Miniver Cheevy

Since I know that my readership is unusually well-populated with belly dancers, I commend to your attention this video which my colleagues ...

Holy Baudriard, Batman. Soldiers in Iraq appear to have learned how to decorate a military encampment by watching reruns of M*A*S*H .

I've gone beyond so busy that I'm only posting links to YouTube videos all the way to so busy that I'm posting links to old ...

I plan to spend the day looking for balance ....

Five years today. I have neither the time nor the inclination today to outline the numberless Iraqi dead, the almost four thousand Ame...

Today I think of what Galileo would have given to have access to Google Sky.

Despite being crazy busy with work and meshugass the last couple of weeks, I've stumbled into a few reports about this tiresome Eliot S...

Of interest to my readers working in IT and suchlike fields of endeavor: David Gewirtz' article about the White House email archiving...

Via Content Love, I have the answer to the baffling question, “What do these things have in common?” K. D. Lang (or k. d. lang) O...

The nice people at Volkswagen were kind enough to fund the creation of what may be my favourite 60-second film.

I've recently learned that Steve Jackson, the famous game designer, is a collector of Pirate Legos. Unsurprisingly, he uses them to play...

Christopher B. Leinberger, writing in The Atlantic , writes about the coming decline of suburbs and observes how physically unprepared the...

Senator Obama may have the inspirational music —and it's worth thinking about what it means that as a candidate he's inspiring tha...

Ever wonder how the Beatles, circa 1964, would have performed Led Zeppelin's “Stairway to Heaven”? Yeah, me neither. Well, Beat...

I'm not quite sure how I found this. Meditation & Violence A short video, using sock puppet actors, focusing on two incidents within...

The Song Chart Meme has a bit of a poor signal-to-noise ratio, but the successful efforts are impressive. If you liked that there...

I see that the Asylum Street Spankers are hitting the road again. Austin readers: go to Momo's Friday night at 9:00 or the SXSW s...

OK, it's been forever since I've been blogging regularly, thanks to some serious distractions , as well as the fact that I didn...

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...