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Scott Adams, creator of every office worker’s favorite comic strip, lost his voice a while back. Now he’s tricked his brain into giving it back.
My theory was that the part of my brain responsible for normal speech was still intact, but for some reason had become disconnected from the neural pathways to my vocal cords. […]

A categorized list:
Hip Hop

Hi-Tek’s Hi-Teknology and Hi-Teknology 2: The Chip are (as the kids say) dope.
VH1’s Hip Hop Honors were great this year. They have been every year.
Dave Chapelle’s Block Party is well worth watching.
Cody Chesnutt was on Block Party. His album called The Headphone Masterpiece makes a good go at living up to its […]

Great Ape Scolded for Pulling Fire Alarm
The fire alarm is on a wall in the bonobo home in an area used by the apes and members of the scientific team. Panbanisha is one of seven bonobos at the Great Ape Trust, and was among the first group to arrive in April 2005. Bonobos are among […]

This month’s issue of Wired (to which I have recently (re)subscribed for almost entirely different reasons than I did in the 90s) has a cover story by Gary Wolf called Battle of the New Atheism. The so-called “New Atheism” is, in particular, the brand of atheism espoused by Richard Dawkins whose latest book is called […]

That’s all it costs to refresh your hipster cool when Threadless has one of its $10 sales. (Like now, yo.)

The Wife and I will be spending Hallowe’en party night with the lovely ladies of the Rocky Mountain Rollergirls.

Because that’s how we roll.

I’m sure you, like all of us, assumed the unfortunate stingray stabbing death of conservationist and TV star, Steve Irwin was just a freak accident.
Well, maybe we shouldn’t be so sure.
An 81-year-old boater was in critical condition Thursday after a stingray flopped onto his boat and stung him, leaving a foot-long barb in his chest, […]

It must have been sometime in college that I read Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind. It easily became one of my all-time favorite novels. (It also makes an interesting gift for a new girlfriend, FYI. There are two copies in my house… I’m just sayin’…)
Now I see that they’re releasing a […]