We looked forward to the promise of video phone calls for fifty years, but now that they are here, no one wants to actually use them. Joel Stein captures the exact reason why video phone calls never caught on, despite the availability of Skype.On the Ski Slopes With Avalanche Patrollers. This occupation combines recreation, sport, saving lives, and risking your own -and leaves you plenty of stories to tell.
It Beats Rocks and Tear Gas. A serious look at the history and political meaning of streaking. (via Metafilter)
Use Better Tools to Be a Better Student in 2010. A college professor has tips on using your computer to make your life and classwork easier.
You may have stumbled across references to Lukeywes1234 over the past few days. Salon has the short version of how a YouTube kid became 4chan's latest excuse for mischief on the internet.
Movie critic Roger Ebert can no longer eat or drink. He reminisces about tastes in a way that makes you want to savor every bite for the rest of your life.
Breaking up is hard to do, especially when your love life is shared with everyone via social networking. And who gets custody of shared passwords? (via Laughing Squid)
A Yemeni memoir, from bikinis to burkas. How one family went from cosmopolitan to fundamentalist as the culture changed around them. (via Metafilter)
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