Chad of All Things

Life is full of things we take for granted and, often, we don’t realize how much we need and rely upon them until they disappear. Thousands of people got a dose of harsh reality on April 9th when vandals sabotaged AT&T telephone cables in the Silicon Valley. Yes, that’s right: vandals and sabotage. Apparently, whoever [...]

Let me just preface this post by saying I have the utmost sympathy for what Natasha Richardson’s family must be going through and I mean no disrespect. That said… Am I the only one that views the media coverage of Richardson’s ailment as a bit like Schrödinger’s cat? We never seem completely sure of whether [...]

After 146 years of continuous, daily publication, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, more commonly known as the P-I, will print its last paper edition tonight for distribution on Tuesday. This is likely the first of many conversions from old- to new-media as newspapers across the country (and likely world-wide) discover that most people are getting their news [...]

I’m appalled – and angry. Not just that Proposition 8 passed, but that it even exists in the first place. Have we really not progressed enough as a society that we still have to attempt to force our own moral opinions and values on others? When will we, as a society, fully embrace that people [...]

Jonathan Jarvis, a designer in Los Angeles, created this fantastic animation, titled “The Crisis of Credit Visualized,” that describes the credit crisis in easy-to-understand terms.

The recent announcement that an arrest warrant has been issued in the Chandra Levy murder investigation seems to finally put punctuation on one of the most bungled police investigations in recent memory. For those that don’t remember, Chandra Levy was an intern at the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Washington, D.C., when she disappeared in [...]