Articles tagged: humor
column: Scooby-Doo, I Facebook you
Posted: Feb 23, 2013Facebook is fantastic. It gives us an unprecedented opportunity to appear in public in our underwear. Unfortunately, for most of us this turns out to be brightly colored Scooby-Doo boxer shorts. I mean that metaphorically, ... Read more »
column: Fighting the Resolutionary War
Posted: Jan 01, 2013It’s New Years! Time to write up your List! We all know pretty much how this resolution thing works. You approach the coming year with good intentions, so you write down a bunch of stuff ... Read more »
Column: This Week's Web Picks: where crime stops; a hoax shall set you free; music zones and zoning
Posted: Nov 24, 2012This is the next in a series of posts on interesting and useful websites. Omega CrimeMapping Last week's reported crime in the West Palm Beach, Fla. area While AnnArbor.com reports daily on nearly every notable ... Read more »
column: Now and Then: The best part of being here is where I've been
Posted: Nov 21, 2012When I was a kid I had a sort-of girlfriend called Catnip Catie. Her name came from the fact that she always kept her personal supply of Whacky Wonder Weed hidden in her cat’s toys. ... Read more »
Column: This Week's Web Picks: echoes of civilization; pomo jumbo; China all the time
Posted: Nov 17, 2012This is the next in a series of posts about interesting and useful websites. ECHO Ur III period cuneiform tablet at Harvard's Semitic Museum, from ECHO portal It is time once again to revive your ... Read more »
column: Siri & Me
Posted: Nov 01, 2012I finally got an iPhone. Mind you, I didn't get the trendy new iPhone 5 — the only model I could afford without hitting the lottery was a creaky old iPhone 4s. This means I will ... Read more »
column: Down to the sea on pontoons - part III
Posted: Sep 26, 2012In Which the Perfect Boat Doesn't Actually Sink When we last left our heroes, Harold and Mike, they were about to launch their newly restored pontoon boat, which we’ve come to know as "Harold & ... Read more »
column: Down to the sea on pontoons - Part II
Posted: Aug 23, 2012In Which I Chip Crud Off the Perfect Boat In our last installment, my neighbor Harold and I decided to buy a pontoon boat together. If you've never seen a pontoon boat, what we're talking ... Read more »
Column: This Week's Web Picks: Found art; the solitary life; the rest is music; 9/11: televising and believing
Posted: Jul 21, 2012This is the next in a series of posts highlighting useful and interesting websites. Found Magazine Remember "found art?" The Dadaists and Surrealists found objects like Duchamp's toilet and "declared" them works of art. Well, ... Read more »
Column: This Week's Web Picks: Life's lengths; creative sadness; the screen as teacher; the web as personal footprint
Posted: Jul 07, 2012Life Is Short This is self-indulgence. It's my nominee for one of the greatest full-length movies ever made - primarily because during its full length of about 52 seconds, it perfectly communicates its message. Read more »
column: Down to the sea on pontoons
Posted: Jul 05, 2012Part I - In Which We Find the Perfect Boat There are some people who say that Pontoon Boats are just for deaf old men in sans-a-belt slacks. To that I say, “What? Speak up!” ... Read more »
Column: This Week's Web Picks: War! What it is good for; watch the birdie; making movies cinematic; when science is embarrassing
Posted: Jun 30, 2012This is the next in a series of posts highlighting useful and interesting websites. The American Civil War Homepage Take a look at these musical Civil War celebrations, courtesy of the 2nd South Carolina String ... Read more »
Column: This Week's Web Picks: A list of lists; online exhibitions; vacation rooms of one's own; advancing the avant-garde
Posted: Jun 23, 2012Listverse What are the top 10 reasons we should revive the Dark Ages? It's a question I've rarely asked myself - until now. But maybe the 15 fascinating facts about salt are more compelling? Or ... Read more »
column: This Week's Web Picks: overcalculating; substances disabused; knots so fast; making fun of the news
Posted: Jun 09, 2012Editor’s note: This is the next installment of a weekly column by Paul Wiener designed to point readers to cool or useful websites. Martindale's Calculators Does anybody really need a website that points to over ... Read more »
column: Banjo Picker Blues - instrument is not the world's most beloved
Posted: May 21, 2012My name is Mike, and I'm a banjo picker. In my last column, I suggested that I intend to exact a particularly fiendish sort of retribution on my son by teaching my beautiful new granddaughter ... Read more »
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