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Dan Aykroyd Explains the Mystery Behind Crystal Head Vodka
Dan Aykroyd explains the mystery behind Crystal Head Vodka which is quadruple distilled using Newfoundland water and triple filtered through Herkimer diamonds. Thousands of years…
A Visit To Google’s San Francisco Office
Christine Songco, a technical project manager at Google, invited me to visit Google’s San Francisco office today which opened just over a year ago and…
Celebrating 50 Years of The Smoot
This weekend kicks off a rather obscure and esoteric anniversary celebration on the campus of MIT, honoring 50 years of the Smoot. Some of you…
PleaseDressMe Shirt of The Day Contest
PleaseDressMe recently launched a new Shirt of The Day contest where each day they feature a new t-shirt on their website as well as give…
Tap’dNY, Purified New York City Tap Water In A Bottle
Tap’dNY takes NYC’s legendary tap water, purifies it and then bottles it for sale. Tap’dNY is a New York City bottled water company with a…
2008 Vice Presidential Debate at The Hat Factory
Our friends at The Hat Factory invited a bunch of us over to watch the Vice Presidential Debate tonight in a snark infested environment where…
Google PSA Encouraging Young Americans To Register To Vote
Google brought several actors together to make the “5 Friends” PSA encouraging young Americans to register to vote while there’s still time.
Sex Pistols’ John Lydon Stars In Butter Commercial
John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten), lead singer of the Sex Pistols and later on Public Image Ltd. (PIL), has made his first ever television commercial,…
Xoc Plays 100 Video Game Songs In 18 Minutes
photo via Concatenation Records I dare you to listen to Xoc’s newest album without smiling. If the retro game nostalgia doesn’t get you, the quirky…
Farewell To Ace Auto, San Francisco’s Most Unique Event Space
Ace Auto, an auto dismantling, computer recycling and unique event space run by our friend Bill the Junkman, is closing for good on November 1st.…