Author: Andy Wibbels

Alternative health remedies gone awry turning a man into Papa Smurf.

From Working Class Cats: Calico is one of at least three cafes that have opened up in Tokyo this year where visitors can mingle with cats as they enjoy a cup of tea. Visitors to Calico pay 800 yen ($7) an hour or 2,000 yen for three hours in a big room where 14 well-brushed […]

I have over ninety invites from friends to add little widgets and thingies to my profile. I really don’t want to junk it all up. But I have to click each one separately. That sucks.

Marketeer and fellow appreciator of MK-ULTRA, Mark Joyner has a clever ruse for getting some back links. You have to pop in a swatch of HTML into a blog post in exchange for access to the course. I’m curious to see what his course is like since it seems similar to courses I’ve done and […]

Alex Saunders illustrates how to datamine Facebook for your own nefarious purposes: “Simply enter the demographic characteristics you are looking for, and Facebook will tell you how many people match those characteristics.”

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From Esquire: I see Us magazine and People magazine and all these tabloids — they have the same story over and over again. It’s the same every week, and I get all kind of smug about it, and I think, Come on, really? You care about this shit? … It’s tough to stay off the […]

Baba Wawa is featuring the MySpace founders on her most fascinating people. How folksy, they created a MySpace page for Barbara. Amazingly enough they don’t show her waiting three days for the goddamn page to load.

Newsweek reporter and author of Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster on the history of fashion, branding and luxury:

I know a lot of people that absolutely bust a nut over The World is Flat but I am not adept at separating his ideas (along with his horrendously awful execution of metaphor) from his cheerleading for imperialist racist foreign and economy policy. Glen Greenwald hits all the nails on the head: Almost five years […]