As a lazy person, I love living in the future.
A series of gentle taps on a magic device can get me a bagel, the speedy assembly of any Ikea furniture, or a ride home when I’m extremely intoxicated.
Daily Archives: June 19, 2015
My Smartphone Gave Me a Painful Neurological Condition
A few months ago I started getting headaches, and they were weird. If a bad hangover headache feels splitting, I’d describe these headaches as searing, as if someone had hit me over the head with a red hot rod of steel sending electric bolts of pain across my skull.
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Short Film: Trick Meter
Skate videos are a dime a dozen on the internet. But, considering our goal to highlight narratively focused short films, it’s not a particular sub-genre we’ve been keen to feature here on Short of the Week. That is, until we saw Director Simeon Duncombe’s Trick Meter, a skate challenge short that combines the craft of skating with a fantastical premise and some very impressive visual effects.
Why The Confederate Flag Still Flies In South Carolina
The morning after nine people were shot to death Wednesday inside a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, flowers were laid, black cloth was draped and flags at the state’s Capitol building were lowered to half-staff.
Except one.
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Why You Should Plan an African Safari…Now
From its wildebeests and mountain gorillas to its rhinos and elephants, Africa’s iconic animals now face a new and unexpected conservation crisis.
How to Make Money from Your Photos
If you’re wanting to earn some extra dollars and cents from your adventures in photography then there are many ways to go about it online: A growing number of sites can hawk your pictures around and give you a slice of the cut if your work gets picked up. Here are some of your options and the hoops you have to jump through to get signed up.
The Psychology of the Supermarket
We’re all being manipulated by our grocery stores.
The experience of dashing into the local Price Chopper, Safeway, or Piggly Wiggly for a quart of milk and emerging with a bulging cartload of unintended food purchases is universal—and it’s not our fault. Supermarkets make us do it. Or at least they certainly try.
The Fat Cat Collective 