[Updated below.] Currents is a lovely new app for Android and iOS devices. In fact, you can read Forbes on your iPad or your smartphone as one of the flagship magazines for the fledgling app, and it looks great. is edging its way into a market dominated by apps like Flipboard, another popular news-and-blog reading […]
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This is what Skyrim would be if it were made into an 80′s cartoon. (via The Mary Sue) I so badly want this to be a real show: But wait, there’s more… This is what Skyrim would be if it was put into the time-slot between Family Guy and American Dad. You can follow me […]
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The popular first person shooter is headed to consoles in new-and-improved form in 2012. I’ve played a ton of video games, but if I had to choose I’d have to say that no other first-person-shooter even comes close to Counter-Strike: Source. It’s the perfect game. Indeed, it’s hard to imagine how Valve could improve upon […]
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Tony Soprano, Walter White, and a plethora of other men comprise the ranks of popular anti-hero dramas on today’s television sets. But where are the female anti-heroes? Alyssa Rosenberg picks up the too-much-ambition-in-TV thread that David Haglund started a while back (read my take here.) She thinks that it’s not so much a failure of […]
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It’s impossible to say exactly what might happen if the Euro collapses. The death of one of the most important currencies in the global economy is too disastrous a scenario for any of us to wrap our brains around. Debate over what’s to be done to save Europe and waylay whatever short-term collapse is in […]
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I have written as a friendly critic – or a skeptical supporter? – of the Occupy movement many times now. Over the weekend I wrote several posts condemning the police violence at UC Davis and UC Berkeley that occurred this past week. Before that, I wrote several posts about the limits of the protest movement […]
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Marco Arment’s review of the Kindle Fire is scathing: I expected the Kindle Fire to be a compelling iPad alternative, but I can’t call it delightful, fun, or pleasant to use. Quite the opposite, actually: using the Fire is frustrating and unpleasant, and it feels like work. For most people, every other computer in their […]
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Okay, the title is totally misleading. My apologies. I don’t actually think that men are funnier than women at all. Indeed, I think that Alyssa Rosenberg is right on the money with this assessment of the sexes: It’s particularly interesting that men would be given more credit for being funny even though they tend to […]
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Whatever the merits of the gold standard, I don’t see it happening in the next five years. Where is the political will? Ron Paul remains steady in the polls, even surging a bit lately, but still a long ways from the White House. And unless I’m mistaken, Paul is the only serious contender for the […]
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I’ve been taking a critical stance toward the enthusiasm exhibited at , but I want to take a moment to point out that for all my skepticism, we really do need risk-takers and entrepreneurs if we want to overcome the obstacles of the future. Resource depletion, global hunger, oppressive regimes, mediocre education outcomes, and skyrocketing […]
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