It’s hard to tell adorable hedgehog Mr. Pokee from his replacement, adorable hedgehog Herbee. That’s the point. | Continue reading
Introduced in the late ’60s, the Futuro house was shaped like a UFO, contained built-in shag carpet, and could be delivered by helicopter. Unbelievably, it never caught on. | Continue reading
Turns out selfishness has a sound. | Continue reading
Fuck Jim Spanfeller and Paul Maidment. | Continue reading
A proposed partnership with Google’s Sidewalk Labs is shaping up to be a calamity. | Continue reading
James and Karen met on a more serendipitous version of the internet. Where there were a lot of penises. | Continue reading
As the divide between content creators and consumers flattens, we have started seeing “Drama” nearly everywhere we click. | Continue reading
For decades, Korean-American dry cleaning businesses have flourished in New York. But startups are better funded and increasingly aggressive. | Continue reading
Dozens of “rare Cheetos,” shaped like everything from Donald Trump to a squirrel, are up for sale on eBay. But who’s buying? | Continue reading
Is the best way to find the right answer on the internet to post the wrong one? | Continue reading
Walt Disney’s 1955 dreamworld is painfully out of sync with the present. Can it survive? | Continue reading
Americans are taking on more automotive debt for longer terms than ever before. | Continue reading
With a population of over 87,000, Lower Duck Pond is the largest, friendliest, and oddest city that’s not on the map. | Continue reading
False-bottomed drawers aren’t solely the domain of the detective novel. | Continue reading
Facing rising San Francisco rent prices, the world’s largest collection of punk records and the anti-establishment music magazine that safeguards it must find a new home. | Continue reading
The devices are little more than an exorbitant paywall for education and communication. | Continue reading
A defense of Reddit’s much-loathed philosophy guy, written by a very nice and normal philosophy guy. | Continue reading
And why evolutionary psychologists loved him right back. | Continue reading
A lot of awful people should believe in themselves much less. | Continue reading
Modern wisdom dictates that we dispose of all toxic elements in our life, but that’s a mistake. | Continue reading
We will not defeat climate change by having less of a stake in the future. | Continue reading
The low culture representative has taken to right-wing buffoonery. | Continue reading
Her novels imagine other worlds, but her theory of fiction can help us better live in this one. | Continue reading
When students become customers, it’s much harder to enforce academic honesty. | Continue reading
The futility of open-records requests makes it difficult, if not impossible, for journalists to report on aspects of the criminal justice system. | Continue reading
A growing community called Randonauts believe that journeying to random locations can help put us in new realities. | Continue reading
‘Cold Warriors’ traces how the U.S. and Soviet government used writers like George Orwell and Boris Pasternak to wage ideological battles during the Cold War. | Continue reading
The business press is casually credulous when it comes to reporting on flashy, big-money companies. | Continue reading
John Plant’s ‘Primitive Technology’ YouTube channel helps you build everything you need for a life survived simply. | Continue reading
The video game industry claims its products avoid politics, but that’s a lie. | Continue reading
The video game industry claims its products avoid politics, but that’s a lie. | Continue reading
Traditional aesthetics cannot account for his sweet little face. | Continue reading
But disability — invisible or otherwise — is a working-class issue that the left and right must take seriously. | Continue reading
With the Internet and connected devices, it’s possible to be omnipotent about nearby crimes and “threats,” but the feeling of security they provide is empty. | Continue reading
On the strange experience of living through the only accurate doomsday prediction. | Continue reading
Police cannot truly safeguard the same people at whom they regularly point their guns. | Continue reading
States should not rely on a scam to fund much-needed services. | Continue reading
States should not rely on a scam to fund much-needed services. | Continue reading
States should not rely on a scam to fund much-needed services. | Continue reading
The online world of dropshipping is a scammy perversion of traditional small business, but it might just be the last thing standing in the way of Amazon’s total domination. | Continue reading
How an animal lover’s hobby of recording himself feeding stray cats exemplifies the glory of the anonymous web. | Continue reading
Servers, line cooks, and dishwashers all over America are struggling to find help in an industry that often exacerbates the problem. | Continue reading
Everyone loses when cities compete to draw in members of the “creative class.” | Continue reading
Our experience of calendar time has come unmoored. We may need to consider an alternative. | Continue reading
A serious answer to a half-serious question. | Continue reading
Google’s Featured Snippets are not only often wrong, they’re also damaging to small businesses that depend on search traffic. | Continue reading
The recently announced Playdate handheld gaming system shows that indie games can be just as myopic and male-centered as the medium’s mainstream. | Continue reading