Month: November 2019

Zagat Guides are back in print! Okay, just New York’s and just for now, but they’re back. Is there a demand for that in an online age? (Source: New York Times)

The theft of camera equipment from a guy’s car illustrates how technology has made that easier. That wasn’t supposed to be how it went. (Source: KCBS-TV/Los Angeles)

A newspaper ran a lovely obituary for someone who turned out to be very much alive. Not everybody gets to read his own obituary. (Source: The Guardian)

Let’s talk about the lawsuit someone filed against Madonna for starting her concerts late. Is it an understandable complaint or a get-off-my-lawn moment, or both? (Source: TMZ)

Here, we have a couple of stories about rocks in the news, one about the kind you’d wear on your finger and the other getting in the way of traffic. There’s also some Millennials-killing-everything talk, if that’s the kind of stuff that you enjoy. (Sources: CNBC, CNN)

There are some new additions to the Toy Hall of Fame. Naturally, I have opinions.

Someone tested expensive Nike, Adidas, and Under Armour sneakers and found that price and quality are not always related. We knew that. We also knew that it’s not about quality. (Source: CBC)

The latest health advice is to eat yogurt and high fiber foods every day to ward off lung cancer. There’ll be different advice next week, no doubt. Do you even pay attention to these studies anymore? (Source: KABC-TV/Los Angeles)

A guy with experience and education was so exasperated with his job search that he ended up handing out resumes on the street. It worked, and now he’s working, too. But that says a lot about the real unemployment picture, the one the numbers don’t tell you. (Source: WFLA-TV/Tampa)

Drones are interfering with firefighting in the California wildfires. Maybe we can’t have nice things. (Source: Los Angeles Times)