Urban Honking

One of the highlights of being featured on the TODAY Show and being mentioned in The Atlantic and WIRED has been getting an unfiltered critique of KmikeyM. While many people have advised us to ignore the comment sections of various websites we highly value the critical feedback and actively enjoy engaging with those willing to [...]

As part of the K5M Research Lab we have met on regular occasions with Shareholder Marcus Estes for what we called the “Imaginary Software Club” where we’d spec out ideas for various applications and games together. One of these ideas was based on our early adoption of the Nike Fuel Band. We enjoyed earning “fuel” [...]

You certainly didn’t hear it here first: today NASA, at a press briefing, announced that minerals analyzed by the Curiosity rover indicate that life might, in the galactic past, have survived on Mars. The rover’s been poking around an ancient network of stream channels descending from the rim of Gale crater since September of last year; now,…

Writing for the Internet is like yelling into the void: freeing, probably more than a little cathartic, but ultimately lonely. That’s not to say that I haven’t made profound connections out here, but like most writers I long for a little thing with my name on it that fits in the hand, that can be…

What is distance? There’s the distance between people, who subconsciously space themselves apart, providing a reliable visual matrix of intimacy. It’s no coincidence we use the word “close” to describe our most intimate relationships: to whisper and caress, we draw near to one another, less than six inches apart. For chatter amongst personal friends, the…

KmikeyM has demonstrated commendable commitment to health and wellness over the last two years, along the way implementing a rigorous exercise regimen and eliminating essentially all “junk food”. The Juice & Salad focus of early 2012 facilitated dramatic changes to KmikeyM’s appearance. Post Juice & Salad, we’ve continued our focus on healthy eating to maintain [...]

As we work with Shareholder #168 on making improvements to the KmikeyM.com exchange we have an opportunity to reduce the friction of adding funds to your account. Currently we utilize PayPal and must manually transfer each deposit into a shareholder’s account. This process takes time and costs the shareholder $0.30 + 2.9% of the amount [...]

Fuck LA Fitness. I was a happy and proud member of LA Fitness for over a year. Recently I decided to stop my weekly personal training sessions. It’s been almost a month of telling me the one person who could take care of it is out, will call me back, will send me a form, [...]

Before the invention of computer flight simulators, engineers at NASA needed a way to help astronauts visualize landing on the moon. So they built LOLA, or Lunar Orbit and Landing Approach, at Langley Space Center: a system of massive glowing murals and scale model-orbs criss-crossed with ribbons of track. In total darkness, pilots would ride…

The cultural critic Walter Benjamin, in his seminal 1936 essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, argued that the “aura” of a work of art, that sense of special awe and reverence we feel, being in its presence, isn’t inherent to art itself. Rather, it’s a side-effect of its exclusivity, restricted…