The origins of "meh" are murky, but the term grew in popularity after being used in a 2001 episode of "The Simpsons" in which Homer suggests a day trip to his children Bart and Lisa. More →

Tea has been an American tradition since the British colonials but Sweet Tea has a southern tradition born in the nineteenth century. The oldest sweet tea recipe in print comes from a community cookbook called Housekeeping in Old Virginia , by Marion Cabell Tyree, published in 1879. However, it is known that recipes and traditions preceded this publication by several decades. Sweet Tea grew in popularity with it's public introduction at the 1904 World's Fair. Today Sweet Tea is undoubtedly sill popular wherever it is available. In 1999, Americans drank 50 billion servings of tea, that's about half the population consuming a cup or glass every day. Eighty-five percent of that tea was iced. More →

Has the hipster killed cool in New York? Did it die the day Wes Anderson proved too precious for his own good, or was it when Chlo Sevigny fellated Vincent Gallo onscreen? Did it vanish along with Kokies, International Bar and Tonic? Or when McSweeneys moved shop to San Francisco and Bright Eyes signed a lease on the Lower East Side? Was it possible to be a hipster once a band that played Northsix one night was heard the next day on NPRs Weekend Edition? Did it hurt to have American Apparel marketing soft-porn style to young bankers? Was something lost the day Ecstasy made the cover of the Times Magazine? Or was it the day Bloomberg banned smoking in bars? And how many times an hour could one check e-mail and still have an honest, or even ironic, claim on being cool? More →

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ZAVENTEM, Belgium (AP) -- Thirteen dots looked just right to designer Ronane Hoet. Together they had the perfect balance to form a stylized "b" for the new Belgian carrier Brussels Airlines and the number also matched the airline's destinations in Africa, a key market. "It was harmony," she said, wistfully. More →

We are well-liked by Black people so we're psyched (since lots of Black people don't like lots of White people)!! We thought it'd be cool to honor our exceptional status with a ROCKIN' domain name and a killer website!! More →