David Friedman

The Empty Picture Frame in the Oval Office

A White House secret revealed!

He Was From The Sun

Revisiting Morgan Taylor

Murder in the Hundred Acre Wood

“They’re funny things, Accidents.” —Eeyore

Innovations in Juggling

How many ways are there to throw balls in the air?

Don’t Stuff Your Cello in the Overhead Bin

Unless you have one of these.

A Spectacle of a Post

The unexplainable success of a mundane piece of content

What We Did Waaay Before Twitter

There was another medium where characters were precious

♫ Twitter is a Dumpster Fire ♫

With apologies to Billy Joel

Lessons From My Favorite Video That Nobody Watched

And why you might want to

Westworld Is Here and the Bodies Are Piling Up

There are a lot of dead hosts in my ChatGPT graveyard

The Strangest Computer Manual Ever Written

It's dark and funny and unlike anything else

The Last Calendar You’ll Ever Need

The best calendar is the one you have already. Or at least it should be.

The Batter Blaster Breakfast

Three inventors packed in one newsletter

A Podcast I Don’t Have Time To Make

But if I did, this is what it would be about

The Funny Pages in Modern Times

A new approach to consuming old media

Announcing Ironic Sans: The Series

A video adaptation... of a newsletter?

Did A.I. write this New Yorker cartoon caption contest finalist?

I make the case that it did.

The Father of Home Video Games

In which I save an interview that's not going especially well

It’s a Media Roundup!

What I’ve been watching, reading, playing and listening to lately

Darth Vader answers the Proust Questionnaire

Plus other famous characters from fiction

I Get No Mail and It’s Glorious

But it messes things up for the rest of the neighborhood

The Logic of Baseball

Introducing a new kind of puzzle

The Segway Inventor and His Comic Book Father

A tale of two Kamens

The Story of The First Software Patent

It’s the opposite of what you expect

3D Gaming Before VR

And how classic games are coming to headsets