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Buy: Anna Kendrick

As of now, Anna Kendrick is probably (well, definitely) best-known as that girl from the Twilight movies, you know, that one who doesn’t get a whole lot of screen time and is inexplicably overlooked by all of her male classmates in favor of Kristen Stewart’s listless Bella Swan.
But after December 25, when the funny-sad-smart George [...]

Don’t Buy: Reaction Videos

I looked up “reaction video” on UrbanDictionary:

A video, typically posted on YouTube, that depicts someone’s reaction to seeing or being shown a disturbing or frightening image or video. This is usually a shock site, a screamer or something similar.
This is a really lame concept. It’s the cheap-ass version of Sci Fi’s Scare Tactics: give [...]

Don’t Buy: “Hiding” Pregnant Bellies

2009 hasn’t been a huge year for celebrity babies, at least none on the level of a Shiloh or a Suri. But that doesn’t mean some celebs haven’t been gettin’ huge with babies. If you are even a casual viewer of Gossip Girl or How I Met Your Mother, you are already fully aware [...]

Don’t Buy: Josh Gad

I don’t watch The Daily Show very often, not because I don’t like it but because I just don’t think about it very much.  But now that I’m settling into the life of an Unemployed Recent College Graduate, and now that it’s raining every single damn day, I find myself with little to do but think [...]

Buy: LiveMocha

After multiple tries, my opinion hasn’t changed: Omegle is a failure. But if you are still dying to chat with a stranger from anywhere in the world, and you want to do it in a foreign language, I have the perfect site for you!

Welcome to LiveMocha, the free online language learning site. I’m [...]

Don’t Buy: Omegle

So, there is this new website called Omegle where you can chat with a stranger. I know what you’re thinking: Isn’t that what AOL chatrooms and bars are for?
Well, Omegle offers you a sense of anonymity unmatched by a clever screen name or telling people your name is “Savannah.” You are given no [...]

BODB: David Lynch TV

First: By “David Lynch TV,” I don’t mean Twin Peaks. That would be a definite Buy.
What I do mean is his newly launched website, David Lynch Foundation Television. The David Lynch Foundation was created to promote Transcendental Meditation, which Lynch has been practicing for 35 years, and to provide funding for students to [...]

Buy: Food Friendzy

One of the main problems with Facebook’s actual usefulness as a promotional tool is that most of its applications are really annoying. Yes, I thought it was adorable when my study abroad friend sent me virtual smažený sýr through the Czech Food app, but now it’s merely irritating when every other day I’m notified [...]

Don’t Buy: Newspaper Commercials

Last night as I was eating mac & cheese and eagerly awaiting the return of Gossip Girl*, I settled on Jeopardy! for my pre-GG entertainment. Generally I think of Jeopardy! as a great place for Old People commercials. Since the only people still reading actual newspapers are old, this still holds. But [...]

Buy: Snow

I don’t care if it blocks the roads. I don’t care if it makes everything icy. I don’t care if my boyfriend “unintentionally” hits me in the ear with a snowball. I LOVE SNOW!!! It’s PRETTY!!!!!!

Yeah. I’m prettttttty sure I just blew your mind.