It’s less than a week before Christmas and you may have a few (or like me, several) gifts left to purchase. The gift certificates and pre-paid credit cards hanging on the wrack at the grocery store check out lane are looking more tempting with each passing day. “Who doesn’t like scratch-offs and chocolate?” you ask…
Friday Poll: Your Favourite Cultural Plagiarism Scandals
It’s been a newsy kind of week. Power-play harassment isn’t the kind of news we want to have fun with, so this week’s poll is all about plagiaristic reminiscing: literary and artistic Ghosts of Christmas Past. Who made you really angry? Who made you laugh and eat that popcorn? Which of these alleged non-creators made…
Last Minute Gift Guide 2: Stuff and things
Wait, you’re STILL shopping? Girl, I thought we had you covered with that last round of recommendations. Oh, you’re looking for some seeing-you-after-Christmas-so-I-can-be-horrendously-late gifts! Well then. We’ve got you covered with these online buys. Like our last roundup of cool things, we’ve held back on posting prices, due to the internationality of our readership (and…