Amanda, @TrappedAtMyDesk on Twitter, Dies, Age Unknown

She is survived by her 5,141 followers, but did she ever exist?

Perhaps by now you’ve seen one of the latest viral YouTube phenomena, a moving montage set to…

Justice, Not Prayer, Is The First Obligation of a Muslim — Part 1

Sports dynasty

Why Marquette alumni find success in sports journalism

One Console To Rule Them All

A New Strategy for Nintendo

Long for the Stars

The future of humanity depends on it.

“If you want to build a ship, don’t…

6 Things I Learned About Life Since Starting My Blog

What a boy completely new to blogging learned in…

Finding a Smurf 

Making Fantasy a Reality at Quiz Up

Winding Down

A clockmaker counts his remaining ticks and tocks, writes Tom Bentley.

IS IT TOO LATE FOR BIG AGENCIES?

The agency model is anachronistic at best, and in many cases…

A Good Trick to Form Habits

Using Google Chrome’s “On Startup” Settings

Lost and Found

A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit

The Problem With Billionaires

I’ve looked at a few deals this year in which a billionaire was already invested. The first few times this…

A Regeneration Provocation

7 normative primary principles for aspirational urban regeneration

Never Underestimate the Importance of Bands

Musicians and the Aging/Learning Process

Shit That Happened When I Was A Kid

When I was in my twenties, I thought I wanted to be a writer. I started off writing about things…

How to Deal With Fucking Up

I started writing at just about the time I wanted to smash my keyboard. Inside my cubicle inside an office…

I am…

writing this on Friday the 7th of February 2014.

In The Beginning, or Sometime Thereafter… 

What God has to do with Gay Marriage, Pot, the Death…

Conversation in the Cold

a simple exchange of words in Fredonia’s winter air

How do you answer the most important questions on earth?

An interview with Alan Weisman, author of…

My Pet Jinn

The first comic book I ever created invovled capturing a wild goat monster that runs…

Same Same But Different

A T-shirt of Shifting Perspective

Dear Future Husband

I wish that we could go to Marina bay in Singapore to have my favorite $1 SG ice…

Fable

Verifiable knowledge makes its way slowly, and only under cultivation, but fable has burrs and feet and claws and wings and an indestructible…

Vision

Projecting Love

It’s interesting how difficult it is for me to paint a rosy, glorious scene for myself even in…

Baltimore, you’re breaking my car

This is why people need car service

How do you stop the world from getting too full?

What we’re reading this week

Zombies with Keyboards: The Cyber-bullies Among Us

Moving on, easier said than done

When your answer to “how hard can it be?” is “too f****g hard”

Why Do You Want To Write?

An Introspection for ”A Writer’s Journal”

Fear

On Fighting Your Biggest Battle

Lost (and found) in translation

Writing in English as a second language

It’s not about how heavy your load is what matters is how you carry it

The pressure and the struggles 

Let’s be fair!

Welcome to the Sochi 2014 Winter Games

Papa Can You Hear Me? 

5 Things I Learned From Papa