Category Archives: Allure

Yahoo! I damn thee.

In some states, even if you want to divorce, the court won’t let you. Why?

Cost of a free stapler

Wise Bread told me how to get a free Swingline stapler. It’s not Milton’s red stapler but I did have my eye on staplers at the store, so I was interested.
The survey starts with an email address and at some point they’ll collect your mailing address. There was no link to a privacy policy so [...]

School shooting conspiracy theory

School shootings (Again) offer no explanations.
Gun control lovers fill their tanks on this stuff (State lawmakers push, pull on gun control following NIU shootings).
This time, investigators find a link (Gunman, Virginia Tech shooter used same Web dealer) suggesting that the shootings might have had a third party in common.
Besides well-meaning but misguided Americans, who would [...]

Voted #1 Vodka of 2033

What a clever way to get free advertising in places they could not otherwise go unspammily. After I made this portrait they gave me an HTML snippet to embed and I totally fell for it:

Meet My Future You - Find Your Own Future You

Remind me about this in 2033.

How can you tell a nightmare?

I, as my present self with my present possessions and obligations, woke up in a hotel in my college town at the end of a spring semester. All my gear was gone. I was without clothes, wallet, keys, phone, briefcase, computer.
My house—it had ceased to be a hotel room—was full of excited people taking their [...]