Category: Noticed

I am insanely excited about this Peter Dinklage biopic of Hervé Villechaize coming up on HBO. Hervé seems to have had a hella life.

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...

Mexican Homer is arguably way funnier than English-language Homer.

Uzbekistan has literally been keeping it a secret that its subway is amazing.

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.

Someone has figured out how to hack into a pacemaker so that it stops, gives shocks, or alters heart rates. Imagine the next war: On the first day 3 million...

Primitive Technology is this dude in the jungle of Northern Queensland Australia that never speaks, but builds all kinds of things using only Stone Age technology. With 8.6 million YouTube...

It's not digital, but I just read The Vorrh by Brian Catling, and it definitely flipped my lid. Part horror (but not really) part fantasy (but not really) and all...

Google now allows you to look up any political ad running on Google, up to this very moment. Often reveals a great deal about the campaign's character.

ALL of Prince's music is now available to stream since a whopping 23 more albums just came on line.

Rueben Bolling's cartoon "Donald and John" as a Trumpian "Calvin and Hobbs" is pretty close to home.

If you need your faith in American politics restored, read up on what Roslyn and Jimmy Carter are up to lately. (Is that a tear in your eye?)

It's been a while since they last posted, but A Chicago Sojourn is an amazing blog about Chicago architecture. Not the big stuff, but the neighborhood vernacular. If you've lived in...

Eight leading designers imagine what President Trump's Space Force logo should be like. Hilarious and brilliant.

Here's video of 1984 cycling superstar Bernard Hinault biked into a crowd of demonstrating steelworkers interrupting his race, jumped off his bike, punched a demonstrator, then hopped on his bike...

If I'm reading this right, Kimberly Guilfoyle was fired from Fox after forcing people to look at her boyfriend, Don Trump, Jr.'s, d-pics.

Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo has a leftist-bent, but he's pretty level headed. His piece about the Russia-Helsinki reactions, "The Bigs Are Starting To Accept the Unimaginable", is unsettling.

It's blackberry season right now, and I made this Blackberry-Sage Lemonade. It was the star of my summer.

Turns out Queen Elizabeth does a lot of messaging through her brooch choices. You gotta read about the significance of what she wore when President Trump visited Great Britain.

Back in 2010, Steve Jobs told Rupert Murdoch that Fox News was, "an incredibly destructive force in our society." And that the real axis in politics was, "not liberal and...

The New York Daily News tweeted a vacuous statement about how great Kylie Jenner's riches makes her. Hundreds tweeted back about their own less monied, but probably richer lives.

If you want to be cool, tell your kid that you've seen the rocket launch in Fortnight.

The Tour de France started this week, which is probably the toughest race in the world. 170 cyclists attempt to race 21 days, with only two one-day breaks, about 120...

This video of a roller coaster ride with a 360 camera is flat out, the trippiest thing I’ve seen. The guy’s unmoving expression is also amazing.

This video of a roller coaster ride with a 360 camera is flat out, the trippiest thing I've seen. The guy's unmoving expression is also amazing.

Shorpy, a collection of high-res old photos is a real find. This color 1958 shot of  Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood on their boat is super creepy, considering how she...

My family watched an episode of "Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown" in honor of his passing. Our choice: Buenos Aires, since we'd been there. Amazingly enough, the episode centered on a...

Wired Magazine does these videos where they explain a complicated topic at a grade school, high school, college, graduate and expert level. This week they explained quantum computing, and for...

If you wonder how often white privilege and and 911 calls intersect, The Root is doing a pretty good job of tracking #__WhileBlack incidents. For a white person like me,...

The Internet Meme Star, "Girl With Distracted Boyfriend" has a shocking history.