The bad news is I haven’t been posting on Bittel Me This very much over the last few months. The good news is I’ve had some other irons in the fire. Hold on to your butts for the first ever Bittel Me Elsewhere Roundup!  So, I accepted a position with Slate.com’s tech blog, Future Tense. [...]

The Leather Jacket You Don’t Want to Own In 11th grade, we were assigned to write a persuasive paper on a topic of our choosing. I decided to write about the dangers of tanning, mostly to persuade my girlfriend of the time to stop doing it.

For All the Kiddos Out There When American forces commando-ed into Pakistan and put a bullet in Public Enemy #1 last May, I read an interesting thing. Following the announcement, internet search traffic shot up 10,000%. Ok, not so surprising. But of those searches, many were this question: “Who is Osama Bin Laden?” 66% of [...]

Turns Out, Yes! Ok, obviously I’m not telling you to do that. I will take no responsibility when you eat said silica packets and choke on the wrapper. I will take no responsibility when they stop up your stool production. And I will take no responsibility when you turn out to be the .01% of [...]