Since it’s a given that the average gig you or I would go to is going to have a video act, could we please have more than laptops to make pretty videos with? This company makes a couple of tools worth looking into, including a very toy-looking VJ guitar and more excitingly, the Tactic all-in-one [...]

i’m leaving for hong kong at 9pm and realized at 4 that i couldn’t find my passport. the last time i saw it was thursday afternoon, when i made a photocopy (how
ironic) at gnomon copy in harvard square…

i frantically called every store and restaurant i’d been in since thursday afternoon, including gnomon. all of them [...]

i thought this machine made extensive amounts of bubbles, not pianos.

Conrad Harper just last night announced his resignation from the Harvard Corporation, saying only that he can “no longer support President Summers.” Some wonder why he didn’t say more, others opine about what he didn’t say and rehearse the available rumors. I say he said all that was necessary. Anyone who [...]

Those of us who call places like Flatbush, Brooklyn home have been able to see the ghosts of the PATRIOT ACT detentions for a long time – the understaffed small grocery stores, vacant restaurants, fatherless children. Thankfully, there’s now also this incredibly well done installation piece to bring those ghosts into the faces [...]

So we all know that, aesthetically and politically, nostalgia is bad (if you don’t, time to brush up your Benjamin). And that wearing CBGBs shirts if you’re over 40 is kind of quaint and if you’re under 40 kind of lame. But still, the closing of this admittedly overly commodified East Village icon [...]

...is that they can’t fight back. Although it probably won’t go anywhere, and although he’s still anti-abortion, anti-gay marriage, and fiscally terrifying, Bill Frist has done something reasonable today, suggesting that stem cell research is not actually satanic. (Or at least, that if it is satanic, that shouldn’t influence policy.) Here’s [...]

This is a case of some serious bad luck. Just a few days ago, four Boy Scout leaders died at the organization’s giant Jamboree gathering. As the group was setting up what was to be the dining tent, a large central pole made contact with a power line, electrocuting the men holding it [...]