Astrid Phillips Mayer

So, in case you've been living under a rock, the FBI just published this file about Steven Paul Jobs . Yes, that Steve Jobs. When he w...

A historic vote in Sudan - the handiness of this ballot design blows me away. How best to convey to an illiterate voter the choice between...

NY Times: Biggest-Ever Bauhaus Exhibition in Berlin OhboyohboyOHBOY would I love to visit Berlin, and this would be the perfect example of a...

Did you see this Dilbert strip? http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2009-05-10/ I laughed uproariously, then got seriously depressed. Then ...

Real Soldiers Love Their Robot Brethren The bit about Scooby-Doo slays me, and the skateboard idea is fascinatingly simple. I also find EAT...

District 9 - Official Trailer Guantanamo Detainee Suggests Moving Guantanamo Detainees to Ramada Inn

So, here's the latest email I've received from the madcap folks behind Mindshare : We're excited to announce the program for nex...

This was sent to me by my friend Chris Armogida: MPAA suggests teachers videotape TVs instead of ripping DVDs. Seriously. Anybody else feel ...

The Atlantic: All You Need Is Love / How The Terrorists Stopped Terrorism My parents told me about this years ago, and then my dad sent me t...

The Big Takeover , by Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone Magazine (April 2, 2009 issue). In eight pages, Matt Taibbi explains what I've felt in ...

Funny: The Nietzsche Family Circus Funnier: Strindberg + helium Funniest: garfield minus garfield Funniester: XKCD Funniestest: Hark! A Vagr...

Parking ticket leads to a virus in Grand Forks, North Dakota (via BBC News) A real parking ticket always clearly states your violation, so ...

Are we ruled by an oligarchy of banks? Is our government too close to the banks to properly regulate them? Do we need to chop up a few of ...

On a completely unrelated note: over the past week, three different people have told me to stop leaving my purse on the floor, because my mo...

So this random Irish guy named Hugh McGrory e-mailed me recently, and HOLY GRAVY BOATS he is a splendid filmmaker: experimental, but witho...

Celebrating the Semicolon in a Most Unlikely Location (NYT) Did I miss the memo on semicolons? As in, nobody uses them anymore besides me ...

The £10 Ticket to Another Life Back in the day, and by "the day" I mean "anytime between the end of WWII and the 1970s,"...

Disabled Spy Satellite Threatens Earth Great, just what I need -- in addition to all my other concerns, I now have to worry about getting hi...

I just wrapped a short called "The Magic Finger," directed by JR Burningham and produced by Tess Ortbals (who apparently doesn...

Glad I'm not this kid. LOLCat Bible Translation Project Should I be ashamed that I love this? Nah. ThinkGeek: Wi-Fi Detector Shirt Yo...