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Cover Up Your Boobs in a New Way

Hamilton Nolan · 05/06/10 04:01PM

Do you love to have your boobs almost hanging out, but not at work? Why not buy this product, "Cami Secret?" It's basically a napkin you put under your sweater to cover your boobs. What next, flying cars? [Adrants]

Should Fake Pirates and Real Teenagers All Be in Prison?

Hamilton Nolan · 03/24/10 02:52PM

The Way We Live Now: Weighing our options. Unwisely. Americans were never famous for our ability to make calm, sober choices. A recession is just an excuse to become a pirate! Or ask for donations! Or break outta jail!

Luke Russert Disproving Those Nepotism Charges One Story at a Time

Hamilton Nolan · 02/10/10 02:16PM

In your blizzardy Wednesday media column: Luke Russert does it the Luke Russert way, the NYT has no iPad comment, a new journalism moneymaking scheme, and David Remnick acts so haughty you'd think he runs America's best magazine or something.

Yoga For Haiti (Updated)

Hamilton Nolan · 02/08/10 02:08PM

I guess several yoga mats could be combined into some sort of...nah, no idea. We've contacted the yoga studio for comment. Donate now, you selfish bastard. [via James Fallows] UPDATE: A nice lady from the yoga studio explains, below.

How Can We Lose Some Weight?

Hamilton Nolan · 10/06/09 10:45AM

We as Americans are not in the shape we once (1942) were. Is it possible to "lose" the accumulated weight of decades of Cap'n Crunch, Nestle Quik, and Quarter Pounders? America's willing to give it a shot. With crazy schemes.