Nov 25,2008
Felicitous Phrases
Shamelessly ripping off Tyler Cowen, I present today’s sentence of the day: “The more money that was paid, the more men that were laid, the more ladies that were made.”...
Nov 25,2008
The curious case of “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
I noted to myself a while back with some apprehension that F. Scott Fitzgerald’s wonderful short story, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” was being made into a movie. Now,...
Nov 25,2008
Why the iPhone Is Cool
This: “Steve Demeter wrote ‘Trism’, a sliding-block, color-matching puzzle game, in his spare time, and put it on Apple’s App Store for $4.99. Just two months later, the game had...
Nov 25,2008
We’d only get 12 f***ing people on the plane
Ann Althouse points out that fat people must be given two seats for the price of one on airplanes. This, of course, made me think of Ricky Gervais’s brilliant take...
Nov 25,2008
The Murder Bus Tales
The man sitting next to me is having a rough day. Bleary-eyed, shirt untucked, hair in mild disarray: He looks like life is moving faster than he’d like. Apparently, he...