Some exercises to combat “computer back”

Worthless lady is worthless officially

The science of spending your money wisely

Death and, well, you know the rest

Working as an aggregation serf

Image “quality” really doesn’t matter any more (or ever?)

Go read everything at The Billfold

Manjoo: Best Buy’s only hope is to slim down

CSI: Yellowstone

Abe Sauer is tired of Wisconsin politics

Profile of Jonathan Blow, creator of Braid

Having no retirement plan

RIP Isis

What if carpenters wrote about their tools like photographers on forums do

Mitt Romney quantum theory

All this data and no real story

Google is losing our trust

You hate the US Postal Service for no good reason

Abe Sauer: Our gun obsession killed Trayvon Marton

Or maybe give Keynote a chance

Designer-centric improvements in Photoshop CS6

We’re not at war with Islam

Retaking the SAT at age 35

Life in an internet mega warehouse

This American Life retracts Mike Daisey’s account of Chinese factories

You’re not paranoid; They’re listening

“The shape, size and color of a baby eggplant”

Cracked: Six things rich people need to stop saying

Should we kill CAPTCHAs quickly, or quickly and violently?

Your employer-provided health care is yours

How Samoa lost a day

Extreme breakfast tweets

Newsflash: people will read interesting things

The MPAA does not just “advise parents”

Jack the champion Aussie Shepherd tries to mate

Does the penny support our entire economy?

Brainstorming is a myth

100 ways to say “I love you”

Could the NFL disappear?

There are fewer Nielsen watchers than you think

Wall Street should probably stay emasculated

You can marry your adopted adult child; Ohio or Florida?

Maybe your cell phone bill isn’t so bad

Concussions in football

A review of Pitchfork, 1995-present

Technology does not make us happy (probably!)

Maybe watch what you say online, mmm-k?

Our software patent “system”

Stephen Colbert has been on a roll lately

The state of manufacturing in America

The Awl: The evil economics of judging teachers

Vanity Fair: Should we be a spelling vigilante?

The Times appears to be unclear on journalism

Farhad Manjoo: “Google just broke its search engine”

The crisis of leadership

Spencer Hall on alcoholism

Why Best Buy is on the way down

The best thing of 2011

The beginners guide to How I Met Your Mother

The sad, beautiful fact that we’ll all going to miss almost everything

About that “blogger” that lost a defamation suit

A week with The Colbert Report

The Federal Reserve loaned big banks almost 8 trillion dollars

Paypal hates poor people

The upside of embargo dates

The “Popular” page on Pinboard

James Somers writing about work ethic

The 5 best toys of all time

Scott Kelby’s open letter to Adobe Systems on CS6 pricing

What to do when you piss off your garbage collector

Are you still poor if you own a television?

But what about the money we gettin’ up under you?

Jobs are the byproduct of a healthy economy

Wall Street doesn’t play by the same rules

Occupy Wall Street is not left versus right

“Other” fills up your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch

Matt Taibbi: What Occupy Wall Street should focus on

A few more about Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs RIP

Alphabetical jobs and misconceptions

What’s behind the Netflix-Qwikster split?

Charlie’s Angels sounds great

Is Netflix intentionally making its customers furious with the Qwikster spin-off?

The difference between goals and systems

The exposure cuboid?

Zooey Deschanel is just too precious

Michael Moore, the most hated man in America

Mind vs. Machine

Woody Allen Movies ranked by likelihood of being used as the title of a Wu-Tang Clan song

Will Leitch’s interview with Michael Vick

Not news: Chipotle’s pinto beans have bacon

Annoying Dave Chappelle fans ruining it for everyone

Drew Westen on Obama and a failure of narrative

The Onion: Obama Turns 50 Despite Republican Opposition

The night Osama bin Laden was killed

Joe Posnanski on paying college athletes

Digging in to the history of “Happy Birthday To You”

Friday Night Lights’ greatest moments

An oral history of Friday Night Lights

Inserting pointless ads in How I Met Your Mother reruns