So it took me a while to figure out which films and shorts I wanted to see at the SF Int'l Asian American Film Fest. Part of the reason is because I've been feeling lazy. But part of it is because their freaking web…

I like Zara, but I'm always annoyed that they run out of sizes so fast. Well, here's the reason: Stores are stocked with new designs twice a week. Collections are small and often sell out, creating an air of exclusiv…

U.S. Customs officers are confiscating and search laptops and cellphones: Nabila Mango... a U.S. citizen who has lived in the country since 1965, had just flown in from Jordan last December when, she said, she was de…

Long time ago, before the 1970s, you were only allowed to rent telephones from Western Electric, a subsidiary of the old AT&T monopoly. Any third party phone manufacturer had to transfer their phones to AT&T, …

From the company that did this: The Skytyping process utilizes five airplanes that fly abreast, 250-feet apart and "type" up to 30 character messages in a dot-matrix-like pattern. When Skytyping, the airplanes create…