Drive through Woodinville, Washington today, and it has the glimmer of an Eastside Seattle suburb about to be born. With its Target, Safeway, and housing developments with names cooked up by marketing departments, Woodinville is fairly unremarkable, a place you’ve seen a million times before. A scant 20 minute drive from Seattle center, via...
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I picked up Octopussy, by Ian Fleming, sometime in the 1970s at the small-town public library where I grew up. It was for sale, and I think cost something...
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I’ve only had high tea a handful of times, as I’m not much of a tea-drinker. But high tea at a grand hotel is something entirely different. It’s not...
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Recently I got a marketing e-mail from a site called BeautifulPeople.com, which purports to admit only “beautiful people.” The e-mail was accompanied by a video of a quite homely...
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In all their glorious beauty, well over a century of Popular Science and Popular Mechanics covers. And all the pages following the covers, too. It always seemed like the...
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Harry Parke, born Harry Einstein in 1904, was a comedian, and by the 1950s was resting on the laurels of his invented persona, a Greek named Parkyakarkus. This fictive...
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Want to make all the other kids jealous at the next summer music festival? Ditch your Coleman Elite for something far cooler–a tent modeled in the shape and size...
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