Sometimes I get an idea in my head and I just can’t let it go. For a few months, I’ve heard this nagging sound in the back of my mind, asking me to revisit Am...

Hot on the heels of Vanity Fair referencing my dad-ness on Twitter comes this Daily Dot piece examining Dad Twitter . I loved this part: If that sounds...

Now, I could have gone another week on Snoop’s “Sensual Seduction”, but I was a little under the weather, and as I understand it there is a rest of the world?...

I don’t ever know how to respond politely when declining a drink without sounding like either a religious teetotaler or a recovering alcoholic (I’m neither) so...

1. Avoided Destiny offers MP3s of most Mario Bros themes, including the Starman/Invincibility theme. I’d been looking for this for some time, and The Mushro...

Why are half the pizza joints in New York City named Ray’s? I think A Full Belly had the definitive answer to this question as part of a series of pizza p...

I have received the following comments on posts from my Pop Life blog. Though they’re ostensibly aimed at the celebrities I discuss on the blog, I prefer to...

You want me to ROCK YOUR BODY? Huh?!...

To the guy who just rolled by my window booming Chubb Rock’s "Treat Me Right": Thank you!...

I am Danyel Smith, and I’m on my whirlwind Virtual Book Tour for my first novel, More Like Wrestling . It’s now in paperback. And I’m happy. Hello!...

Today I had a Patrick Swayze song stuck in my head. It’s the worst thing that’s ever happened in all of human history....

One of the great thing about having dorky friends is that they come up with ideas that even I recognize as being too geeky for human consumption. Such as a d...

The cereal that I eat most days has a big blurb on the back of the box that says, "Just two bowls a day for two weeks and you can lose six pounds!" a...

My, you’re all a sensitive bunch! I wrote a little ha-ha peevish thing yesterday and now everyone thinks I’m mad. This is what I do for fun , kids. Since ever...

It’s like staring into a mirror ....

I am going to make a bad action movie about the Internet and it’s going to be called "Inbox: Klezstorm!"....

From Overheard in NYC observes a young girl and her father waiting for the subway: Then they begin to dance: he takes her hand and puts his other arm aro...

And all good things, they say, never last ....

I am playing Kevin ‘s version of “Desafinado” over and over. I will do so again tonight, when I finally get to read Manual . Which document, I think, shoul...

Someday, Mimi Smartypants will be one of my wives. Part of the reason is because a wife should be helpful, and she helps me stave off my desire for a dog by...

Geek Poetry ? Inspired by absence and distance? Hmm… I’m but a server, awaiting request, Proffering pages at your behest. Since your state persists, I...

What’s amazing is that random shuffle of music’s only been around for 20 years, and shuffling amongst multiple artists and albums has only been around for 5, b...

A lot of times my friends stop me and ask me why I carry my man purse all the time. I tell them it’s because it makes it easier to keep my camera with me whe...

step one: wear my new favorite white sweater step two: get puddle-splashed by a passing taxi step three: cry...

I don’t do the New Year’s Resolution thing, but if I did, I’d use Stan’s . Addendum: And he keeps it all the way real by breaking down white folk smell . W...

Sign you are not the "bad boy" in the band: You start crying when you get arrested . According to The Smoking Gun : “The cops arrested him, p...

There are days and times when all the inspiration I can find is to read about “ What’s Going On ” and then listen to the album, front to back. It’s all the i...

As long as I’m rambling about popular media, I should also mention that the song “Butterflies” off the new Michael Jackson album (Track 7 on Invincible ) is...

I know, I know. A month gone by. And still, that fucking smell everywhere. It’s like my own telltale heart, it’s a damned spot what won’t out. I’ve always thou...

So it’s not something I guess I should say right now, but I never liked those towers. Their only purpose, I said, was to help orient oneself when getting out a...

There’s still so much more that I can’t deal with… I just came back in from outside, and I popped up the window with my webcam to check if it works now. And I...

A better robot: BrainBo adds speech recognition and primitive conversational skills to a Sony AIBO, which is then able to respond appropriately to your word...

Did I already link to this? Everybody else did. But here it is again, Powers Of 10 . Dig this....

My last name is Dash. I got my name from my father, who got it from his. My heart aches because my dad no longer has a dad of his own. I barely knew him, but I...

Ok, someone email me and we’ll go see Astrud Gilberto ....

One of the coolest people I met in Texas was Andre . He’s got a remarkably dry and witty sense of humor, and it was really, really entertaining to watch thing...

Just a reminder: George is a very good writer . That is all....

Do you know why he shares his names with Jesse James ? Because he shoots so well . I did many things during my trip to Texas. I don’t know if it’s because...

To keep you busy while I fly to Austin today, I’ll repost a joke from almost a year ago : A panda walks into a restaurant, sits down, and orders a sandwich....

"Dido? She’s the new Lisa Stansfield. The new Basia. Me? I’m the new Todd Bridges." Chris Rock , commenting on the interchangability of pop st...

I know, I know, I’ve linked to explodingdog before. Multiple times. But there is something so profound and evocative about these drawings that I just can’t...

Have you met Friend Bear ?...

This might even be cooler than AIBO ....

A nice update on the idea of improving tactile feedback is this related concept from Microsoft Research , a touch-sensitive mouse . The prototype appears t...

Happy Birthday, Anita!...