Five articles I've read and enjoyed recently.
Why '27 dresses' isn't a patch on 'Annie Hall'.
I have very little interest in the military and those who aspire to it, but this story about people who lie about it is very interesting.
A very insightful and funny article about growing up.
John W. Keely's elaborate 19th century engineering and science hoax.
A look in to a handful of locations that are keeping arcades alive.
Five articles I've read and enjoyed recently.
A sumo wrestling tournament. A failed coup ending in seppuku. A search for a forgotten man. How one writer’s trip to Japan became a journey through oblivion.
I didn't go to a mall until the late 90s, and I'll wager those in the UK are nothing like those in the US. Still, I found this fascinating.
Why Elton McDonald built the Toronto tunnel that captivated the world.
A man and his cabin in the woods.
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Five articles I've read and enjoyed recently.
Sometimes TV shows drag their unfunny, uninteresting, yet highly rated feet across our living rooms for years. “Who let this happen?” we cry in vain.
The inside story of a golden child, the killers she hired, and the parents she wanted dead.
Forty-two residents of the struggling cotton-farming town of Roby band together to enter the lottery. They buy 430 tickets. Then - on the eve of thanksgiving, no less - they hit the jackpot, winning $46 million. You might expect a happy ending. Not even close.
So much sense.
Nearly half of Americans would have trouble finding $400 to pay for an emergency.
Five articles I've read and enjoyed recently.
Another tech job we shouldn't need.
How have decades of mass media and technology changed us? A writer returns to his remote hometown — once isolated, now connected. And finds unexpected answers.
This advice has always sounded irresponsible to me.
What should happen when patients reject their diagnosis?
This was a disaster waiting to happen.
Five articles I've read and enjoyed recently.
I'm a very tidy, ordered person, trapped in the body of a clutterer.
David Sedaris on a family trip to the beach.
A life-long challenge for me.
Race across the internet from point A to B using only a one-button mouse: no keyboard, no search, no URL bar, no back button.
David Sedaris and a literary version of reality TV.
