Miniver Cheevy

Who can resist? It's the music, right?

A couple of indecisive friends have asked my opinion about the forthcoming primary election. First, a quick word for California voters baf...

Warren Ellis has been following closely the recent series of spooky little propaganda videos posted on YouTube from the mysterious web anar...

For more than a decade, I've been spamming people with this note every year. Now that I have a blog, I'm just sticking to re-postin...

My old employer wishes us all a Happy New Year using a tool I worked on designing.

Ephraim “Frank” Korman 1929-2007 Scientist, teacher, father Some of my readers know that for the last few years, I've been on “D...

From the ridiculous to the sublime: Carol of the Old Ones Midwinter

I know that I'm long, long overdue for some real posting, but I'm still having internet access trouble at home. In the meantime, ...

Yes, I am in San Diego, but no, I am not on fire. That is all.

So I'm spending this weekend packing all of my worldly possessions. Here you see a stack of boxes containing only data . If you excl...

Many friends and blog readers may have wondered why I dropped off the face of the Earth this last month. I owe apologies to a bunch of folks...

He thought he lost the biggest contest of all. This year he took home the Oscar and the Emmy. And now the most distinguished award in...

A friend points me to a recent article in The New Yorker about Leica, king of camera brands. To non-photographers, Leica, more than ...

I found these icons on a Christian propaganda website. One might quibble with “New Age” as a stable category described as...

Yes, this release, to be signed by employees, is from the actual employee handbook. I hereby acknowledge and affirm that I have read ...

How many English-speaking people are there in the world who enjoyed both My Neighbor Totoro and Ringu (or at least The Ring )? Not so m...

It be International Talk Like a Pirate Day today, me hearties! Arrr!

Hillary Clinton asked the fake Steve Jobs for money, and he reports on the results. I mean nobody makes fun of my John Lennon glasses. Nob...

An observation from TV Tropes. Running The Asylum A sufficiently established franchise is indistinguishable from Fanfic. When the going g...

Prof DeLong has a jazzy post about Keynes that actually make him sound kind of sexy . John Maynard Keynes is the man who has the best clai...

Dresden Codek, Particle Man, has a proposal. Guys, it's time for Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day You must spend the entire day in ...

Click this link. Any opinions on who would win?

Eliezer Yudkowsky has a story for us. Rilanya: “You're not like the others, are you?” Darin: “What do you mean?” Rilanya: “I ... ...

Heart's Desire points us to www.TrenchArt.org , a website devoted to art made by WWI soldiers while they were serving, often using mat...

I find it hard to speak, so I'm just going to quote from my blogroll. Ezra Klein You know, I felt a bit conflicted about writing this...

I love this snarky little passage from the story Ghosts: The Straight Dope about mind-body dualism. The story is set in the world of the U...

You be the judge!

Further evidence that Da Vinci was a genius. Leonardo da Vinci did not mix colors on a palette, but directly on the canvas he was painting...

I'm told by a friend that there's a guy who teaches traditional Zen koans who has a koan that is only one word long . Cartooni...

As I've mentioned before, Roger Corman once defined an “exploitation film” as a movie people will go see for the premise, whether or ...