Typography symbols are constantly recontextualized, but punctuation marks are eternal. At least until 1962 when the interrobang “‽” was created. American Martin K. Speckter concocted the interrobang itself in 1962. As the head of an advertising agency, Speckter believed that … Continue reading →

Went to see Hero this evening (short review: state of the art hack and slash, worth seeing) and got a dollar bill back in the change that had been stamped with a message saying “Track My Journey Across The U.S.A! … Continue reading →

Following from the similar “Yesterday’s Tomorrows” and “Out Of Time“, “Transportation Futuristics” is a treasure dump of retrofuture eye candy with a hundred years’ worth of monorails, SSTs, flying cars, floating cities, etc.

One of my Tivo season passes was set to the French language education series French In Action. I’m notoriously difficult at picking up languages but French In Action‘s screwball combination of odd French film, SubGenius-style blipverts, and a wildly gesturing … Continue reading →

Red Bull drinkers might believe that they’re king of the extreme when it comes to hyper-caffination, and according to the alt.drugs.caffeine FAQ Red Bull does indeed have a lot of it, but it’s a puny #2 behind German soft-drink Afri-Cola … Continue reading →

I just posted this final message to the Pure-Impure mailing list: Folks – I’ve been in a housecleaning mood recently so unless someone can give me a good reason to keep Pure-Impure around, I’m going to delete the list. There’s … Continue reading →

Way back prior to 9/11 and the current state of national FUD, The Onion published a famous satire titled “Our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity is finally over”. Dan Chak revisits the article now and finds that most … Continue reading →

Had a terrific long weekend out on Catalina Island. OK, it could be just another tourist trap if you let it get to you (especially on a holiday weekend), but if you dig around a bit it’s easy to uncover … Continue reading →

I had no idea just how unhappy the lives of rural mailboxes were until I read this Boing Boing thread. I’ll leave the obvious “rural yahoo stupidity” comments as an exercise for the reader, but the follow-up thread on rural … Continue reading →