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 […]