Give credit to Jim DeRogatis for being a relentless pain-in-the-ass to Bono in the middle of a glad-handing radio event last night in Chicago. While I imagine Bono would have preferred to discuss whether the new U2 album is just a great 2009 album or the greatest, DeRogatis decided to ask a series o...

Should we say Yes more often; or do we say Yes too often? Seth Godin recently had a great blog post "Looking for yes" where he contrasted his experiences at the post office and Fedex.  The post office personnel consistently looked for reason why they couldn't accept his package for shipment while ...

I've aspired to zero inbox for years, but it took a new member of the Social Signal team to help bring that aspiration into focus -- a team member who has utterly transformed my personal productivity. As our operations manager and my executive assistant, Morgan Brayton has reorganized our financial ...

Self-appointed Black political leaders could not wait to speak out against New York Daily News racist comic, but where is the outrage against Domestic Violence when that was in the news? Where are those same leaders to decry the rising scourge of Dating violence in the Black community? Political com...

I just don't get it -- why take the chance? What's wrong with paying some pimply adolescent $6/hour to serve ice cream? You have to look at his ugly face, that's what. Still, I want the record to show that I am anti-robotic ice cream server. These Kuka industrial robots were programmed by 26 student...

There is a lot I could say about outing people and using the Internet as a weapon. But honestly? The people doing this already know that they are in the wrong. They are simply trying to derail the conversation from the focus on cultural appropriation and aversive racism with all these false claims a...

The Aquapeutics (now to be known as AquaPEWtics) luxury steam shower has everything a person could want, plus a whole bunch of other crap, and a $4,300 pricetag. This spaceship-worthy shower is loaded up with two handheld showers, a waterproof LCD TV, a radio, massage jets, a steam box, overhead lig...

Remember those $8 ice balls? Yeah, i bought a bag too. What can I say, I was drunk and my credit card was on the desk. Anyway, pi ice. They're ice cubes in the shape of the pi symbol. The reusable tray is available from Thinkgeek for 9 bones. I bought one, and I even went so far as to make my own dr...

(photo by Tory Williams) In this over-mediated, completely saturated terrain we all consider our lives, it's shockingly hard-pressed to find an act that's absent of even a marginal amount of weaselly self-importance.  But a humble, self-reliant tree grows in Brooklyn and a band, a set of guys who c...

Oh hell yes. Now that's what I call drinking like a king! A Lich King. ZA-ZA-ZA-ZING! These World of Warcraft beer steins come in three models: the Lich King (pictured here), the Blood of the Horde, and the Alliance United (go HERE to check those out). Each costs $90 and is far superior to a Solo cu...