The mass adoption of cellphones as the only household phones people use began three years ago. The trending continues apace: A combined 29 percent of Americans either have only cellphones, or else pair them with a landline phone which they never use fo…

She’s even wearing it on their website ad!

Speaking of Tom Sachs, he’s a multi-media kinda pop-cultural artist, as evidenced by his collection of short films.
They look to be mostly stop-motion animation pieces with funky soundtracks/voiceovers attached. Sachs collaborated with the Neista…

In a decided 180-degree from its previous display of Damien Hirst-arranged animal carcasses, Park Avenue’s Lever House is now hosting giant-sized sculptures of Hello Kitty characters.
Why? Because sculpture artist Tom Sachs considers the cutesy J…

And I was waiting for someone to cite the final line of this mini-skit: “I must say — you steam a good ham”. But obviously, I’ve already run out of patience on that point…

Damn, but that episode was awesome.

Funny thing. It was a miserably rainy day the last time I was inspired to post an iPod Random 8 list, and so it is again today. Must be a trend.

Anyway, here’s the latest shuffle-determined string of output from my iPod Touch (or “iTouch”, if you…

The general fixation on whether or not the economy’s in recession overlooks one key element: Just what metrics are being used to define “recession”, and if they’re correct.
Ignorance about recessions has taken hold because of a …

This should be interesting: I just got a guaranteed ticket to see today’s taping of “Late Show with David Letterman”, airing tonight!
How? The weirdest sequence of events: I was walking up Broadway, killing time while getting within …

Gee, what a surprise. It looks like R.H. Donnelly’s $350-million purchase of Business.com last year has run aground, as both the company’s value and the acquisition’s accompanying talent have evaporated.
In the past year, its shares h…

The above picture of the L Line Bedford Avenue platform harp-playing performance artist is re-presented here as an anonymous favor to an anonymous poster on Subway Crush:
Some weekends I see you playing a giant ass harp at the Bedford stop and I think to…

There’s no ambiguity about the inspiration for Tyler Knox’s “Kockroach: A Novel”, as the book’s opening line should tell you:
As Kockroach, an arthropod of the genus Blatella and of the species germanica, awakens one morni…

Pinball is on the wane and CT doesn’t care: I never could get into it. I don’t mind the concept of the ball as a free radical, but so much of the game forces you to be an observer —……

Actually, what’s more common is the sharing of piecemeal information. Among peers, it’s okay to ask about and disclose charged rates for single projects. From that, I guess you could make a rough calculation of what that person is pulling in monthly/annually. But it’s almost like that’s an optional exercise — if someone wants to figure it out, they’re free to. But no one’s going to confirm it.

I agree about the increased openness when the person is making less money. I suspect as these younger adults start to separate from each other income-bracket wise, the old rules will rear their ugly heads again.

You’re right, “some sport” should have taken advantage of that potential noon start time.

Further evidence that the 20-something MySpace generation has no shame: Disclosing annual salary among friends is now considered practically de rigueur.
For people old enough to remember phone booths, a blunt reference to salary in a social setting st…

Some sport should have taken advantage of the national lull and had a noon game.

Who knew that a slightly-creepy cat humor site did enough business to need an office staff? But it’’s true: ““I Can Has Cheezburger”” is hiring, and is getting more of a challenge than anticipated in the screening process.
Apparently, l…

Who knew that a slightly-creepy cat humor site did enough business to need an office staff? But it’s true: “I Can Has Cheezburger” is hiring, and is getting more of a challenge than anticipated in the screening process.
Apparently, l…

Something very off-kilter is going on in Milwaukee’s public-service advertising scene. Witness:
- A billboard on I-94 that warns against the hazards of driving the highway while distracted is itself criticized as being too distracting:
“When I …

In the same spirit as last year’s self-plagiarism, I’m commemorating today’s Earth Day observance with a blog rerun.
The year is 1990, the place is a dorm lounge in my alma mater, and the source material is an old TV with over-the-air re…

I think she has a child as well.

Remember, that it is not legal to send a subpoena via email unless it has been agreed to by all parties. Also the URL for all U.S. federal courts is “courtname.uscourts.gov” and not
“uscourts.com” as listed in the email. So beware of this and other sophisticated phishing attacks. The Abaca Email Protection Gateway (www.abaca.com) service was the only service I know that quarantined these emails.

So you’ve experienced love at first sight on a subway car, but reached your stop before you could muster up the courage to actually talk to your object of affection? Then you’ll be checking Subway Crush on a regular basis, in the hopes of f…

Combine videogames and symphony orchestras and you get Virtural Conductor, a Guitar Hero for the budding classical music appreciator.
No, wait — I forgot. Actually, what you really get when you combine videogames and orchestras is gaming soundtra…