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Gerald Selbee broke the code of the American breakfast cereal industry because he was bored at work one day, because it was a fun mental challenge, because most things at his job were not fun and because he could—because he happened to be the kind of person who saw puzzles all around him, puzzles that other people don’t realize are puzzles: the little ciphers and patterns that float ...
The Huffington Post was launched on May 9, 2005, as a commentary outlet, blog, and an alternative to news aggregators such as the Drudge Report. [20] [21] [4] It was founded by Arianna Huffington, Andrew Breitbart, Kenneth Lerer, and Jonah Peretti. [9]
CONSPIRACY. In the mid-1990s, a boy who loved Sonic the Hedgehog came up with a theory so strange only the Internet could love it. What if he was right? When Ben Mallison was a child in the early 90s in Manchester, England, his favorite video games featured Sonic, a blue hedgehog who wore red-and-white, Michael Jackson-style boots.
Buck Wolf is the managing editor of trends at The Huffington Post, and a former member of the Us Weekly Fashion Police. Wolf writes on film, music and TV, but specializes in offbeat features. His writing has appeared in the Village Voice, the Miami Herald, and New York Newsday, and he's appeared as a guest on Countdown with Keith Olbermann.
Huffington, the former wife of Republican congressman Michael Huffington, co-founded The Huffington Post, which is now owned by BuzzFeed. [ 6 ] [ 1 ] She was a popular conservative commentator in the mid-1990s, after which, in the late 1990s, she offered liberal points of view in public, while remaining involved in business endeavors. [ 7 ]
The women get madder. “We are people that have been left out,” Hochman shouts. One man holding a camera tells her to shut up. Suddenly, some of the women, including Hochman, don crocodile and Mickey Mouse masks. “We are not freaks,” they chant from inside their papier-mache heads. “We are dignified human beings.
They were supposed to. But then, just a few years back, Merle Unger Jr., one of the most notorious escape artists of our time, discovered an ingenious (and legal) way to get them out. It was an unimagined second chance for them—and a nerve-wracking experiment for everyone else. Meet the Ungers. Story By Jason Fagone.
“It was like David and Goliath. There were these little people fighting against this giant,” Chapman said. The bank “really left vulnerable people on their own.” The government’s ultimatum divided the community. The leader of Chapman’s organization said it was the best offer the evicted people were going to get.