In today's New York Times 'Business' section, Douglas Quenqua offers a report about how people are using typos to find big savings on eBay.
Writes Mr. Quenqua:
A handful of new Web sites with names like Typo Bay and Typo Buddy are out to help shoppers save money by searching eBay for misspelled brand names.Two Read More
As you already know, today marks the last day of publication for The New York Sun. But for those of you who will miss the daily paper—or who missed it entirely over the course of its six year lifespan—there's a lot of 12 editions from 2002 for sale on eBay.
According to the Read More
Miracles come in all shapes and sizes, apparently. For the next two or so hours, you can bid on eBay for a piece of toast burned with the image of Sirius Satellite Radio host Howard Stern.
According to the seller's description:
I can't vouch that this is an authentic miracle. I was listening to Howard Read More
At least a hundred brooms and mops hang from the ceiling of what would, under other circumstances, be the living room of Byron and Susan Bell’s 1,500-square-foot 1876 Chelsea townhouse. That room isn’t far from five others full of thousands of baskets, pots, mousetraps, locks, toys, tools and hats—all, by the way, very tidy and Read More
Overlooked in the culture wars, a new phenomenon has been emerging: domesticity without family, or with family lite. I’m thinking of my friends who have elaborate, Martha Stewart–like (though not Martha-inspired) domestic situations, either without husbands, or children, or both. You could call it housewifery by choice. It used to be that women married for Read More
Overlooked in the culture wars, a new phenomenon has been emerging: domesticity without family, or with family lite. I’m thinking of my friends who have elaborate, Martha Stewart–like (though not Martha-inspired) domestic situations, either without husbands, or children, or both. You could call it housewifery by choice.
It used to be that women married for Read More
As Newsweek recently reminded us, sibling dynamics are as important (psychologically, developmentally, etc.) as anything that goes on between a parent and child. The internecine struggle between brothers and sisters—who does best in school, who calls shotgun in the car, who gets the first waffle out of the waffle iron—it’s Darwinism at the breakfast table, Read More
Former dean of Harvard College Harry Lewis loves to quote old documents about the purpose of liberal education and the meaning of intellectual experience. These are very boring phrases, but Mr. Lewis uses them often in Excellence Without a Soul. The phrases mostly appear when Mr. Lewis is excerpting material he’s acquired from the Harvard Read More
Former dean of Harvard College Harry Lewis loves to quote old documents about the purpose of liberal education and the meaning of intellectual experience. These are very boring phrases, but Mr. Lewis uses them often in Excellence Without a Soul.
The phrases mostly appear when Mr. Lewis is excerpting material he’s acquired from the Harvard Read More
I’m under attack. I’m the Typhoid Mary of the art world. In the last few weeks, I’ve been publicly vilified as “a hack” and a “rip-off artist.” It has even been said of me that I am “full of shit.” Charmed, I’m sure! I’m not really surprised. It was inevitable; I could see it coming. Read More
I’m under attack. I’m the Typhoid Mary of the art world. In the last few weeks, I’ve been publicly vilified as “a hack” and a “rip-off artist.” It has even been said of me that I am “full of shit.” Charmed, I’m sure!
I’m not really surprised. It was inevitable; I could see it coming. Read More“If you use anything except an ashtray to put your cigarette out in, I’ll come over there and cut your fingers off, and then you’ll have to smoke with your penis,” she said to me on the phone the next day. I’m sure that’s what she said. I’m sure I couldn’t have misheard. Still: Her Read More
It was the biggest in U.S. history. People gasped when they saw it coming. It was scary. It damn near pulled my arms out of their sockets. I am talking about the world’s first Category 6 goodie bag. In fairness to all concerned, we were given ample warning. Halfway through Allure magazine’s 10th Anniversary Best Read More
Last fall, I wrote a big check at the J. Mendel sample sale and left with a new Russian sable jacket. My emotional state felt vaguely familiar: the initial attraction, the decision to commit, the pure physical pleasure, the brief afterglow … the guilt. Though I knew sample sales could be dangerous, the invitation to Read More
