The Hackensack

About a month ago, I contacted one of the founders of Kickstarter about using it to raise funds for a due diligence trip to Alloy Steel Int...

Thursday afternoon, while working on my laptop at a local Starbucks, I ended up having a conversation with a couple nearby. It turned out th...

Ben Stein's documentary Expelled , about the censuring of scientists who speculate about intelligent design, was on cable this weekend. ...

Hat tip to Cheryl for this article from NJ.com about how Craig Shelton, the chef/owner 1 of what was once New Jersey's most expensive ...

Yahoo! Sports reports that Elizabeth Lambert, star of the clip in this post, "Girl's soccer gets rough" , was interviewed by t...

There's a spirited discussion on Ta-Nehisi Coates's Atlantic blog about Aaron Renn's essay The White City , and Renn himself s...

Star Trek II condensed into a 90 second Italian opera, via Robot Chicken . Incidentally, the first time I searched for this, I couldn't ...

A comment on Fred Wilson's blog about Jim Carroll's recent passing reminded me of the Cult song that was featured on the film vers...

We met family friends for dinner last night at a historic dive in SoHo called The Ear Inn (pictured above 1 ). Last week, I had seen a Guar...

Hat tip to a commenter on Ta-Nehisi Coates's Atlantic blog for bringing this to my attention. Here's the six minute short Neil Blom...

We saw this movie earlier tonight and I highly recommend it. It was the best movie I've seen in a while. I was going to post a trailer f...

From venture capitalist Fred Wilson's blog : Books For Entrepreneurs Last week an entrepreneur named Stephen who reads this blog regular...

I have been too harsh in a few recent posts. Specifically: - "How to Promote an Online Business" : I was a little too sharp with ...

In the previous post I mentioned the show Robot Chicken . These are two of the funnier clips I've seen on the show. Don't watch if y...

In his market commentary today, Dr. Hussman mentions he has re-established his "anti-hedge" of index call options comprising 1% o...

Last week, fishermen found the body of a two year old infant in a plastic bag in the Passaic River. It turns out that this body was disinter...

Cheryl picked this up from Barnes & Noble today: Clever idea by this Grahame-Smith fellow. I bet it's much easier to add zombies and...

An article earlier this week in the Record of Northern NJ ( "Stupidity on Wheels" ) mentioned that Bergen County police pulled ov...

The Styles section of Sunday's New York Times featured an article about Unithrive , an organization founded by the three Harvard alumni...

The National Puerto Rican Day Parade is taking place today in New York City. A few years ago, we headed into Manhattan on a Sunday without ...