10 Things Our Grandkids Will Make Fun of Us for in 2070
Everyone besides Pharrell gets old eventually. It’s inevitable. Sure, if you’re a millennial or younger, that’s hard to imagine right now. But the process of you becoming old, aka uncool, is already in motion. There are kids in diapers at this very moment that will be cooler than you in… [Read More]
High Art: Weird is the New Good
I’ve always been a fan of the absurd. I spent most of my high school Saturday evenings sprawled across living room floors with friends watching terrible ’80s horror movies like House IV and kids movies like Going Bananas. Whether it was a woman fighting a demon-posessed talking pizza or a… [Read More]
Why I Haven’t Requested a Standing Desk at Work
I work at an online media and advertising agency, which like so many other new or startup companies, features an open office floor plan. When you enter through the double doors from the lobby, everything and everyone is in front of you, which can be a bit intimidating if you’re… [Read More]
Strangers on a Train…Until There Was a Video Game
I was already five hours into my journey traveling across England – from Newcastle to Cardiff, for those of you in the British geography know – when I walked into the packed train carriage at my final connection in Birmingham. A voice came over the loudspeaker. “This train is overcrowded…. [Read More]
BlackBerry is Officially the RiFF RAFF of the Mobile Market
In case you were still fooling around with your new iPhone trying to figure out how to meta-delete inappropriate photos in iOS8, you might’ve missed that BlackBerry is spinning out some new hardware of its own. With its awkwardly square design, the aptly named Passport is BlackBerry’s first real take on… [Read More]
Jobr is for Lovrs
When a friend introduced me to an app called Jobr, I thought she was messing with me. She dubbed it ‘an unholy lovechild between LinkedIn and Tinder, spawned in the most debased, Google-glassiest annals of Silicon Valley.’ It turned out to be a fairly accurate description. Copying the “swipe-left, swipe-right”… [Read More]
Do Girls Actually Use LuLu?
A year or two ago a friend’s girlfriend showed me my profile on LuLu, an app in which women review men. I was taken aback and immediately full of questions. Was there really some sort of secret society of digital women judging my every move? I understood why my humor might be ranked so… [Read More]
PHHHOTO and Exploring New Social Media Networks
Before social media went mainstream, communities interacted through forums centered around specific interests, comments on sites like ebaumsworld, and internet chatrooms. Following this sort of internet stone age, digital networks built around the people we see in our daily lives became popular at scale. First MySpace allowed us to share pictures… [Read More]
4 More Dumb Kickstarters That Might Be Worth Funding
We’ve all heard about “Potato Salad kid” – a project on kickstarter that got 465778% of its money raised for one man’s potato salad, and growing. Sure, Zachary Danger Brown (not a kid) made a really dumb Kickstarter. Since you seem to love throwing cash at any cause you find… [Read More]
The 5 Worst Kinds of Snapchats
Snapchat is great. It makes us feel like our friends care about us so much they want to share bits of their life with us. In reality most people are really only paying attention to one Snapchat story: their own. This doesn’t mean all snapchats are bad. A nice video… [Read More]
