I Do Things So You Don’t Have To

First of all, how much fun is it to say “Wordle”? WORDLE! I want to “Wordle” all my words from now on. I Doodle Thingdles so Youdle Don’t Have Toodle. Oh, it’s fun. But Wordle is more than a silly word. It’s a way-cool “word cloud” application that allows you to take a bunch of [...]

Look at me hypnotized and half alive, maybe it’s four or five Some parts are sleeping, some parts are paralyzed Just one more minute . . . just one more minute . . . Last night, Dave made a chilling announcement. At some point today, all our TVs will go dead as a result of [...]

The world outside is so big But it’s safe in my domain Because to you I’m just a number And a clever screen name * Alcoholics have their booze, smokers have their cigarettes, crackheads have their . . . crack. As an editor, trivia buff, curious human, and language snob with a constant need to [...]

Wheee! I found a new toy. It’s Google’s VisualPoetry hack, and it’s even more of a time-waster than shooting sheep with a stun gun. As the site tells us: VisualPoetry translates any text into a series of images by looking up the words on Google image search and projecting the most relevant results as a [...]

Some say you can learn a lot from books Thrill right to second-hand living Life is just as deadly as it looks But fiction is more forgiving * Ooh! A list of books. My stomach is churning with excitement. What this is, readers, is a list of the top 106 books most often marked as [...]

With a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound He pulls the spitting high tension wires down* When I first started reading about Cloverfield, I thought it would be fun to write about how the Internet People have infiltrated movie marketing, creating so much buzz and hype before anything of substance has even been released, actually [...]