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“San Francisco” — song by Jill Sobule, directed by Margaret Cho. If you want to see that, you probably know who you are. Now why do I rec...

Lucian K Truscott IV remembers forty years ago today. Across the street from the Stonewall, a crowd of maybe 100 was watching the police ...

Michael Jackson 1958-2009 King of Pop It seems I'm not alone in being surprised to find myself affected by his passing. The nig...

Malcolm Gladwell, writing for The New Yorker about caffeine makes one of the kind of facile, reductive cause-and-effect observations that ...

Amanda Palmer explains again why the record labels are doomed, in (of course!) under 140 characters. total made on twitter in two hours = ...

John Hodgman's address to the White House Correspondents' Dinner isn't quite so astonishing as Stephen Colbert's legendary ...

Ebert on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. If you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir sing...

Nick Mamatas at The Smart Set has a fascinating article about writing term papers for money. the term paper biz is managed by brokers who...

Sing, cuccu, nu. Sing, cuccu. Sing, cuccu, nu. Sing, cuccu. Sumer is i-cumin in, Lhude sing, cuccu! Groweth sed and bloweth med And s...

Michele Boldrin and David K.Levine have a cogent discussion of intellectual property law which will have you understanding the issue better...

I stumbled across the New Yorker review of Mama Mia! The legal definition of torture has been much aired in recent years, and I take “Ma...

This Onion headline leapt out at me: Even CEO Can't Figure Out How RadioShack Still In Business. I have wondered the same thing myse...

... but the internet is on the case. Solarbird says: If you weren't already convinced of the American media's complete and wret...

A few days ago, Paul Witcover blogged something rather odd which he found through YouTube: Luciano Pavarotti and Lou Reed singing a duet...

I remember reading that the old Palm III had a processor and memory equivalent to the original Macintosh SE, and here I was using all that c...

Eat Me Daily describes Kevin Van Aelst's work as “food art,” missing the very important point that it is food science art. Tasty, tast...

Momus says: In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen people

From a fascinating description of accomodations aboard the Hindenberg . Perhaps most surprising, aboard a hydrogen airship, there was also...

I used to work with a guy who sometimes wore a t-shirt which said this: It's a little joke on the seven layer OSI model for c...

IAmDrTiller.com This website was created as both a memorial to the lifework of Dr. George Tiller and as a living testimony to the courageo...

Via Paul Witcover I learn that the chemistry party is perhaps even cleverer than the internet party.

Matthew Yglesias notices something that I half-noticed myself during the campaign, but didn't know to name. Part of the rise of Obama ...

I was just commenting to someone the other day about my love for “lost” cult TV series from the hazy memory of my youth: Tales of the Gold M...

Van Canto are five singers, one drummer, and they cover heavy metal songs. \m/

Greg Ruka says: She’s not going crazy, she’s not neurotic — you look at every other superhero ever and they are all malfunctioning in...

Barack Obama: We have a joke around the White House. We’re just going to keep on telling the truth until it stops working ... There are ti...

Joss Whedon offers us seven things he loves about sci-fi: Spaceships in trouble Tough women Famous actors in the ghetto Lightsabers Robots...

Via Miriam at Feministing, I learn that the Los Angeles Times reports on Fairfax High's 2009 Prom Queen. [Sergio] Garcia, 18, spent...