by Logan Sachon
Molly McAleer has about sixty million projects going right now, and one of them is going to lead to…
Everyone’s dug into President Obama’s official reading list for his vacation this week on Martha’s Vineyard: Richard Price’s Lush Life (which is terrific), Kent Haruf’s Plainsong (which sounds interesting), David…
General Motors has announced it will remove the GM “Mark of Excellence” logo from its vehicles. The individual brands-Chevrolet, Cadillac, etc.-have been faring better than the corporate name in market testing. “What we’re seeing is the GM brand gets…
Lots of people are playing a little game this week-you can play along at home, it’s easy! The game is called: On Which Page Of Mary Gaitskill’s Nutty Memoir About Her Lost Cat And Everything Else Will You Start Weeping? It’s not a fun…
Things from England: “Bank Machine, which runs 2,500 ATMs across the country, has set up five cash dispensers in locations from Spittalfields to Barnet that offer customers the option either to request cash in English, or ‘moolah for ya sky…
“With the diffusion of larger computing screens supporting multiple windows and browsers, chat and SMS, and portable media coupled with social and work expectations of immediate responsiveness, media multi-tasking is…
That’s weird! Two mentions of Hopscotch, the conceptual 1963 book by Julio Cortazar, this week. One occurs in Doree Shafrir’s interview with the new head of the company that is rebooting the “Choose Your Own Adventure” books. (I KNOW!) The other occurs in…
“By posting items online, Californians and people from other states and around the world can participate in the Great California Garage Sale. This is a win-win for the state and for shoppers…
AdFreak points to this St. Louis Riverfront Times article about physician Alexander T. Kalk, whose dramatic…
Let’s talk money: Everything’s going crazy! The White House today announced that “U.S. unemployment would be higher and the budget deficit larger than previously thought,” to the tune of $9 trillion, or $2…
“The activities of the CIA in carrying out the policies of the Bush Administration were directly responsible for defeating all efforts by al Qaeda to launch further mass casualty attacks against the United States. … President Obama’s decision to…
As mass trials against reformist elements take place in Iran, the government is denying…
Damn it, I would have sworn it was Megan Fox’s year: “Actress Jessica Biel has overtaken Brad Pitt as the most dangerous celebrity to search in cyberspace, according to Internet security company McAfee Inc……
“You know I don’t usually like to tell people what I’m doing, but I am talking to a couple of car companies about possibly being the voice of their GPS system. I think it would be good if you’re looking for directions, and you heard my voice, saying something like…
I’m currently reading Jedediah Berry’s The Manual of Detection and rather enjoying it. When I received it I noticed-yes, I am JUST THAT PERCEPTIVE-that it had no dust jacket; rather, the cover design was on the actual book. The Observer’s Leon Neyfakh reports that this is a growing…