Don’t be a Dick…unless you’ve got his watch
On January 13, 1946, Chester Gould gave Dick Tracy a two-way wrist radio and adolescent boys across the country became transfixed with the idea of miniature portable communication devices. In 1964,...
View ArticleDitch the Electrical Umbilical
My wife and I ordered a new corner TV cabinet a few weeks back to replace the particleboard Walmart number we’d purchased after moving in together five years ago. Eager to ditch the college-quality...
View ArticleDiseased to Meet You: Six Badass-Sounding Conditions You Probably Don’t Want
Reading the discomforting announcement that the first case of Mad Cow Disease in six years has just reared its large, cud-chewing head in a dairy cow in central California, I was reminded of the...
View ArticleWebsites that Sound Like Other Things
When creating a new online presence, it’s important to choose a name that’s both memorable and at least vaguely emblematic of your site’s intended purpose. This usually means following one of two broad...
View ArticleWhy Does a Nosy Computer Want to Ruin My Marriage?
There are many things about the corporate world that I’m forced to inhabit during normal business hours that regularly perplex and frighten me — for example, the tendency of its residents to use...
View ArticleEulogy for a website
We get spam! Hi Brutishandshort.Com Team, I thought you might like to know some of the reasons why you are not getting enough organic & social media traffic on your website. I would like to update...
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