Brian Sutorius
Illustration by Bryan Christie Design This is a story not about Amtrak but about trains, and the problem with any story about trains in America is that you often find yourself thinking about Amtrak, and you often find yourself thinking about how nice it would be if you weren’t thinking about Amtrak.…
Alex Roy has a crazy dream: to beat the legendary Cannonball Run record by crossing the country in under 32 hours and 7 minutes. Floor it! Photo: Brian Finke And so the clock starts and the taillights flare, and they're off again, strapped down, fueled up, and bound on an outlaw enterprise with…
Conceptual Comedy Galifianakis at the Bamboozle music festival at the Meadowlands. Andreanna Seymore for The New York Times On a blustery Wednesday night this past December, the newly opened TriBeCa branch of New York’s 92nd Street Y was host to a stand-up comedy show, but you’d never have guessed…
After examining some 300,000 Twitter accounts, a Harvard Business School professor reported last week that 10 percent of the service's users account for more than 90 percent of tweets. The study dovetails with recent analysis by the media research firm Nielsen asserting that 60 percent of Twitter…
by Scott Boms May 26, 2009 Published in State of the Web ·
Web professionals are often expected to be “always on”—always working, absorbing information, and honing new skills. Unless our work and personal lives are carefully balanced, however, the physical and mental effects of an “always on” life…
When your hobby is baiting 419 scammers (also known as Nigerian scammers or advance-fee fraudsters), a death threat isn't cause for concern—it's a trophy worth bragging about to your friends. Scam baiters are the vigilante enforcers who come together to waste hours, weeks, or months of 419 scammers'…
The Georgia Guidestones may be the most enigmatic monument in the US: huge slabs of granite, inscribed with directions for rebuilding civilization after the apocalypse. Only one man knows who created them—and he's not talking. Photo: Dan Winters The strangest monument in America looms over a barren…
Mark Seliger WARNING : SPOILERS AHEAD!!! This essay ends with cheating. Specifically, my friend Greg and I, after playing a particular videogame for 11 hours straight, are stuck. We call a fellow gamer to learn what moves we need to make to get to the next level. With the new information in hand, we…
The four bare hooks on the Louvre wall that once held the Mona Lisa. From the Mary Evans Picture Library/The Image Works. Excerpted from The Crimes of Paris: A True Story of Murder, Theft, and Detection , by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler, to be published this month by Little, Brown and Company; © 2009…
American excess: A Wall Street trader tells all American excess: A Wall Street trader tells all 1/3 EPA 2/3 Teri Pengilley 3/3 I’d been working for the bank for about five weeks when I woke up on the balcony of a ski resort in the Swiss Alps. It was midnight and I was drunk. One of my fellow…
YouTube's losses are unsustainable Everyone knows that print newspapers are our generation's horse-and-buggy; in the most wired cities, they've been pummeled by competition from the Web. But it might surprise you to learn that one of the largest and most-celebrated new -media ventures is burning…
Medics tend to the wounded in the wake of the massacre. Photograph: Rodolfo Gonzalez/Associated Press E xactly 10 years ago on Monday, the world woke up to learn that two more unhinged American teenage misfits had snapped after years of bullying at the hands of the "jocks", the sporting overlords of…
Some 25 years have passed since the publication of Paul Fussell’s naughty treat Class: A Guide Through the American Status System, and I think this quarter-century mark merits the raising of either a yachting pennant, an American flag, or a wind sock with the Budweiser logo (corresponding to…
Do you know someone who needs hours alone every day? Who loves quiet conversations about feelings or ideas, and can give a dynamite presentation to a big audience, but seems awkward in groups and maladroit at small talk? Who has to be dragged to parties and then needs the rest of the day to…
This unbelievably long article is related to (but not necessarily about ) a discussion that I and several other people have been participating in online over the past few days. It's about (and not about) the increasingly popular practice of re-publishing someone's online work on another site without…
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1/4 Getty 2/4 Getty 3/4 Getty 4/4 Getty The wide, smiling face of Sheikh Mohammed – the absolute ruler of Dubai – beams down on his creation. His image is displayed on every other building, sandwiched between the more familiar corporate rictuses of Ronald McDonald and Colonel Sanders. This man has…
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In the late 1800s, the Brooklyn Bridge was built with no power tools, no heavy machinery, and only a basic, evolving understanding of how to make steel. It’s not these facts, but the stories surrounding the facts that inspire me when I take a good, long stare at a suspension bridge. But first……
31.89. In terms of the game's hallowed numbers, it doesn't quite resonate like, let's say, 50.4 -- Wilt Chamberlain's historic scoring average in 1961-62 -- or Oscar Robertson's 30-12-11 triple-double that same season. But it's a big one at Hollinger HQ, anyway. That 31.89 mark is Michael Jordan's…
The scene of the crime: The Diamond District, Antwerp, Belgium. Nick Waplington Leonardo Notarbartolo strolls into the prison visiting room trailing a guard as if the guy were his personal assistant. The other convicts in this eastern Belgian prison turn to look. Notarbartolo nods and smiles…
Fatal Distraction: Forgetting a Child in the Backseat of a Car Is a Horrifying Mistake. Is It a Crime? By Gene Weingarten Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, March 8, 2009;W08 The defendant was an immense man, well over 300 pounds, but in the gravity of his sorrow and shame he seemed larger still.…
Wallace worried that he had been driven by a “basically vapid urge to be avant-garde . . . and linguistically calisthenic.” Credit Illustration by Philip Burke The writer David Foster Wallace committed suicide on September 12th of last year. His wife, Karen Green, came home to find that he had…
During the 1960s, a dirty, loaded word came into currency: Mafia. It signified one of the most terrifying forces on earth, the Italian-American faction of organized crime, and naturally the men who headed this force wanted to keep the word from being spoken, if not obliterate it altogether. When it…
You know that charming little cafe on New York's Lower East Side that just closed after a mere six months in business—where coffee was served on silver trays with a glass of water and a little chocolate cookie? The one that, as you calmly and correctly observed, was doomed from its inception because…
17 WTF Moments From the Vice Presidential Debate Tuesday evening's debate was dad-on-dad, Midwesterner-on-Midwesterner, Catholic-on-Catholic Tim Kaine on Trump at VP Debate: 'He Is Showing You Who He Is' Discussion of religious beliefs, the death penalty and abortion came up in final moments of…
At our desk, on the road, or on a remote beach, the world is a tap away. It's so cool. And yet it's not. what we lose with our constant connectedness. (Full article: 3347 words) This article is available in our archives: Globe Subscribers FREE for subscribers Subscribers to the Boston Globe get…
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