Each Friday, we bring you look at some of the interesting news we’ve seen recently around the office. Today we’ve got stories of a stolen bike, a second chance, an inside look at SNL and more in this Miley-free edition of the HodgePodge. What the bleep are you talking about? The Verge takes a long look into the history of the bleep, from Congress drafting the first amendment to Arrested Development and others using it for comic effect. Be warned, though: there’s some rough bleeping…
Read MoreFrom an epic true tale to your favorite movie posters and all the cups of coffee in between, this is your weekly dose of stories we’ve enjoyed recently. Going commando The Mercenary is not only an impressive look into the incredible life of a self-styled commando, it’s the debut of a new attempt to give longform journalism a first-class home on the web. Do you brew? I’ve always wondered how to make perfect cup of coffee. Now that I know, I think I’ll stick with…
Read MoreA jury doesn’t understand computer programming, a pot head doesn’t understand social media, teetotalers misunderstand soda and more in this premature fall edition of HodgePodge. You can’t take it with you A cracker-jack programmer took a project he was working on with him when he left Goldman Sachs and ended up with an eight-year prison sentence. But did the people who convicted him even understand what he’d done? Michael Lewis (of Moneyball and Blind Side fame) takes a look at the case in Vanity Fair….
Read MoreA long time ago, in a galaxy far away, there was a new edition of the HodgePodge—a round-up of the most interesting things we’ve read this week. Fortunately there’s also an edition in this galaxy right now. Nothing but Internet Lots of people have had lots to say about the big news just up I-95 that Internet-bajillionaire Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post, but perhaps most interesting among all the articles was this open letter from Kara Swisher from the Wall Street Journal’s AllThingsD. Cool…
Read MoreWelcome to another episode of HodgePodge, brought to you from our brick enclosed nerve center in Shockoe Bottom. Fish do it all the time What would happen if everyone peed in the ocean at the same time? Spoiler alert: not much. If those kinds of calculations interest you though, you’ll probably like the XKCD What If? blog. Would that be semi-hydrophobic? Sorry to disappoint the entire Internet, but Slate says NeverWet isn’t everything it’s cracked up to be. Bookish people The Atlantic asked a bunch…
Read MoreHere’s your weekly list of links to stories we found interesting. Guaranteed 100% free of royal babies and Carlos Danger. Putting your MS Paint skills to shame Sometimes people surprise you by using a piece of technology in a way it was never intended to be used. But 97-year-old Hal Lasko is using Microsoft Paint exactly how it was meant. He just does it a lot better than you or me. Boys to Men In What the Backstreet Boys Could Learn From K-Pop, the Atlantic’s…
Read MoreHappy birthday, Benedict Cumberbatch! When’s the new season of Sherlock? Anyway, as a present, here’s some interesting stories we’ve seen or heard this week. I guess they don’t have mail-carrier unions in Wisconsin This might just be the ultimate summer job. Teens in Lake Geneva, Wis. deliver mail to the waterfront community by boat. It would take too long for the boat to stop at each dock, so the teens must jump, deliver mail into mailboxes and then jump back on board … at least…
Read MoreTropical Storm Chantal called and said you might need some things to read this weekend, so here’s some interesting things we’ve read this week. Good Matt Hunting If you want to feel like you’re having a beer with Matt Damon (and, really, who doesn’t?), Esquire has all the info you’d need in its latest cover story. The full article will run you $0.99 if you’re not a subscriber. Up Down B-A Start The worst video game ever created is a real-time simulation of a boring…
Read MoreHere’s a brief look at some interesting stories we’ve read this week, delivered a couple days early because of Independence Day. We call it HodgePodge. Social Landscaping Just when you were thinking perhaps social marketing was maybe getting simpler, Mashable has the details on the latest “Conversation Prism” (or, as Jon calls it, the social media peacock chart) from industry analyst Brian Solis. That’s a lot of logos. Make Money. Live Better. For the second year, Walmart is holding a contest that offers entrepreneurs a…
Read MoreA big part of our jobs as diligent and dedicated PR people is to read a lot of news, from pop culture to politics and everything in-between. We thought it would be fun to share some of those stories here on the blog. Here’s a sampling of what we’ve been reading this week: SCOTUS Run If you thought your internship was tough, let’s take a moment to think about the broadcast interns up in D.C. on days like Wednesday. Following major Supreme Court rulings, interns…
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