Chicken and Peppers
I made this roast chicken and bell peppers recipe twice last week. Easy, and super fall-like.
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Markle Car Door
The American in London continues to cause a stir. Sometimes by just getting out of a car.
LIDAR Mayans
This is a BFD: Turns out Mayans had tens of thousands more structures than we thought, with millions more people living in the Yucatan a thousand years ago than originally...
Seal Octopus
Holy shit! That seal just hit a guy with an octopus!
Saturday Morning Around The World
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdaRNPxfyoA[/embedyt] If you’ve been paying attention to the news, you know that the American world fell into a shitstorm this week. Rather than write about the big topic we’re...
iPhone XS
I'm not excited about getting a new iPhone, but then the new XS camera seems amazing. This brief video, shot by "Crazy Rich Asians" director Jon M. Chu with a...
How The Internet Works
This handy (fake) video about how the internet works is perfect.
Bill Murray
A documentary about all the crazy shit Bill Murray does is coming out.
Flipping The Script
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq73helcwjA[/embedyt] This week, I'd like to flip the script and ask you to help tell a story. I want to tell the story of 9:00 a.m., Saturday morning of...
Dropped Letters
Proving that English is a mashed up amalgam of many languages, it turns out there's a few letters that have been dropped from the alphabet over the centuries. Here's a...
Sperm Donor
One (kinda) anonymous sperm donor is responsible for 44 children. One of those children is trying to meet all of her biological siblings. A beautiful story.
Cessna O’Hare
These two amateur Cessna pilots decided to fly into O'Hare Airport and record it. Their diligence and attention to detail is a tribute to amateurism. It doesn't have to be...
Weather Channel Flooding
This Weather Channel VR depiction of how bad hurricane flooding can get is amazing. I hope it changed some people's minds about sticking around the Carolina Coast this past week.
Just A Shell
[caption id="attachment_200" align="aligncenter" width="533"] Lou Fourcher, at Loyola Beach in Chicago, June 2012.[/caption] It begins one of two ways, either a call to your cell marked “No Caller ID”, or...
Three Friends published books
Three people I know have published really good books. Thor Hogan with a smart look at how fossil fuels built America and the steps we need to take to move...
B-2 Bomber Ride Along
This story of a B-2 Bomber mission ride along is amazing and terrifying in it's pure, antiseptic distribution of death.
Herve and Peter
I am insanely excited about this Peter Dinklage biopic of Hervé Villechaize coming up on HBO. Hervé seems to have had a hella life.
Burt Reynolds and Nicolodeon Guy
Let's remember the time when Burt Reynolds got mad and dumped water on Mark Summers, the Nickelodeon guy, on the Tonight Show back in 1994. Remember when watching Jay Leno...
How I Should Have Seen The Fall Of Alternative Newspapers In 2003
[caption id="attachment_188" align="aligncenter" width="550"] New York City newspaper boxes, April 5, 2016. Source: Flickr/Dumbo711[/caption] After years of working in the federal government, the annual conference of alternative newspapers seemed downright...
Mexican Homer
Mexican Homer is arguably way funnier than English-language Homer.
Uzbek Subway
Uzbekistan has literally been keeping it a secret that its subway is amazing.
VV Closes
The grandaddy of them all, the Village Voice alt-newspaper, is closing. Anyone paying attention to media, except alt-paper owners apparently, would have seen this coming.
Going Deep On Vacation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZONVeGOtyo Every summer Teresa, Nicolas and I take a week vacation right before school starts after Labor Day. This year I tried to think hard about what the time off...