Facebook became one of the youngest public traded companies to join the S&P 500 on Wednesday, December 11, 2013. The Facebook example highlights the capricious way in which modern markets and their profit margins can hinge upon a few drib-drabs of breathless gossip shared on […]
Breaking up is never an easy thing to do and breaking up with grace takes a lot of courage (and some skill). This is a difficult time for both of you and emotions will be high. How you handle all of this will be a […]
Got a spare mil burning a hole in your pocket? Consider treating yourself to a Youabian Puma! The Puma is, for some, the ultimate sports car. For others, it’s a monstrous abortion, a tasteless incorporation of all the standard luxury-car accouterments borrowed from scores of […]
I used to live opposite a modern muscle gym in in South London, and the gym opposed me. It was one of those garish looking things, which at squint looked like something from a hellish sci-fi film where emasculated white collar workers are forced to […]
In the past couple of weeks, two technological oddities appeared in the news, one relatively harmless (or so it seems) and one real crazy. The first was Applebees committing to having tablets installed in their tables so as to facilitate ordering and payment, and the […]
There is a difference between an actual gold digger and a woman with some standards who is financially concerned. A lot of men seem to think that just because a woman won’t date their still-living-with-their-mom, don’t-got-a-job, lame ass, that makes her a gold digger. Uhm, […]
This week, none of my favorite television shows are airing, so I decided to read a whole bunch of literary business. In doing so, I’ve rediscovered one of my favorite thinkers, mostly because he’s the best sort of theoretical jerk bag. So, Internet friends, my […]
Oktoberfest ended on Friday, October 4, 2013, after two weeks of revelry in which a total of 6.4 million visitors, many wearing traditional Lederhosen and Dirndl dresses despite the cool autumn weather, downed 6.7 million liters of beer and devoured 114 oxen, organizers told Frankfurter […]
After a hard day at work I’m often so mentally exhausted that the only thing I can muster the ability to do is to make myself a cup of tea and watch some porn, as unlike my colleagues, the average scene demands nothing of me […]
Because the Internet by Childish Gambino Glassnote Records UPC: 810599020453 Released December 12, 2013 Donald Glover is where it’s at, according to the current showbiz kingmakers at TMZ. Also known as the rapper, Childish Gambino, Glover is the most potent kind of Power Brother – […]
It’s common knowledge (or at least it should be) that most of the animals we’re eating in the states are pumped full of chemicals and live hellish existences in factories. However, because of “Ag-Gag” laws halting activists getting photos and videos of the insides of […]
I was reading Ed King, which is a modern day version of Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex by David Guterson on the metro the other day when all of a sudden this happened: “In the shower, Ed stood with his hands at the back of his head, like […]
Every teenager dreams of the day when their parents leave to visit the grandparents over the weekend so they are free to host a party. Some succeed and have to suffer a mild scolding from the parental units in case some of their booze is […]
A 1969 triptych by the Anglo-Irish artist Francis Bacon sold for US$142.4m on Tuesday, November 1, 2013. This sale, at Christie’s in New York, broke the previous auction record, the US$120m paid last year for Edvard Munch’s The Scream, leaving in the dust previous record […]
In the first of a series of articles weighing up the differences between the U.S. and the U.K., and looking at the special relationship between the two, Maria del Mar begins by focusing on national character. It could be said that the difference between English […]
Have you ever head that dream that you were naked in front of all the students at your high school? Many people have. I’m fortunately not one of them. But I do have my moments. Many times I don’t like what I see in the […]
In the gym it’s easy to focus on just upper body workouts, especially since that’s the most easily noticeable when people see you. However, you don’t want to end up with the chicken-leg syndrome most men get, where they have a well built upper body […]
Photo by Helga Esteb The world of commercial entertainment is more about making money back on top of investment rather than creating something new, fresh and original. Pop music has always been guilty of this. Solo acts and bands have been “manufactured” since pop became […]
The discovery of a new species of carnivorous dinosaur has turned what had been current paleontological thinking on its head. A newly discovered species, Siats meekerorum, (pronounced ‘see-atch’) was, it turns out, the apex predator of its time, and kept tyrannosaurs from assuming the top […]
India’s Supreme Court on December 11, 2013, took a giant step backwards when it ruled to reinstate a colonial-era law, which imposes a 10-year sentence for “carnal intercourse against the order of nature with man, woman or animal.” Protesters around the world demand that the […]
