The Wiki Memory Crutch, a Recipe, and Answers from the Internet

Twenty-four hour access to a hypothetically unlimited store of information is both a blessing and a curse. The always-on Internet and the emergence of resources like Wikipedia that conveniently store peripheral data on everything known to man have put the inner-workings of the world at our fingertips—but that doesn’t mean it’s made us any smarter. [...]

The Casino Economy: Pay Cut E-mail Compilation

My last post was a short riff on Matt Taibbi’s diligent one-man mission to expose the failures of financial oversight. His reporting has been one of the few salves for my disgust over the unchecked power of financial institutions that have accepted taxpayer money, and his tenacity has helpfully reminded everyone who forgot just how [...]

The Making of Moonwalker: Letters to SEGA

It has been said (in small, unimportant circles) that a man is truly a man when he has been made into memorabilia. By that measure, Michael Jackson was unquestionably a superman and may have bested Superman himself when it came to merchandising. Michael graced everything from lunch boxes to lamp shades, but his master stroke was Moonwalker, a video game made by SEGA back in 1990.

Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker is an action-adventure arcade game that answers a very simple question: What if you were Michael Jackson and you had to dance-fight your way through caverns, streets, and bars to save kidnapped children from ne’er-do-wells?