Why, he would Twitter during mass, just like the folks at Mars Hill Church, of course: ...They weren’t talking, but “Twittering,” typing in brief thoughts or messages for their friends to read in real time. "How does the service impact them, what does worship feel like to them and ...

Is Apple planning an e-book reader? (Probably not, but they will probably make ebooks much easier to read on their future devices, and they might begin selling books in the iTunes store.) Also, Symtio is an ebook content and commerce platform. There's a good interview with the vice president of the ...

Apple introduced the new iPod Shuffle today. It's about half the size of the old Shuffle and it now holds around a thousand songs, instead of the 240 songs of the old, square Shuffle. The controls have been taken off the device and are now on the ear bud cord. And there's a new system to help you or...

I watched the fourth episode of Dollhouse last night. (First episode recap here.) In this episode, Echo, the blank slate who gets programmed with different personalities depending on the super-secret mission she's assigned to, gets involved in a botched art heist. Unlike the first episode, which sho...

It's a week old, I know. But, seriously, come on: (Via Res Ipsa Loquitur.) Related: A great poem by the very great Jim Dodge called "Unnatural Selections: A Meditation upon Witnessing a Bullfrog Fucking a Rock" [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]...

Geekologie has a post up tossing us toward the Belt Sword, a sword you can hide in your belt. The website describes it as "World’s First - Massive Sword - Hidden in Pants Belt." Hopefully, this will take off like gangbusters and become a nationwide craze, like a lethal Snuggie. There are many ...

Slate ran a story on Friday that follows up on my story about how Amazon.com does just about nothing for the Seattle arts community. It turns out, Amazon does just about nothing for any charities at all: ...Paul Constant, books editor at the Seattle alt-weekly the Stranger...hit a stone wall: "[Amaz...

I can't believe I've never heard of Loose Cannons before: A Washington D.C. cop (Gene Hackman) teams up with a man afflicted with a multiple personality disorder (Dan Aykroyd) who speaks in the voices of Tweety Bird, Captain Kirk, Pee-Wee Herman, Ricky Ricardo and the Wicked Witch of the West. Toget...

Here is a poem about Stan "The Man" Lee. You're welcome. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]...

The Vulture has a look at why nobody's buying U2's new album. It seems to us there could be a million reasons Horizon might not be catching fire: Is the dull cover not standing out enough on CD racks? Did everybody see its perfect review in Rolling Stone and assume that only their dads would like it...