Chait gets the ironies dead to rights: When I attended college just after the height of the political-correctness fad, I was exposed to the exotic but widely accepted theory that racial minorities could not, by definition, be guilty of racism.
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Calculators were the original handheld computers, but unlike the whole PDA fad, they've had amazing staying power through their 40-year history -- to this day, buttoned-up dudes crunching numbers at wooden desks have HP 12Cs next to them not for the kitschy retro street cred, but because they're functional, familiar, and do exactly what they're expected to do.
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A NY Times reporter recently asked me if I have access to research supporting the popular educational model known as the Reading Workshop.
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Dr. Phil has been on a crusade to pathologize gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people with shows about "gender confused children" "experimental bisexuality" and by giving a platform to so called experts on "ex-gay therapy" from Focus on the Family.
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I failed to include a link to my post yesterday on the economic realities staring down straight porn.
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When the L.A. Times writes about the economic hardships of the straight porn world, you know we're fucked.
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It's been a long, strange road for the Core i5 series of processors, first announced way back in March not by Intel, but by a motherboard spec sheet.
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by Chris Bodenner Blog scholar Scott Rosenberg muses over the medium A blog lets you define yourself, whereas on a social network you are more likely to be defined by others.
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So it seems that YouTube has been experimenting with offering 3D videos over the past few days, but we've held off on letting you know just to make sure this wasn't some sort of one-day lab test.
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Last week the Los Angeles Times posted statistics showing that 3D per screen averages have dropped over the last six months, which they took to indicate that audience interest for this new format might be “waning.
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How a Gay Trend Becomes a Mainstream Fad by Stephen J. Lucin Ever since Calvin Klein's men's underwear ads were plastered all over Times Square, in numerous fashion magazines and on television in the 1990s, fashionable men's underwear has taken.
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This right here is a fine example of a celebrity fad, a misguided one but still a fad.
The dress first appeared on Cheryl Burke on May 22nd in Las Vegas.
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Just like your mom keeps telling you, AMD thinks netbooks are a bit of a fad, and is laying down a roadmap for thin-and-lights while keeping its distance from any sort of "Atom killer.
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- Kanye West and Amber Rose are no longer a couple. Gotta admit I like this current fad better than all that Twittering shit.
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Apparently people are really falling hard for this whole "thin" fad, and Gigabyte's design department is the latest victim.
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