QUIZ: Which independent Brooklyn bookstore are you?
Hardcopy books are becoming as obsolete as photo calendars these days, but our love for them is still rock steady. Nothing compares to opening a…
Category: Time-sucking amusement
Avoid work, invoke Ilana and Abby-isms with the Broad City season 2 soundboard
It's Tuesday, which means with any luck you're procrastinating all your obligations until later in the work week. Well, kids,…
Lena Dunham (impersonator) auditions for ‘Zero Dark Thirty’
Brooklyn Heights resident and famous naked person Lena Dunham has been really, really busy lately. She's got her television show,…
Brooklyn crime map is a wonderful time wasting device
If you're one of the people who have been saying that you're eagerly awaiting a new crime spree to hit…
‘I saw you…there!’ Pinpoint your missed connection with Craigslist’s map feature
Ah, the Craigslist missed connection. Excellent time waster, last bastion of the socially awkward and the delusional. For as long…
How to have the perfect ‘Girls’ viewing party
Cosmopolitan recently threw together a few recipes to have, in their words, "the ultimate Girls viewing party." That's all well and…
Gaze into the future of your job, if you dare
Have you checked out the Future-Jobs-O-Matic over at Marketplace yet? No, it doesn't generate future jobs like we thought (bummer,…
Comic books, the Craigslist of the 70s
What did people do before Craigslist, when you had to wander the dark streets looking at "for rent" signs or…
Oscar noms you can rent on Netflix
With the Oscar nominations announced this morning, and just over a month until the big show itself, that leaves little…
Scenes from a Connect Four slaughter-fest
The World Series is at 3-2. Brett Favre just beat his old teammates on their home turf. And last night,…