Given the faith’s association with polygamy and kidnapping, it’s easy to cast off Mormonism as a cult. Perspectives shift when Kevin Nguyen meets a Mormon on the train.

Apple and Nintendo are more alike than you may realize. In the last of a three-part series, Nick Martens examines why the companies ignore their adoring fanboys and how simple touch controls outclass more elaborate control schemes.

This is the fourth installment in a series of essays by jet-setter Jordan Barber, who is currently studying Mandarin at Donghai University in Taichung, Taiwan. This time, Jordan takes a step back to assess the country’s political climate, spurred by its historically fickle relationship with China.

Bad design is frustrating, and in this day and age, we are constantly surrounded by it. In spite of it all, Kevin Nguyen meets the team behind Boston’s new Accessible Sailing Program and finds that the right thought and dedication can still produce brilliant results.

MySpace is a popular platform of free self-promotion for the unsigned musician, but how many of these bands are even worth your attention? Apparently very few. Resident sweater model Jeff Merrion embarks on an epic quest to find good music on MySpace.

Or one Klaxon, if you want to be technical. Rock star magnet Caitlin Boersma catches up with James Righton, keyboardist of the Pynchon-referencing “New Rave” outfit.

This is the third installment in a series of essays by jet-setter Jordan Barber, who is currently studying Mandarin at Donghai University in Taichung, Taiwan. Adventurous as always, Jordan reports on the good, the bad, and the ugly of his experiences with Taiwanese cuisine.

Morbid and pensive as always, The Bureau Staff imagines their last dinner before walking the green mile.

The Perry Bible Fellowship is one of the most popular and refreshing comics published online. The Bureau’s Kevin Nguyen and Nick Gurewitch, the series’ writer and illustrator, discuss Garfield, Tagged, and Hillary Clinton.

For the average person, television’s graceful transition to DVD means being able to watch Friends on your leisure; for those with an acquired taste for cult shows and obsessive-compulsive tendencies, it eliminates any reason to ever leave the house. Netflix junkie Caitlin Boersma discusses her newest passion, British sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf.