stars...
View ArticleField Test: Netflix iPhone App
It was 9:15 a.m. I was sitting in a Starbucks in Chappaqua, New York drinking a tall hot chocolate. My brother was at work and I was waiting for him to pick me up around noon. While men in seersucker...
View ArticleThe Puertori.co Dilemma
A few months ago, my cousin and I were up late one night in his Arlington, Va., apartment. He was on Reddit.com. I was on morewords.com. I was searching for every word combination that ended in ‘co’...
View ArticleThe Social Network, Howard Hughes, and Mark Zuckerberg
Since the beginning of the summer, there have been two books on my nightstand. Ben Mezrich’s “The Accidental Billionaires” and Noah Dietrich’s “Howard The Amazing Mr. Hughes.” Both stories are told...
View ArticleSaturn’s rings formed from the death of one of its moons; Pluto still not a...
Every time there’s breaking planetary news, I fear that some mad scientist has pulled a Pluto and demoted my childhood education. I’ll never forget the Styrofoam solar system I made for the science...
View ArticleNumber alliteration
Oct. 10, 2010 (10/10/10, ten-ten-ten, X/X/X) is one of those calendar phenomenon’s that people completely miss orare completely consumed by. Some couples will get married and some women will have...
View ArticleWhale snot, roller coasters big winners in this year’s Ig Nobel awards
Growing up, my twin cousins carried their inhalers around with them like their lives depended on it. If they ran too fast, they pumped the inhaler. If they stood up too fast, whoosh went their white...
View ArticleThe original Walking Dead comic — now on iPhone
On the bus ride home from elementary school, I’d press my nose against the window waiting for my house to appear. “Thanks!” I’d yell, as I hopped off the bus with my backpack dragging all over the...
View ArticleTwitter temporarily suspends @GaryJBusey because of “valid impersonation report”
Tracy Jordan once said that celebrity deaths come in threes. Today he was proven right. Leslie Nielsen, Irvin Kershner and now, @garyjbusey. Today Twitter officially suspended the @garyjbusey account...
View Article@GaryJBusey becomes @NotGaryBusey after Twitter suspends the parody account...
@garyjbusey is back. For almost six hours on Monday, the infamous Twitter account was suspended because of a “valid impersonation report.” The suspension caused a Twitter uproar and resulted in some...
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