Election Night Fever, Google and BBC style!

Election night! It’s the biggest political showdown of the past four years, and people all over the world, not just in America, are taking part.
The BBC’s special election website was packed with features. I don’t have a working television in my apartment anymore, so I watched their streaming video all night as they tallied [...]

The next Chris Crocker

Check me out on YouTube… clearly it’s just a matter of time until I’m weeping for Britney’s sins before an audience of millions.

Salon Radio with Glenn Greenwald

I might be outing myself as a bleeding-heart liberal with this, but I have to say, I really love Glenn Greenwald. His blog, on Salon.com, is one of my must-read news sites, and I try to check him out every day. He’s a pretty scathing critic of the Neoconservative branch of the Republican party and [...]

It’s the happiest time of the year!

Martin Margiela on the Half-Shell

Martin Margiela is one of fashion’s most shadowy figures. He never shows his face at his own runway shows, is rarely interviewed or photographed… and yet has been designing some of the craziest, best clothes since the 1980s.
The New York Times archive is a good place to start reading about his life and designs.

Style.com’s directory [...]

Blogging towards the finish line

Shawn Courchesne has a gig that would turn most sports writers green with envy.
At a time when most newspapers are whittling down their staff, forcing writers into even more heated competition over the big stories, Courchesne has not only a bonafide niche but a healthy-sized, ever-growing loyal fanbase.
His hot topic? Auto racing–but that’s only [...]

Make it snappy

Shares slide amid bail-out fears…
Extinct tortoise ‘can live again’…
Beard Cap Brings Out The Bear In People ?
One of these headlines is not like the others. But that’s not to say they didn’t all catch your attention.
Catching the viewer’s attention is the first and most important step in writing a good web article. A bold headline [...]

Getting a leg up

This is from a few weeks ago, but it made my day when I first saw it in my inbox. Susie Bubble, one of my favorite style bloggers (check her out, she always finds the latest, greatest new designers before anyone else) and a professed tights maniac, has a little feature and interview with Urban [...]

Tech Toys on the March

Last year, my then-69-year-old father got a cell phone for the first time.
Owning a regular, no-extra-features mobile phone is nothing particularly special, especially in today’s world of BlackBerries, iPhones, headsets and video chats. At the current rate of planned obsolescence, my father’s cell phone is likely to be as outdated as a telegraph pole [...]

September 11th in the U.K.

In the United States today, public officials, survivors, and family members of those killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington, D.C. are gathering together to recognize the anniversary of the disaster. Regular Americans all over the country, even those with no prior connection to the World Trade Center, were shocked [...]