When you’ve outgrown kiddie technology — two cheap tin cans and a piece of string —  it’s time to get a ToddiPhone! Better range and reception, and nearly as inexpensive. At ToddiPhone we use only the finest, imported steel cans and hand-wound twine.  The result is supreme durability and unmatched fidelity. It’s absolutely nothing like [...]

American feminist, democratic socialist, pop sociologist and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich explores the hazards of forced positiveness, the subject of her book Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America.

Steve may be the latest example of a drummer whose showmanship is completely incongruent with the music he plays, but he’s certainly not the first.  Check out this guy:

It’s been a few weeks since I first saw this, but it refuses to go away.  Sometimes I use my blog as a personal bookmark for things I’ll probably want to watch again in future years.  This would be one of those cases: My first thought upon seeing this video was, “If Tommy Lee ever [...]

Latest in my series of website fail pages is Foursquare, who, late on a Sunday evening of all times, served me up this:

At ToddiPhone we never pretend to be anything expect what we are.  We’re cheap and we know it.  And you wouldn’t have us any other way. It’s nothing to be embarrassed about.  It’s who you are.  Be proud of that. When cashiers ask you to donate to the Children’s Hospital and you lie, “I already gave.” Cheap. [...]

These are my 4-year-old’s favourite socks — black, red and orange, emblazoned with flaming skulls. If there is a drawer full of anything, they are guaranteed to be the first ones selected for that day’s outfit. Some of you may be thinking, “Cool!” or “Weird!” or “Boys will be boys”, except my 4-year-old isn’t a [...]

Isn’t it lame when companies pretend to care about you?  Aren’t you tired of being sucked up to with vapid, inane suggestions that you’re special and important? We’ll never insult your intelligence that way. The fact is, at ToddiPhone, we won’t pretend to like you.  You’re not important to us — your income  is.  There.  [...]

In observance of National Public Service Week, I’d like to recognize some of my stellar peers who are contributing to making GCPEDIA the brilliant, vibrant place that it’s becoming.  Specifically, I want to offer my thanks and a small token of my gratitude to the gnomes and gardeners who are toiling regularly to make our [...]

A helpful tip from Google, if you didn’t know about this already: Gmail doesn’t offer traditional aliases, but you can receive messages sent to your.username+any.alias@gmail.com. For example, messages sent to jane.doe+notes@gmail.com are delivered to jane.doe@gmail.com. You can set up filters to automatically direct these messages to Trash, apply a label or star, skip the inbox, [...]