Is Greater Than is nearly a year old, and to celebrate, we’re about to launch a major upgrade with tons of new features.
To make sure the transition goes smoothly, we have to go incognito for a while. We’ll be back on Wednesday, October 8th with a slew of new features alongside all the great content you’ve […]

Shacka nar test post brah!

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You may notice some additional posts this weekend as we begin adding a new feature to the site, syndicated headline feeds from some of our favorite online news sources. these will link to the original site, not Is Greater than. We’re working on a way to differentiate syndicated articles from native articles, as well as […]

Dunno quite what the intention is here, but the Obama campaign certainly seems to be the courting continued accusations of “elitism” by the mouth-breathing body politic by releasing this iPhone app. If they had a heyday with Obama’s enthusiasm for arugula, imagine what will happen once the Republicans tear into Obama’s support for Apple’s tool […]

Creative Loafing publisher Ben Eason, who purchased the Chicago Reader and Washington City Paper last year, outlined his plan to salvage the company in light of this week’s declaration of bankruptcy. As per usual, his strategy is to lean increasingly on the web, which tends to be the strategy of all publishers of faltering print […]

NEWS FLASH! This glimpse at the top five searched keywords that have driven traffic to sister site Is Greater Than is a bit dispiriting, considering how unrepresentative of the site’s general content it is—then again, it isn’t in the slightest bit surprising. What keywords are driving the traffic to the site? Suicide Girl Twinkie Chan, […]

The Silver Jews’ David Berman returns to the stage with renewed vigor

GNU Founder Richard Stallman, a long-time advocate of free software, denounces cloud computing a la Google’s online services or Apple’s Mobile Me, in which your personal data is stored remotely by service providers. In an interview with the Guardian UK, he warns that users are surrendering their data to closed systems that threaten to lock […]

As the economy continues to plummet and we all eagerly anticipate our new careers harvesting corn for our new Chinese overlords, I find myself continuing to want to spend nonexistent money on unnecessary consumer items. This is why I no longer have a usable credit card, thanksfully. Apparently this giant Lego Chess Set, which was […]

Why the success of Jonathan Coulton is absolutely irrelevant to the music business

Not to mock the clearly disabled, but from what Bondage Faerie-obsessed late-night goth party hell was this spawned? So clearly unfortunate, so clearly ill-advised, so heart-achingly unnecessary, this chills me to the bone. via