Why Is Everybody Knitting Chickens?

A couple years ago, my wife began knitting. And when she takes an interest in something, she goes all in. She’s a perfectionist about learning a new craft, so in a short amount of time, she’s gotten pretty damn good. I can’t even pretend to know anything

The Supermodel Snowpocalypse Was Insane

How a fashion shoot turned into a drug-fueled survival saga in the Andes

Science And The Strapless Evening Gown

This story ends in the least predictable place imaginable

Vintage Pranks From Those Ads In The Back Of Comic Books

Harken back to a time when April Fool’s Day was slightly less obnoxious

The True Meaning of Pi Day

How the math nerd holiday changed my whole approach to online creativity

Comics That Resemble The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan Album Cover

And other comic book swipes

An Episode of Bewitched Written By A High School English Class

And a bunch of other things to look at

The Dumbest Thing I Ever Did That The New York Times Wrote About

And why are they so obsessed with standpipes?

I got you these presents

That’s better than yet another gift guide, right?

Lessons From The Movies

Go to the head of the class

Let’s Visit Some Alternate Timelines

Because the one we’re in sucks now

A Real Huge Voter Fraud Scandal [video]

A case that history has swept under the rug

The SNL Superfan Who Saw Every Episode In Person

Well okay almost every episode

The Company Company

We Make Products That Keep You Company

The Found Art of My eBay Folder

Old auction photos as art exhibit

The Perfect Cup of Coffee Doesn’t Exi—

Two coffee men and one flying ring

Weird and Wonderful Filmstrips

[beep!] Turn the knob to advance to the next slide

A Moth Story

Not a story from The Moth

I made a new daily puzzle. It’s called Gisnep!

I’d love to know what you think

A Look Back at StripWare

It’s not what it sounds like

Why you should always email people who make things

In this case, people who make opening credits sequences

Hunting in Central Park

One man’s urban safari

A Real Life Wayne’s World

They went from public access to MTV

Classic Video Game Dioramas

How do you make a diorama of a text adventure?

Media Roundup #2

More of what I’ve been watching, reading, playing