We are pleased to announce that Damn Interesting contributor Ben Taylor has just published a shiny new book that is sure to be the first in what we hope will become a long and lustrous book-publishing career. Apocalypse on the Set retells nine true stories of film-making enterprises which have endured calamity, ruin, humiliation, or [...]

As you may have noticed, until about a week ago the Damn Interesting web server was about as sturdy as a pair of paper pajamas. A sustained orgy of traffic was exhausting our finite resources, cramming all of our ports with bits. A superior server remains out of our price range, and even the most [...]

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A foot.We at Damn Interesting are happy to announce that we have officially returned from our spontaneous hiatus. One might describe the sensation as “delighted” if one were prone to fits of gleeful hyperbole. We also bring news: The Damn Interesting book Alien Hand Syndrome is now available at fine bookstores everywhere. Discerning readers may [...]

For the past several weeks, Damn Interesting has been repeatedly violated by a gaggle of Russian hackers. Their strange probes sought out all unprotected orifices of our elderly version of WordPress, and injected each one with a caustic slurry of pharmaceutical links and online casino spam. We erected a brisk and makeshift defense, only to [...]

As the manuscript-delivery deadline approaches for our Damn Interesting book, we must take drastic action to avoid being sucked into a temporal vortex of magnificent and frightful proportions. Consequently, we hope you won’t mind a handful of re-runs while we enter phase three of the book-writing process: Irrational Bargaining. We’ll try to keep you abreast [...]

On 25 January 2007, the Damn Interesting authors boldly– some might say prematurely– announced our intentions to expand our project into the medium of dead tree flesh. We writers are prone to episodes of optimistic whimsy, so we set out on the path of self-publication with fires in our bellies, springs in our steps, and [...]

Lame stock photoOnce again, we here at Damn Interesting are in search of proficient purveyors of intriguing information. But as a bit of a departure from our previous writer-replenishment efforts, we now hope to add a larger number of authors with a considerably smaller commitment per person. See the send-a-sample link for specifics. If you [...]

If you live in the Miami area and you own one of those fancy new AM radio receiver sets, you’re in luck. I’ll be doing a short interview on Sports Talk 790 AM The Ticket today at about 6:15pm Eastern Time. It’s guaranteed to modulate your amplitude. For those lacking in Miami proximity and/or AM [...]

The Damn Interesting writing staff is presently indulging in a much-needed holiday. We will return in one week– on 09 April 2007– with more pasteurized, processed, cheese-flavored brain food. Sometime soon we’ll be reading through the writing samples we’ve received, so if you sent a sample we’ll get back to you. We’re also laboring to [...]