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I stumbled across an old interview with Gary Wolf, the author of the original novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit? My favourite little bit. I...

Alfred Pennyworth has so much in common with Jeeves. “Enough talk about that, Jeeves. I think I’ve made it quite clear that the cape repre...

Via @acrylicist, I learn about PasswordCard , a cunning little web utility that helps with the problem of remembering lots of strong unique...

The New York Times Magazine offers us a beautiful piece: Fourteen Actors Acting: A Video Gallery of Screen Types, a series of little v...

Furry Girl at Feminisnt gives us what may be the blog post of the year: My experience mocking TSA security theater at Seatac as a nearly-...

Brad DeLong explains why deficit spending is a very good idea right now. The principle to which Interfluidity refers is that when times are ...

A terrific, sharp-tongued summary of the Tea Party's principles Digby: hatred of government a loathing for liberals (and other assorte...

Michael Been 1950-2010 Singer and songwriter I just discovered that Michael Been, songwriter for The Call, died a few months bac...

As part of my ongoing coverage of allusions to my favourite poem, I give you T. S. Elliot's Lost Hip Hop Poem: Via @tristissima who...

I've been meaning to create a web image for this for a while. It should have a number of applications. You keep using that word. I...

Ezra Klein offers us this puzzling graph: Digby explains: Americans worship winners and they don't really care about unfair proce...

Well, I should think so.

A friend pointed me at this picture from a remarkable photo essay about the protests at the G20 summit. It reminded me of an old favour...

I'm finding that the two most useful applications on my iPad are Instapaper and GoodReader. Instapaper is a service for reading lon...

What, again? Vote early. Vote often. Vote no. Except for 15 and (though I resent having to vote on something that passed the legislatur...

Physicians for Human Rights has a new report: In the most comprehensive investigation to date of health professionals’ involvement in the...

I just learned one of these tricks from a colleague, and circulated the other two to my coworkers in return, and it occurred to me that I m...

Posts on this subject are obviously fraught, so first: I keep an index of resources the moral question is simpl...

The Big Caption says: Image from the Boston Globe 's amazing collection.

I was reminded of Roger Ebert's review of The Village : To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefix...

Paramount Studio map of California's geographical facsimiles, fron The Motion Picture Industry as a Basis for Bond Financing, 1927 ...

Via Digby, I learn that the International Committe of the Red Cross confirms that the US is operating the torture prison at Bagram which ...

Patrick McGee, republished on Roger Ebert's blog, warns against losing a tooth on the wrong day. Santa had a son who fell in love wit...

In the unlikely event that you saw Grindhouse , you undoubtedly recall the witty trailers for faux exploitation movies that didn't r...

Randall Munroe, who draws xkcd, “a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language,” did a survey of people's use of colour names. Fi...

Norimitsu Onishi at the New York Times offers a mindboggling piece about karaoke and violence in the Philipines. Mr. Gregorio, 63, a...

Ragnell at Written World has an intriguing theory about the design of military Meals Ready to Eat. All joking aside, MREs are an incredib...

That Lou Reed, such a nice young man: We chatted for a while, and she asked me what my favorite music was. I said the Velvet Undergr...

M.I.A.'s video for her new song “Born Free” is a well-crafted, harrowing political allegory well worth ten minutes of your time. I w...

Local Gas Pump Originally uploaded by jmspool Note that I am sure that, considered in isolation, each of these stickers was an ...