Miniver Cheevy

A beautiful film. 14 months in the making, 42 countries, and a cast of thousands. Thanks to everyone who danced with me. Ten years...

It's San Francisco Pride weekend, and I'm a little vexed that I won't be there. Some years I go to the parade, some years I d...

Via Content Love, I see that living national treasure Alison Bechtel's essay Compulsory Reading captures my angst at no longer reading...

Whaddaya know: someone involved in creating The Dark Future of Warhammer 40,000 is evidently a Thelemite. Perturabo When the twenty inf...

The Los Angeles Times reports some striking poll numbers. In a two-man race between the major-party candidates, registered voters chose O...

The time has come for my triumphant return to San Francisco. I've been laid off from my San Diego gig, so I'll be moving my life bac...

Will Wilkinson informs me that libertarianism ain't (necessarily) what I think it is. Hayek was actually in favor of a guaranteed mini...

I was recently contacted by an old colleague hoping to do some product research on me. She knew I had done some flash mobbing and was hoping...

George Carlin: We have no more old people in this country! No more old people. We shipped them all away, and we brought in these “senior ...

Readers who dig Ken Wilbur (you know who you are) may get a kick out of an exchange I got into about the pre/trans fallacy, over in a LiveJ...

Tom Waits interviews himself. Q: What's heaven for you? A: Me and my wife on Route 66 with a pot of coffee, a cheap guitar, pawnshop ...

Via Indri, I learn that a guy named Carroll Spinney has been performing Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch all these years. The New York Times ...

Having hunted up an image of the Sun for solstice today, I am reminded that I've been meaning to say something about Danny Boyle'...

Thanks for everything, Dad.

Via Warren Ellis: Design and Implementation of the 1 st Theremin Concert for Aliens Abstract The idea and project of the 1 st Theremin ...

I first ran across Newcomb's Problem when I was a teenager. Eliezer Yudkowsky at Overcoming Bias describes it thus: A superintelligence...

Stan Winston 1946-2008 Monster maker He was the best creature and make up effects guy in Hollywood, with an endless bag of tricks using ...

Animator Dony “Madyeti47” Permedi made a little video about a kiwi bird and published it on YouTube. It's good, and a zillion people ha...

The “Journal” story on xkcd is back. It spoils it, just a little bit, to tell you that there are five of them. They didn't come out al...

It turns out that San Diego isn't a total cultural wasteland. I spent last Sunday afternoon at a performance of Bach's Mass in B Min...

You know how you'll sometimes read something a little wrong, getting a bit of brain poetry? I just misread this gem: mind-body duelist ...

Somehow, I missed this one. If you don't get it, never mind. Favorite FRPG: Real Men play original Dungeons & Dragons Real Role...

Neil D Paris has an instructive perspective on Mercury retrograde. If life is about balance, how do you know if you're IN or OUT...

Grace under pressure.

My soul sister is fond of telling a story about the winter and spring of 1993. We were sharing a place and working boring McJobs, and I'...

Via Elusis, a boycott on Charles Shaw wine: Maria Isabel Vazquez died May 16 in hospital after severe heat exhaustion and heat stroke cau...

At Modern Mechanix (“Yesterday's Tomorrows Today ”) I find a glimpse into the world of 2008 according to 1968: 2008 transportation is ...

Film director Guillermo Del Toro, of Pan's Labyrinth and Hellboy fame, has joined HETFET, Humans for the Ethical Treatment of Faires,...

Trisha Ziff and Luis Lopez have made a film, Chevolution , about what may be the most popular photograph in the world. Amy Reiter of Salo...

Ganked whole and entire from Bad Astronomy: Emily has what is simply The Coolest Picture Ever. It is that simple. That is exactly what...