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Everyone knows the best way to get to know a place is to ask a local. And now Icelandair is giving you the opportunity to do just that. This winter, the airline will provide some travelers with a Stopover Buddy if they choose to spend time in Iceland between flights. It’s the latest step in…
Tuesday Feb 16, 2016 · 2:13 PM PST 2016/02/16 · 14:13 A short while ago, a desperate Jeb decided to go all out, crazy-pants style and posted this mindless thing on Twitter: There you go, America. His name is on a gun! Kinda a lame font if you ask me (for a gun, that is)….
You’ve probably never heard of Chris Costello, but there’s a good chance you hate him. Outside of Comic Sans creator Vincent Connare, Costello is perhaps the most vilified man in all font design. Costello, you see, is the father of Papyrus, a calligraphic typeface he first created in 1982. I never intended Papyrus to…
Watching Ben Folds perform his songs on piano at the Tiny Desk, there seems to be a direct line between thought and expression, except perhaps when he stumbles or forgets a line or two. Folds has a knack for plainspoken, smartly crafted words that sometimes sting and always seem to speak the truth — like…
PPP’s new South Carolina poll continues to find Donald Trump with a wide lead in the state. He’s at 35% to 18% each for Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, 10% for John Kasich, and 7% each for Jeb Bush and Ben Carson. What’s striking about Trump’s support is how consistent it is across different demographic…
TV comedies love callbacks, running jokes, and hidden “Easter eggs.” In this video, we explain the difference between those three devices — and how Comedy Central’s Broad City uses them all to make its fictional world weirder and more wonderful with every episode. Broad City is a hilarious, profane delight. Since its Comedy Central premiere…
Any space-enthused kid has endured the crumbly, chalky agglomeration of flavors known as “astronaut ice cream.” We deal with it because of the supposed connection to the lives of real space explorers. The only problem is that astronaut ice cream is a lie. As the above video shows, this legendary children’s treat has a surprisingly…
After a couple shot 14 people in San Bernardino, CA before being killed themselves on December 2nd, the authorities recovered a locked iPhone. Since then, the FBI has complained it is unable to break the device’s encryption, in a case that it has implied supports its desire for tech companies to make sure it can…
Incentives are fascinating. Dangle the right carrot in front of people and you can subtly influence their behavior. But it has to be the right carrot. It has to matter to the people you’re trying to influence. Just as importantly, it has to influence the correct changes. A few years ago there was a story…
Well, that didn’t take long! A mere two days after Deadpool’s shocking box office success, Fox has begun going all-in on “adult” superhero films. At the New York Toy Fair, the studio announced that it wants the third solo Wolverine movie to also be rated “R.” http://io9.gizmodo.com/deadpool-has-c… This is only the beginning, folks. But the…