Superior Minded Dove
A few years ago I hit you with a short blog about a new Dove ad that wasn’t really so much a commercial as a teeny docu-commentary. It examined how women were judging themselves in overly critical ways, and it stated in calming and thoughtful ways that they needn’t worry so much about the twig-thin “perfect” […]
The Cost of Cutting Cable
This past weekend, I cut the cable cord. And immediately broke into a cold sweat. “Could I do it?” I wondered while fighting the urge to curl into the fetal position and suck my thumb. Could I possibly exist without a hundred or so channels of completely useless drivel (that I never watch) sitting there […]
Upsilon Circuit: One Strike and You’re Out
If you’ve ever played an online role-playing game like, say, World of Warcraft, you know that they’re generally vast, open-world games that plop your avatar down in a digital world filled with hundreds of AI characters and literally thousands of gamers (when you tally up attendance across the many servers available). In those make-believe lands […]
Smile But Don’t Touch
Ever heard of a Quokka? No? Well it’s only a cute grinning critter that’s part of the latest and greatest selfie trend on Instagram right now. Oh, and they’re guaranteed to put a grin on your mug while they’re trending away. If you check out this link you’ll see that the Quokka is a smallish […]
Where Space Travel and Reality TV Collide
What would you say if someone approached you and offered you an extended stay in a barren wasteland of sand, mudstone and rock? You’d be heading to a foreign place where the temperature averages out to somewhere around 50 degrees below zero. A vacay away, let’s say, but with no palm trees or rolling oceans […]
Whale, Whale, What Do We Have Here?
OK, you may have already seen this since it’s casually blowing up the Internet faster than Kim Kardashian when she’s trying really hard. But I thought I’d bring it to your attention just in case. Photographer Eric Smith snapped a pic of the picture above when he was out and about in the Redondo Beach, […]
Superheroes Make Super Bet
Well, the Super Bowl is over and you’ve likely read about all the many ruminations, cheers, commercials and jeers that have recently been associated with that sporting weekend event—everything from exasperated cries over coach calls to the fact that America consumed some 1 billion chicken wings during the big game. But there’s one connected story […]
Facebook Figures to Foil the Fibs
I’ve heard it said that trust is like an eraser: It gets smaller and smaller with every mistake made. And while that may appear to be true on the face of things, on social media sites it doesn’t usually seem to apply, does it? I mean, we can find ourselves burned over and over by […]
CES Shows Tomorrow’s Tech Today! (Maybe.)
It’s that time of year again, when happy techies trek to Las Vegas to get a gander at the latest whiz-bangs and whoo-yah gadgets that the tech world has to offer. The International Consumer Electronics Show for 2015 is up and running (it lasts until Jan. 9) and people everywhere are already leering at, laughing […]
Spending a Night at the Museum
There’s another Night at the Museum pic (Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb) hitting theaters this weekend. And while I don’t want to give too much away before our review comes out (we’ll release it later tonight), let me just say: Sir Lancelot and a Triceratops rampage. Maybe that’ll pique your interest. What […]