Shift Happens tells the story of keyboards like no book ever before, covering 150 years from the early typewriters to the pixellated keyboards in our pockets.
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I just find that people overuse hashtags for everything. When hashtags jump to real life it becomes a problem. #getalife
Well there goes another childhood myth down the toilet. Froot Loops “flavors” taste all the same. It’s all food coloring. You have deceived me for…
Shirtless anti-war protester Frank C. Plada will later die in Vietnam, Happy Veterans Day. Politicians hide themselves away They only started the war Why should…
When you need subtitles on shows where English is the first language of the person in North America, you have to conclude that there are…
Gandhi sends Hitler a letter. A case of forced pen-pals. Hitler never responded back.
Elvis Presley’s earliest signature can be traced to 1948 when he checked out, The Courageous Heart: A Life of Andrew Jackson for Young Readers, from…
This is my year. The year of the snake. Ride the snake, ride the snakeTo the lake, the ancient lake, babyThe snake is long, seven…
It’s the end of the world as we know it. Newsweek goes digital. In all the eighty years Newsweek was published, I never bought a…
Yes there’s an end, but not this time around. This tiny fragile orb we call earth still spins around the sun. We made it. It’s…
Today I had a talk with both of my kids about the Connecticut elementary school massacre. Parents will blame video games and social media sites…
2012 is the year of the end of Bazooka Joe and Twinkies. Bazooka Joe was cheesy at best but a part of many generational youths.…
October 20th marks the birthday of Bela Lugosi. If he were alive he would truly be a white zombie since he was born in 1882.…
In 1966, a persistent 17-year-old (Michael Aisner) with a high school radio show outside Chicago got the interview of a lifetime. He scored Muhammad Ali.…
1000 years of time shifting national borders of Europe.
New York city is on my mind this week as will the rest of the world as we remember 9/11. Denys Wortman’s New York: Portrait…
Ooh la la! The mundane choices of mint and cherry lip balms from the 20th century are eclipsed by the audacious and innovative French Fry Lip Balm.
Street artist Blu has upset a few people with his anti-war mural for the festival “Draw The Line” in Campobasso, Italy. The Controversial Wall Of Brainless Soldiers has caught the attention of the global social network. War is a touchy subject with many countries and the insinuation of brainless individuals in the army is seen as insulting to many with family in the service. War leaves scars for nations and Blu has tapped into a vein that still bleeds.
As you wolf down hot-dogs this year, let us celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Wienermobile. The first Oscar Mayer Wienermobile took to the road…
Christoph Niemann’s new artstic expression with The World Map of Useless Stereotypes. (source)
Art scholars authenticate missing Leonardo da Vinci painting. The painting, Salvator Mundi, or “Savior of the World,” has an uncanny parallel feel of the Mona…
56 years ago Sam and Friends debuted with no fanfare, it was the sandbox that would graduate into Sesame Street and the Muppet Show. Sam…
How are erasers made? The lonely eraser sits on many desks and little is known about the origin of this little device of artists and…
VisuaLoop The iPad has a long history to challenge of written words on paper. Will the iPad make communication better or more controlled by the…
John Lennon was looking for a little love from Paul McCartney. A nasty piece of hatred between John and Linda McCartney. Yoko did not fit…
In parts of North America it is too nippy to even think about a Sundae. Today marks the 119th year of the creation of America’s…