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  • #132 Picking their own Fruit

    It is well established that white people like the past. Vintage clothing, history degrees, and nostalgia are just three examples of how white people show their love for by-gone eras. So when white p...
  • #131 Conan O’Brien

    The recent news that Conan O’Brien will be replaced by Jay Leno has caused white people to erupt with rage and hostility. You might even expect them to lash out and do something about it like ta...
  • #130 Ray-Ban Wayfarers

    White people can do powerful things with their eyes: casting judgment, indicating scorn, and obnoxiously rolling them when someone says something they don’t agree with. Yet in spite of these po...
  • Stuff White People Like Book Available in UK Today, author to talk at LSE on October 22nd.

    Hardie Grant UK has just released Stuff White People Like: The Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions in the UK on Monday 5th October (Retail price £7.99).  It is available from Waterstone...
  • #129 Banksy

    Keeping up with art is hard; trips to galleries, enormous books, and costly bi-annual magazines are just a few of the many expenses you will incur during the process of attempting to stay current with...
  • Dating, It's Complicated: Issue #41

    Dating someone? Well great! Send your craziest, funniest, most embarrassing dating related stories to me at dating.itscomplicated[at]gmail.com!I had a nice little chat with a very kind lady pharmacist...
  • Bioshock Little Sister Grows Up

    Keep Reading Written 2010-03-18 15:00:00 by Caldwell Tanner 87 likes...
  • I Think IT Support Ratted Me Out

    Keep Reading Written 2010-03-18 13:00:00 by Andrew B.  from...
  • Internet Drink Recipes

    Keep Reading Written 2010-03-17 18:00:00 by Jesse E  from...
  • Parents Just Don't Understand:

    Do your parents not understand technology? Do they ask you stupid questions? Do they send you absurd text messages? Do they use words like "MyFace,""SpaceBook,"or "The World Wide Web?" If you've got a...
  • Scientists hide gold with 3D "invisibility cloak"

    LONDON (Reuters) - German scientists have created a three-dimensional "invisibility cloak" that can hide objects by bending light waves.
  • For sale: Nice little runabout fit for a queen

    LONDON (Reuters Life!) - At first sight it seems just another second-hand luxury car for sale but this Jaguar included some special extras in its day such as emergency convoy lights and a direct radio...
  • Huddersfield planning Luddite anniversary

    HUDDERSFIELD, England (Reuters Life!) - The people of Huddersfield are rising up again, but this time it's to celebrate the city's 19th century local weavers rather than smash modern technology.
  • Dogs domesticated in Middle East, not Asia

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - From French poodles to German shepherds, domestic dogs likely trace most of their ancestry to the Middle East, as opposed to East Asian origins suggested by previous research,...
  • Cowabunga! Peruvian hits waves with surfing alpaca

    SAN BARTOLO, Peru (Reuters) - Peruvian surfer Domingo Pianezzi has spent a decade training dogs to ride the nose of his board when he catches waves, and now he is the first to do so with an alpaca.
  • Blue M&M dye may mend broken backs

    The food dye that gives blue M&M’s their colour can help mend spinal injuries, researchers say. The compound Brilliant Blue G blocks a chemical that kills healthy spinal cord cells around th...
  • Tourists miss isle after GPS blunder

    Two Swedes expecting the golden beaches of the Italian island of Capri got a shock when tourist officials told them they were 650 km (400 miles) off course in the northern town of Carpi, after mistypi...
  • Divorce ‘health scars permanent’

    Divorce has a lingering, detrimental impact on health that even remarriage cannot fully repair, a study suggests. A Chicago study involving 8,652 people aged 51 to 61 found divorced people have 20% mo...
  • Burglars pick wrong place to sleep it off

    SWANSEA, Wales, July 27 (UPI) — After stealing about $1,154 in liquor, two burglars decided to celebrate and got so drunk they fell asleep instead of escaping, police in Swansea, Wales, said. Re...
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  • March Madness

    CBSSports.com contacted me last week. I assume they thought of me because I'm so sporty. They have a web service that lets you watch live college basketball games, on demand, during March Madness.
  • Leadership Energy

    I have a hypothesis that people instinctively want to be led by whoever has the most energy. Sometimes that energy manifests itself in fiery speeches, Hitler being a good example. Winston Churchill wa...
  • Another Problem with Complexity

    If there's a theme to my blog posts, it's something along the lines of Complexity is Killing Us. The complexity of investment options is why you're afraid to put your money anywhere but in...
  • Backwards Economics

    Regular economics involves someone starting a company and then hiring people to fill positions. That seems like a sensible model. But I wonder if the Internet gives us a way to flip that around, at le...
  • Stalker Watch

    I decided to not delete all of the crazy Canadian stalker comments coming in today so you could see what I have been dealing with for about seven years. Just sit back and watch. It's fascinating i...

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