Danny Sullivan’s Blog

Mad About You – The “Giblets for Murray” Thanksgiving Day episode

November 20, 2022 by Danny Sullivan

One of our favorite Thanksgiving traditions is watching the classic Mad About You episode, “Giblets for Murray.” It’s the one where Jaime & Paul Buckman host Thanksgiving dinner for their family and friends. We love it. I highly encourage everyone to watch it (it was episode 8 of season 3). Below — and spoiler alert […]

How to make a For All Mankind duct tape space suit costume

October 5, 2022 by Danny Sullivan

Hi Bob. So it’s Halloween, and you want to go dressed as someone from the Apple TV show For All Mankind? Or maybe you fancy some For All Mankind cosplay for an event? How about making your own iconic duct tape space suit? It’s easy and cheap. Here’s how I made ours that we wore […]

My quest to find the best air quality monitors, both outdoors and indoors

September 15, 2020 by Danny Sullivan

With wildfire smoke causing so much unhealthful air, I found myself wanting my own air quality monitors. I wanted an outdoors one both to better understand what’s happening in our immediate area and to help contribute insight to others. I wanted an indoors one to better understand what the air quality was like in our […]

My new chapter: joining Google to better explain search & help bridge the gap

October 6, 2017 by Danny Sullivan

When I retired from search journalism in June, I had no idea what I would be doing next. I just knew I was ready for a break and something different from what I had been doing for so long. That something different has arrived: I’m joining Google as of Monday. My title is still being […]

Star Wars Is Out In Digital HD — How To Make The Right Choice On Where To Buy

April 10, 2015 by Danny Sullivan

Finally, you can buy the Star Wars films in digital format — digital streaming, that is. Technically, we’ve had Star Wars in digital format via DVD and Blu-ray for ages. But if you wanted to stream Star Wars digitally from the cloud, you couldn’t until today. There seems to be no lack of providers offering […]

My Fall Of The Berlin Wall Story

November 8, 2014 by Danny Sullivan

Growing up as a Cold War kid in the 1970s, I was fascinated by Berlin. I’d read of the airlift, the city being divided then the construction of the Berlin Wall. I always wanted to visit the city. Little did I realize in the year that I did, the wall would actually come down. In […]

Minecraft & Learning To Love The Digital Sandbox For Your Kids

September 16, 2014 by Danny Sullivan

When I was a kid, I used to spend hours playing in a little dirt patch in our backyard. I’d build cities with roads for my toy cars, rivers for boats, you name it. My kids do the same thing today. They just do it digitally, through Minecraft. My children have been Minecraft fanatics since […]

How Much Is A New York Times Subscription? It Takes A Spreadsheet To Answer

June 24, 2014 by Danny Sullivan

Quick — how much does it cost to subscribe to the New York Times? The answer is that to figure out what’s the best option for you likely involves firing up a spreadsheet, given the lack of transparency in how the New York Times prices things. The New York Times is hardly the only publisher […]

King Tides Hit Newport Beach: Before & After

December 13, 2012 by Danny Sullivan

Yesterday, today and tomorrow, what are known as “king tides” are occurring. These are exceptionally high tide caused by how both the sun and the moon pull on the water. In my city of Newport Beach, they’ve pushed the harbor to extremes. Today, we had flooding in a few places. It would have been far worse […]

How OC’s TCA Toll Roads Agency Drove Me To Switch To Metro ExpressLanes

November 30, 2012 by Danny Sullivan

Orange County has a number of tollroads run by Transportation Corridor Agencies. We have little “FasTrak” transponders in our cars, stuck to our windshields, and we pay a toll on the infrequent occasions we use one of these. But with LA County getting its first tollroad, it suddenly made much more sense to abandon my […]