How can you tell the number of vacant houses on a block? Easy. Just look for the houses with phone books piling up on the porch. The phone book spammers count those property-value killers into their circulation numbers, which is how they sucker businesses into buying listings in the yellow pages. Mi...

Many tech geeks will often say that their first forays into cyberspace began with a 300 baud modem and a BBS. I’m a little younger than that (finally, I can say that!), but I was an early adopter of social networks from when I first opened my 3.5″ floppy of Promenade (later to be called ...

Recently, we all received the latest of the of increasingly useless "phone books" that the phone company insists on publishing, despite the fact that many, many people never look stuff up in them, choosing to use the internet, instead.  The bag of books sat unexamined on a chair in my dining ro...

The Village Voice’s Michael Musto reveals the gayest phone book page anywhere. (via towleroad)...

Filed under: Video Games Picture this: it's Christmas morning. You've been drooling over the PS3 for a year now but haven't been able to afford one. You open one final, big present under the tree and, low and behold, it's that Sony console you've been dreaming of. But, when you open the box, you're ...