Here’s a fun way to torch five minutes. Click the month and then the day, and it spits out the #1 pop song for that date every year back to 1891. It suggests you look up your birthday, and also suggests you look up the approximate day you were conceived. I never noticed this until … Read more
Way back in 1994, one of my very first adventures online was joining the now-gone Kiss mailing list run by Hunter Goatley. Recent interaction with man-children (for whom “homo” and “pussy” are high-quality retorts) on the Van Halen newsgroup made me once again remember and appreciate the value of folks like Hunter. He’s a nice … Read more
You’ve played with Google Maps for an hour or longer straight before, right? The house in which I grew up is in Anniston, Alabama, in a community called Golden Springs: Here is where my mother’s parents lived for most of my childhood, and where we went when we were going “to the beach.” A lot … Read more