Clips
A selection of Web and print articles, and books…
How to Become an Intellectual
A definitive, somewhat comedic guide to becoming an intellectual, available in paperback April 2012 from Barnes & Noble and Amazon (the latter of which also offers the inevitable Kindle e-book version). And it’s on sale, of course, in actual bricks-and-mortar bookstores everywhere.
NPR
Harding On The Boulevard Du Montparnasse
The Washington Independent Review of Books
“The New Digital Age” (book review)
“Citizenville: How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government” (book review)
“Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief” (book review)
The Huffington Post
Some excerpts and articles adapted from How to Become an Intellectual:
Cast LOL and Emoticons From Your Lexicon
The Art of Passionately Hating at Least One Classic Author
Embrace Your Alma Mater, No Matter Where You Went
SlashBI
The Billion-Dollar Startup: Inside Obama’s Campaign Tech
Facebook: The Next Big Data-Analytics Platform?
The Dreamliner Scenario: How Data Can Solve Epic Messes
SlashCloud
New York City Kicks Off Payphone Hotspot Experiment
Is Windows 8 Ready for a Cloud-Based World?
Salesforce EVP Sebastian: Platform-as-a-Service Here to Stay
SlashDataCenter
Apple Expanding North Carolina Data Center Facility: Report
The Evergreen Review
The Jailbird’s First Flight Attempt (poem)
Crack the Spine
The White Mountains (poem)
Lost
My All-American Bacchanal’s Deep-Fried Remains
The Modern Man’s Guide to Faucet Repair
McSweeney’s
Friedrich Nietzsche, Chain-Restaurant Bartender
eWeek.com
Barnes & Noble Considering Nook Business Spinoff
Apple iPad 3 Rumor-Mill Gearing Up
Satellite Magazine
Afterworld (fiction)
All in a Day’s Work (fiction)
Playboy
Playboy: The Book of Cigars (2010)
(Co-written with Aaron Sigmond; photos by Ian Spanier)
…and also available in a Kindle edition.
Private Air
John Travolta Waxes Philosophical About Flight
Firefighting Jets Crash in California
Boars and Hot Air Balloons in Tuscany
Morgan Freeman At Home In Mississippi
Bobby Flay In Vegas
Bradshaw In Texas
Thrillist
Casualty Clothing
Wear it to the skate park, not your Mom’s birthday.
FlipNY
Piece on a local clothing line.
Calder Cases
A little something on indestructible (and good-looking) luggage.
The Washington Post
Four iPhone Apps to Try
Dissecting some of the latest Apps for iPhone/iPod.
Finding Like-Minded Netizens Beyond MyFace
Newest in social networking.
Mobile Social Networks: Reach Out and GPS Someone
Yet another social-networking piece.
Fast and Loose With Craig Ferguson Live
Interview with Craig Gerguson, late-night host.
Listen and Learn With Podcasts
Easy ways to learn Mandarin, re-remember long-lost grammar lessons, etc.
A ‘Fountain’ Quest Fulfilled
Interview with ‘The Fountain’ and ‘Black Swan’ director Darren Aronofsky.
A Snowboarder With Business Savvy
Interview with snowboarder and entrepreneur Dave Tran.
Mechanics of Style
Digital Gizmos No. 1: High-End Headphones
Digital Gizmos No. 2: The Porsche Design P’9981 BlackBerry
Digital Gizmos No. 3: Ultrabooks
Digital Gizmos No. 4: Lytro Cameras
100 Thousand Club
Vertu You
Some of the world’s most expensive phones.
Sound & Vision
Chuck’s ‘Buy More’ Versus Best Buy
Comparing the real-life box store to the NBC’s spy show.
The Netflix Queue: How’s It Work?
Dissecting how the Netflix queue, well, works.
Washington City Paper
Perfect the Dots
Interview with D.C. local artist Amy Lin.
WebMD
Help Yourself
Tips for best care in the ER.
Pineapple: A Sweet, Nutritious Treat
Profile of a tasty fruit.
AutoWeek
Old-Time Driver’s Time
Review of antique driver’s watches (co-written with Aaron Sigmond)