Robin Pelka: have a dance for me 25 Sep 2009 | 12:37 pm

Our friend Robin Pelka passed away this past Saturday after her battle with brain cancer. She sent this open letter to her email list late last year, in hopes that it might be published or at least re...

The most epic health care debate on Facebook ever. At least until tomorrow. 15 Aug 2009 | 11:27 am

This is an epic thread spawned from a status update by my friend George. To me, George is a devout conservative and would like nothing more than to see Obama's plans fail. And he has a few friends tha...

Legendary guitarist Les Paul dies 14 Aug 2009 | 05:00 am

Gibson official press release on the death of Les Paul: New York, NY…August 13, 2009…Les Paul, acclaimed guitar player, entertainer and inventor, passed away today from complications of severe pneumo...

Where I can be found these days 19 Jul 2009 | 11:35 am

Nothing worse than leaving your blog to waste away unattended. I thought I should at least update you on my whereabouts so you didn't think I'd completely lost my mojo. I have not abandoned pure/ROKE...

Fast Times at Facebook High 30 Mar 2009 | 10:24 am

Read this weekend's NY Times piece on Facebook's explosive growth (from 100 million to 200 million in one year). For all its recent user revolt—usually via their status updates, ironically—the only so...

A quick note to The Fix's Chris Cillizza about Jon Stewart 27 Mar 2009 | 03:24 am

Chris, I like your work, man, and I follow you, so don't think this dismissive or an attack. I was just thrown by your recent piece on Jon Stewart's dismantling of Jim Cramer and MSNBC. You posed the ...

[Video] FedEx Cargo Jet Crashing in Tokyo, Japan 23 Mar 2009 | 07:47 pm

I can relate to the video of this sad crash, an accident possibly caused by high winds. When I flew to Japan in 2006, we were diverted at the last minute due to a typhoon that was hitting the area. Ye...

Six Degrees of Separation Anxiety: Meeting Sidney Poitier 12 Mar 2009 | 01:56 pm

"The imagination is not our escape. On the contrary, the imagination is the place we are all trying to get to." —Paul (Will Smith) in Six Degrees of Separation I've never been one of those sons who w...

I, Robot: Boston Dynamics' All-too-Real Machine [VIDEO] 6 Mar 2009 | 11:52 pm

Howard Kurtz: "Newspaper Industry Staggers" 2 Mar 2009 | 08:15 am

From the Washington Post — Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper recalls getting "a feeling in the pit of my stomach" when he learned that the Rocky Mountain News was shutting down. "Even when they were unco...