Timothy Leary’s Missing Book

And other auction house stories featuring Madonna, Neil Armstrong, Picasso, Thomas Jefferson, a Conehead, Bob Dylan, Johannes Gutenberg and a Koch Brother

Ode To Your Childhood

Love poems to items from the past

Idea: Procedurally Generated DJs

Because we listen to music in the future.

Can you identify these movie and TV stars?

Not actors. Stars.

Norbert Wiener’s Magazines: Part II

Concluding our visit to the cybernetics pioneer's attic

A Vanity Supercut of Your Name

As long as your name is David

Norbert Wiener’s Magazines: Part I

A visit to the cybernetics pioneer’s attic

Everybody Still Hurts

The comment section on R.E.M.'s video is a special place. But something is missing.

Adventures in Stereograms

A Cross-Eyed Story

Wheels Down on YouTube

In which my first ever YouTube video gets half a million views

Manna Manna 6-5000

And Other Tiny Mashups

Inventors I've Known

Starting with Inventor #23

Vaccines At The Movies

(And on TV)

Showrunners On Couches

Nobody taught these people how to sit

Unnecessary Novelizations

Plus: The Inventor of the Massage Chair

The Time I Loaned A Billionaire $20

Plus: A Better Pizza Box

The Tragic Genius of Brent Lee Farley

What happens when invention meets obsession

Smörgåsbord

A selection of tasty leftovers

Clownfall

A true story of crime, infatuation, betrayal, and death. And also clowns.

Fun With Celebrities Holding Signs

Make your favorite celebrities say anything!

The Cause of and Solution to All of Life’s Problems

A Story About Long Island Iced Tea

The Other Victims of Lincoln’s Booth

The President's fate wasn't the worst of those who were there

You’re looking for what now?

Plus: The nutty Nobel Prize winner we can thank for the COVID test

The Best Bar Bet Ever

And who should star in the movie version

At the Old Video Store

The only time I ever worked as an illustrator