Recently, the UK-based site, Guardian Unlimited, which calls itself the “best daily newspaper on the world wide web”, held an interesting challenge based on Ernest Hemmingway’s assertion that his best work was only six words long: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” They invited contemporary authors to pony up with some extra-short fiction as well. […]

Dr. Harry Brod, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at the University of Northern Iowa, delivered a lecture on the evening of 3/28/07 at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana, titled, “White Male Identities: Privilege, Pain, and Pride.”
It posed questions such as, what are white male identities? How many are there? What is behind […]

If you know a serious geek who deserves a truly cool accessory (like a ring, a belt buckle, a necklace) or supercool proportions, and you’ve got the dosh to throw their way, you might want to take a look at the enormously droolworthy creations of Han Cholo.
You can’t exit past the intro, but after that, […]

Well, not quite. The blister beetle of old was never really a laudable aphrodisiac for women, but it does have the propensity for inflaming a person’s genitalia after its active ingredient, cantharidin, passes through the urethra, inducing irritation and burning. Of course, that’s after trace amounts are ingested, but a little too much and it […]

Flogging the unforgivable “Pimp My…” meme, King of Shaves-brand shaving products has launched “Pimp My Shave (dot com),” an online voting competition (a la “Am I Hot or Not?”) to whittle out the “dudes” from the “dorks.” (Alternately, the “pimps” from the “jerks.” They aren’t sure.)
Upload pictures of your shave—presumably with some facial hair, although […]

I can’t quite determine if these are going to be on sale or if they’re just one-off promotional items, but these Transformers shoes certainly have a certain something. (The fact that the robots are wearing the same shoes they turn into is a nice touch.) More dangerous than a scorpion in the boot, I’d say, […]

What you see is what you get with the “Cork Wallet,” a $65 MoMA exclusive. The interior has a blue sky pattern and the whole thing is double-stitched to ameliorate fraying.
Just try to avoid putting thumb tacks in your back pocket.
Catalog Page [MoMA via Uncrate]

He was at it again last night. That scumbag. That jackass. That domestic terrorist. I’m speaking, of course about the lead footed bastard of yore.
This time he was talking, very loudly, after 1:30 AM, dropping things on the hardwood floors above our bedroom, scuffing his chair, moving stuff. I bet he was drunk. It […]

Granted, even if I did have the appropriate papers allowing me to use a self contained underwater breathing apparatus, the waters around the 1694 wreck of of the HMS Sussex, which went down in the Strait of Gibraltar off the coast of Spain are too deep for normal diving.
The team that is attempting to […]