I make a point to watch Groundhog Day on the titular holiday, and I bet I’m not alone. This year, accentuate your viewing experience with the knowledge that Bill Murray was trying to level up all along. – – – The wiki tvtropes.org features a persuasive argument for Groundhog Day as a videogame. The
Between August 2003 and July 2004, I spent a year living in northern France as an au pair. (Think “The Manny.”) My charges, explosive as C4, were six- and eight-year-old boys born to an American mother and a French father. They enjoyed the usual distractions of youth: bike-riding, judo, threatened d
The story of Gridlee is a kind of dream deferred. Originally programmed for the arcades during the early 1980s heyday of pellet-gobbling and starship-shooting, the game was never officially released. Until now. Available on iOS for free since last week, it’s both a compelling amalgam of classic mech
Jennifer Egan’s book A Visit From the Goon Squad won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Literature. Too bad Egan thinks it could have been better. In a chapter from the upcoming book Why We Write, excerpted on Salon.com, she explains how the public and widespread praise has affected her creative output, go
As far as slogans for industry-conquering multinational corporations go, Google’s “Don’t be evil” ranks pretty high on the list. It’s concise, impactful, unselfish. The informal motta may be withering some, with suggestions that sharing users’ private data is within a stone’s throw of evil-ish behav
