After years of participating on both services, today I deleted my Facebook and Instagram accounts this week. I’m not being reactionary. This isn’t a campaign. I didn’t delete those accounts out of spite or anger. Ultimately...
1) Offer a free service. Show ads. Snap up ownership of content. Sell that content. Use it in ads. Roll around in the piles of free user-submitted content you glean. Chortle with glee. AND 2) Offer paid memberships at reasonable prices. Allow those...
One Sunday afternoon, an elderly preacher — a balding man with close-set eyes, a beak of a nose, and a mouth that turned down at the corners — visited our youth class. He stood behind the rickety wooden lectern, glared at us, and asked, “Do any of...
It’s that time of year again, when people at companies across America struggle to celebrate the biggest, fattest holiday on the calendar … without saying “Christmas.” They mean well. Once upon a time, Christmas was the only game in...
This excerpt from “The Revolution Will Be Televised” proves what I suspected all along: not only did the writers and producers of LOST have no idea what the island was when they made it up … they also had no idea why the series...
Beginning this week, Georgians have the option to buy lottery tickets online. The AJC ran a story on the new feature this morning, complaining that “there was no information about … online sales on galottery.com Sunday.” The headline:...
The box is actually a warm incubator that can be opened from an outside wall of a hospital, where a desperate parent can anonymously leave an unwanted infant. Crusaders contend that the boxes make it too easy for pimps and abusive men to force...
One Rangoon cafe already offers a timely new version of the nation’s staple dish. “Democracy curry” joined the menu last month at the Bangkok Expresso Nudle Cafe. “It doesn’t sell that well, as people aren’t...
Update (7/27/2015): This weekend, someone claiming to be a deliriously happy Foap customer posted a glowing review of foap in the comments of this post. In addition to being written like marketing copy, the post featured a point-by-point rebuttal of...
For me, pizza falls into five categories: 1) authentic Italian-style pizza, distinguished by its wood-fired, from-scratch crust, and simple fresh ingredients 2) American-style pizza (my personal favorite), incorporating cooked sauces, copious...
