If you build or use anything that "looks up a VIN," you will eventually meet the same user expectation: one box, one button, and a full story of the car - accidents, odometer, flood, theft, and whether it was ever a salvage auction unit. That expectation is wrong in a useful way. A free VIN decode…
"Sports always had a starch to it where the gatekeepers didn't allow a lot of what we provided. We changed the industry in many ways, and I don't know if we get the proper respect for it." The post Why Mike Ryan Ruiz Believes The Dan Le Batard Show Still Has More Stories to Tell appeared first on…
In a World of Ready-Made Fiction, Truth Requires Work During a summer BBQ weekend, a progressive peace activist friend and I were having a very casual conversation when she expressed doubts about whether humans had really landed on the moon.… David Andersson
Visitors walking through Cartagena’s Historic Center often stop to admire its wooden balconies, colorful facades, churches and walls. However, smaller details are also part of the city’s architectural identity, including the door knockers that remain installed on the doors of some historic homes.…
I had learned to hate the sentence, “That won't work.” Not because people were always wrong, but because sometimes they were making a decision about an idea they hadn't actually seen. So this time I didn't ask anyone. I took the concept into Greta and built a rough version over the weekend. Monday…
The prolific memory-exploring dreamweaver DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ probably doesn't use too much vinyl, so Andrew Garfield might have some feelings about her decision to use the term "DJ" twice in her name. But there's nobody else who conjures so much feeling out of recombining obscure records and…
“Deficits don’t matter.” So said then-Vice President Dick Cheney during a high-level budget meeting in late 2002, after Republicans performed surprisingly well during that fall’s midterm elections. Voters, shocked by the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, helped the Republican Party gain seats in…