The level of despair you attach to each of the images within will depend on your own psychological condition, but Awl pal Sloane Crosley and friends will certainly give you something to cry about.

Attention sports fans: Awl pal Dan Shanoff's Quickish—a real-time news aggregator—launches today. Check it out.

"It used to be that the question 'what are you drinking?' was between you and your bartender. Now, thanks to smartphones (and megaphones too) the same question is between you and the world. What hasn't changed, though, is that every drink is also a story. Brewtrakr asks 'what are you drinking?' because we want to hear that story." This project sounds fun already, bit it sounds even better when we tell you that one of its founders is Awl pal Luke Mazur. Check it out!

Oh, hey, you should totally head over to Popdust, the new pop music site helmed by former Blender editor Craig Marks and Awl stalwart Maura Johnston! Go say hi, if you haven't already!