"Take care of your memories. For you cannot relive them." - Bob Dylan By no means am I a vintage head. The musky smell, the droves of rags attached to wire hangers, and the soiled fabrics have always been a very unappealing experience to me when perusing vintage clothing stores. But all that changed...

Alright, show of hands. How many of you Internet dorks choreographed some sweet fight scenes with your friends when you were kids? Yeah, me too. One of the great college memories that I have was taking a fencing class. Fencing itself was alright, but for the final project we were supposed to put tog...

I was able to save some files from a laptop that was going south today by running OpenSuSE Live 11.1 and mounting the hard drive then copying the files to a USB drive. Windows repair had already failed fixing the problem, the system just would not boot. The next, final resort would have been removin...

Over at Linux Journal, Dave Phillips catalogs some of the audio hardware that he uses with Linux in his studio. "Some caveats: the gear described here is oriented toward music production, not consumer audio requirements. However, Studio Dave is hardly what I would call a professional studio, so plea...

-Jake T. Snake Unemployment rose to 8.1% in February. That is 12.5 million people without work and presumably in many cases income. If we count those who have stopped looking for work and part timers who want full time work......

Sam is my younger brother, he used to live with me back in my wild bachelor days. I miss having him around to talk to. Here’s our text conversation from today: Sam: Holy crap. Happy birthday man! Me: Thanks bro! I’m getting up there in years now Sam: Yeah I hear that man. Not gettin youn...

Vintage Adidas Robert Haillet circa 1965 If you were to apply the Diffusion of Innovation Theory to sneakers the "Robert Haillet" would be a perfect example of a wild innovator. Adidas created the first all-leather tennis shoe in 1965. At the time the concept of an all-leather fabrication was incred...

(okay, the obvious pun title for this was something like “Hypocritic Oath”. But I didn’t go there, see? Everyone pat my back) Apparently, when some Americans see shitty doctors, they complain to their friends and neighbors. Sometimes they are so upset about the way their doctor beh...

This week's big music story in Shanghai has clearly been the Oasis debacle (even if some people insist on misreporting it). Local music hacks have really gone to town on the British theme, cracking out puns like they were auditioning for a job with The Sun and even indulging in some classic tabloid-...

Cover of The Official Preppy Handbook published in 1980 Page 139 of The Official Preppy Handbook on Men's Shoes Every couple of months this handbook pops up in an article I check or a conversation I have. Published in 1980, more than ever it's a fascinating and humorous read. My copy was a gift abou...