SKIRMISHER

Look at today’s world wide web, sift the blogosphere, and eyeball sites like digg or reddit. It would strike you that after all those failed revolutions, the world ended up being sort of Marxist.
As Chris Anderson said:
“Marx himself believed that the industrial proletariat would revolt against the bourgeoisie, creating a state where the workers own [...]

Think of the possibilities: you’re not only “cool” because of this product, you can also be a deadly earphone-wielding ninja! Take this, all you iPod bashers!
Some of “Ex-Marine Brad Collum’s” tongue-in-cheek advice:
Download to the Nano “We’ve Only Just Begun” by the Carpenters. Tell someone you will give him or her your Nano if they listen [...]

Michael Hirsch kicked it in the groin and on the spot: How Washington ended up creating a larger-than-life image of what in reality was a “small and fractious” organization like the Al Qaeda.
Hirsch puts it so well:
But there was substantial evidence showing that, up to 9/11, Al Qaeda could barely hold its act together, that [...]

Retailing for at least $31,000, Vertu’s high-end cell phones are The Shit.
In case anybody’s wondering, Vertu’s a Nokia subsidiary, and their phones are hand-crafted, in the way skilled craftsmen would handcraft a Faberge egg or a Swiss watch–only these things are high-tech telecom gadgets. Its Signature product line, for example, took eight designers a total [...]

Adam Baron’s story, “The Man Whose Penis Made Him Locally Famous,” reminds me of one of my favorite daydreams: there’s a beach and all the girls from Miss Universe 1995 standing in line and awaiting their turn to give me terrific blowjobs.
In Baron’s story, all the girls loved sucking him off for one very compelling [...]

I didn’t expect there’s still some fight left in Britney Spears. This is the cover of the August 2006 issue of Harper’s Bazaar, copies of which have already been sprouting all over the web. After all the not-so-good brushes with the paparazzi in the past many months, you’d think she’s already looking for a cave [...]

I woke up this morning to discover that my PC became smarter overnight: now it tells me that I might have purchased a fake/counterfeited copy of Windows XP.
Well, of course it is! I live in the Third World. Walk around my city and I’ll give you a thousand pesos each time you find a user [...]

“I have to take a dump,” Jessie whispered.
“What? You mean, now?”
Jessie winced; I saw desperation in his eyes. It made me shiver. It made me mutter to myself, Oh, shit, indeed.
This was in third grade. Our teacher, who was heavy with child and terribly cranky, was introducing a new math concept that required us to [...]

There seems to be a growing number of people who hate iPods.
First, the goat is about the non-user-replaceable battery. The Neistat brothers, like other early adopters, realized in September 2003 that once an iPod’s battery dies on you, Apple taps its cigar on a gold-plated ashtray, coolly blows smoke in your face, and tells you, [...]

I used to be a Lara Croft fan, until Angelina Jolie came to spoil it for me. Now, there’s a great-lookin’ reason why I could dip my hand into the latest incarnation of the Tombraider franchise: a hot Brit named Karima Adebibe.
In a Gamespy interview, the new Lara Croft talks about how “kosher” she’s always [...]

According to a survey by Mercer Consulting, the cheapest cities in the world are Paraguay’s Asuncion, Zimbabwe’s Harare, Buenos Aires, Manila, Pakistan’s Karachi, India’s Bangalore and Uruguay’s Montevideo.

It should have been music to the ears. But the sour note is that the whole thing’s relative; those who actually live in Manila–those millions of locals–have many [...]

[The Microsoft gang in 1978]
Now that Bill Gates is handing over Microsoft’s reins to dear old Ozzie, it’s interesting to glimpse how The Man worked in the past decades. In an essay published in Fortune last April, Gates talks about hits and misses, endless meetings, and how something like paper has practically vanished from his [...]

Now that murmurs about Lady in the Water are growing into such a confused cacophony the nearer we get to its official opening on July 21, the creator of such films as The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, and The Village is crying wolf.
Yes, I understand it’s very easy to pick Disney as the wolf here; [...]

I found something that even my fellow evil henchman JB Lazarte wouldn’t dare touch with a ten-foot pole: cats that look like Hitler.
And as if one cat is not enough, the Hitler Cats! blog has a menagerie of these “feline Nazis” that might send even the Mossad running for cover.
Sieg heil?

The whole world is still reeling over Dan Brown’s controversial novel, The Da Vinci Code. Despite “strong evidence” that the King of Kings made it with “The Sacred Feminine,” that subject matter is still unclear.
That is what Brown’s novel is all about. He wrote perhaps modern literature’s greatest thriller/detective story ever, weaving all the rudiments [...]

The Great Newspaper Die-off has probably begun. If recent circulation figures are any indication, the print media in First World America is folding back its carpet.
MediaLife says on the American situation:
Simply put, fewer Americans are reading daily newspapers, and the pace that they are quitting them shows no sign of slowing down.
The average daily print [...]

The coolest way to annoy an insufferable schoolmarm neighbor: Make your own smoke bomb.
It’s easy and fun; you only need some sugar and potassium nitrate. You can dress up as a ninja and use it to evade tax collectors, water bill collectors, electric bill collectors, and all the girls you got pregnant.
If you need further [...]