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Seen today on the homepage for LiveJournal: The network is hoping for fanfic and trying to promote it. A surprising twist. By...

Cory Doctrow has currently breaking copyfight news. Right now, in Geneva, at the UN's World Intellectual Property Organization, ...

I am certain that several of my readers will enjoy The Recently Deflowered Girl: The Right Thing to Say On Every Dubious Occasion. You k...

John Rodgers brings up an interesting idea while talking about whether iTunes' impact on the music industry suggests a good model for...

Prop 8 has been upheld in court. I've been trying to remind myself that if you'd told me ten years ago that same-sex marriage...

As if we needed further evidence of Rachael Maddow's nerdiness / awesomeness: she maintains a web page of her favourite infographics,...

John Thile at Lunar Policy reveals that I've been skipping an ingredient all these years! After many months of periodic searching, I...

Joss Whedon comments on his love of Battlestar Galactica . I think obsessive is too light a word. I absolutely adore it. It's my favor...

Via my mother, I give you a guide to the little-known opera L’Obama, ossia L’Avvento del Messia La Piazza del Cattedrale di Washington. ...

You may recall my earlier posts about faux motivational posters, and how part of my fascination with them is my usual overthinking about w...

I've been grumbling for a while now about having heard the Ramones' “Blitzkreig Bop” in a TV commercial. “Is nothing sacred?” But f...

Brad DeLong rounds up the details on the Maureen Dowd plagarism story. In summary: Dowd cribbed a paragraph from Josh Marshall of Talking ...

Charlie Stross goes all Bruce Sterling talking about computer games in the near future, with some very interesting stops along the way. I ...

Shamus Young at Twenty Sided offers us the tale of Seven Springs: “Naked Girls, A Hotel-Sized Prank, The Terrors of Room 102, and Lessons L...

If you're a Browncoat, check out The Race on XKCD. If you're not a Browncoat, ask a geeky friend to lend you their Firefly DVDs....

If you're puzzled by why so many comics fans were unhappy about Frank Miller's film adaptation of The Spirit , I offer an explanatio...

Guest poster Tyler Durden at Zero Hedge describes “Why I'm Freaking Out.” Sixteen months into this Millennial Depression, and less t...

I saw the work in David Linn's 2006 series at the Frey Norris Gallery in San Francisco. It's still on my mind. I need to scare ...

Doug LeMoine has been using the Kindle software on his iPhone, and has made an interesting discovery. If I were a derivatives man, I’d go ...

The New York Times reports that the danger of online pædophiles is mostly BS. A high-profile task force created by 49 state attorneys gen...

Momus at Click Opera has a cool idea about how pop culture reflects time. It turns out that it's not quite true that “pop culture has n...

J. J. Abrams has decided that Star Trek is neither science fiction nor social commentary, but pulp sci-fi adventure and witty character int...

Via Infinite Perplexity, I learn that if you actually do the math, the rule should be “sixteen items or fewer.” Sort of.

Oh! Hey! It's Odd Day! www.OddDay.net has the skinny. Odd Day is coming Thursday, 5/7/9. Three consecutive odd numbers make up the dat...

Miss Ludmilla points us at a YouTube video of John Doe and Nels Cline jamming the hell out of the Rolling Stones' “Gimme Shelter.” ...

Maybe I shouldn't post something so geeky the same week when I'm going to see Star Trek , but I've had this one burning a hole i...

In case you missed it, Clay Shirky has an essay that's been getting a lot of play, about the crisis in the newspaper industry. In a rec...

That's one from an imaginary series of “I Can Read Movies” books, and they're all that witty. Via Lore Sjöberg.

I forgot to post this last month: Ezra Klein snarking well on a Republican “budget proposal” that quite deserves it. It's reads like ...

I am bemused that the rollover of the Mayan calendar is being converted into yet another boneheaded Roland Emmerich disaster movie. And I ...