The 2016 Overthinking It Holiday Gift Guide
Our gift guide for 2016, with great holiday gift recommendations from your friends at Overthinking It and a chance to support the site you love.
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The 2015 Overthinking It Holiday Gift Guide
Our gift guide for 2015, with great holiday gift ideas from your friends at Overthinking It and a chance to support the site you love. Yours for the giving. Or the taking.
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Cultural Sensitivity McFail
How is a fast food restaurant like a tree? Beats me.
Tommy, Can You See Moesha?
A look at the Tommy Westphall Hypothesis.
Surprise! A. O. Scott Likes Rambo. And So Should You.
Movie critic A. O. Scott has what appears to be a new series of retrospective video reviews of his favorite movies on the New York Times website, and much to my surprise, his latest entry is an independent art film … Continued
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The Internet is No Longer For Porn
“Surfing for porn had dropped to about 10 percent of searches from 20 percent a decade ago,” according to Bill Tancer, a researcher at Hitwise, quoted in a Reuters story, “and the hottest Internet searches now are for social networking … Continued
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How Do You Pronounce Charlize Theron? and Other Mysteries
For the record: Amanpour, Christiane (kris-tə-YAN ä-MÄN-pür) Auel, Jean (OUL) Baum, L. Frank (BOM) Blanchett, Cate (KĀT BLAN-chət) Buscemi, Steve (boo-SHEM-ē) Clowes, Daniel (KLŌZ) Coelho, Paulo (POU-lō KOO-ĀL-yoo) Derrida, Jacques (zhäk dâr-ē-DÄ) Fiennes, Ralph (RĀF FĪNZ) Foer, Jonathan Safran (FÔR) … Continued
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The Word Cloud Conspiracy
One of my many vices is political blogs. I read a whole slew of them, several times a day (and lord help me, I even read the comments). I especially enjoy reading the progressive DailyKos, and the staunchly conservative RedState, … Continued
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What Are the Two Most Awesome Things Ever?
Heath Ledger’s Joker and Will Smith’s Fresh Prince. Obvi.
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Kitty!
I got to this from the Onion AV Club’s “videocracy” feature, which tracks the most popular videos on the intertubes. This means that the odds of any of you not having already seen this are, to say the least, slim. … Continued
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