Hadn’t really thought about it before, but a book I’m reading (it’s called Range) prompted me to inquire. It turns out that not everybody is subject to the same illusions. | learn more
I noticed this strange can top all over the island. Naturally, I had to look up the back story. “As can tops started to shrink around 1980, they also lost their neck ridging, leaving Hawaii as the last state to […]
Wonderful satire from The Onion. “This saves a lot of time we would otherwise spend tediously pretending to review applications, allowing us to focus on ensuring every student we accept is a good fit for Harvard.” | learn more
Restaurant delivery service Eat24, now owned by GrubHub, was once a scrappy independent upstart. Back then, they had to figure out how to stretch their ad budget to the max. They found the answer on a porn site and turned […]
Thanks to Atlas Obscura for bringing us “the story behind Canada’s most distinctive verbal tic.” | learn more
“Jessica Blevins, 26, is the manager of the world’s most popular video-game player, the ‘Fortnite’ pro Tyler ‘Ninja’ Blevins. She also happens to be married to the guy.” | learn more
I’m linking to a longer article, but quoting this tweet: “In 1989, the cash-strapped Soviet Union paid Pepsi with 17 submarines, a cruiser, a frigate & a destroyer in exchange for $3 bln worth of Pepsi. This caused Pepsi to […]
“A new typeface called Ugly Gerry… Each letter is formed from the shape of a single grotesquely gerrymandered district.” | learn more
I just rediscovered this from years back and it made me laugh all over again. Enjoy! “A classic exchange between a season ticket holder and the Cleveland Browns front office from 1974. It’s a shame that no one would have […]
“The search for the pistol that San Luis Obispo Police Chief Deanna Cantrell lost in a bathroom stall resulted in an apparently illegal search of a home without a warrant and the arrest of a couple on charges of child […]