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

A reasoned counterargument to Netflix raising prices

Why “Kind of Bloop” is not fair use

Rands on keeping employees from getting bored

Paul Ford on in-vetro fertilization

The world record hammer throw

The Hairpin: Taglines for romantic comedies that will never exist

Luminous Landscape reviews the Sony NEX C3

One more on Kind of Bloop

Kind of Bloop

The humblebrag hall of fame

“Writing cannot be taught, though it can be learned”

Names for your action screenplay

Dan Harmon breaks down season 2 of Community

Maybe Stetson® regrets sending that letter

You are not David Foster Wallace so stop it with the footnotes

iTunes Match looks hot

Tommy Craggs on why Grantland Rice sucked

And spung. You also get sprung.

More on the Fuji X100

He’ll die instead of me. We’ve got to take care of him

The Challenger crew didn’t die until they hit the water

The Onion: Quick-Lube Shop Masters Electronic Record Keeping Six Years Before Medical Industry

Let me save you $3,320 on gear

A novel punishment for NFL owners

The history of the Defense of Marriage Act

Bill Simmons on the NFL Labor disputes

Ken Jennings is running an “Ask Me Anything” on Reddit

Ke$ha’s SAT score: 1500

NPR letter-writers are the stodgiest, whiniest, most self-importantly insufferable snobs of all time

The problem with performance reviews

Scott Adams on Charlie Sheen

The Onion: World War II Hero Cursed Out For Driving The Speed Limit

Matt Taibbi on the revolving door between Wall Street and the SEC

Mark Harris on the death of good, dramatic movies