Month: August 2007

  • MySpace Keeps You in Style

    Check out the new MySpaceTV Fashion Channel.

  • Big Brother Bossman

    Is Your Boss Spying on You? According to Kim Zetter, of Reader’s’Digest, “It’s legal, it’s happening and it can get you fired.”

  • Take the Red Pill into the Meatrix

    Rake food writer Jeremy Iggers recommends The Meatrix.

  • Hair of the Hound Dog

    So, we’re riding through the Upper Peninsula last night and decided to stop in Hancock, Michigan. Walked into a little mom-and-pop liquor store called The Shottle Bop — I’m not kidding — and right up to a shelf with The King Cabernet Sauvignon 2003, third edition. The bottle features a photo of Elvis from his…

  • It's the American Way: Vote, Consume, and Go Mental

    FILM Cast Your Vote Today is the final day to vote on your favorite entry for the 2007 Screenlabs Challenge Audience Award. Have your say. Watch each of the short films. Then vote here. May the best film win. ART Consummate Consumers OVERSTOCKPILE is artist Mari Richards’s latest exhibit of “sculptures and installations exploring the…

  • A Norwegian Cabernet, perhaps?

    My very talented co-blogger Ann Bauer is much too modest and self-effacing to mention this herself, but she just published another terrific piece in Salon.com, on the impact that global warming is having on the world’s top wine-growing regions. You can read it here.