Miniver Cheevy

Via Lauren Davis at io9, a set of nifty little animations about critical thinking. It reminds me that one of these days I want to c...

I have reserved this page for comments on my long open letter to PantheaCon so that the comment thread there can be a place for people t...

To Glenn Turner and the other organizers of PantheaCon : I write to you in the understanding that you have asked for feedback from the...

I have long been interested in gestural computer interfaces, and when I first saw this video a few years back it made a big impression o...

Folklore.org is a repository of anecdotes about the creation of the Macintosh. Many of them are entertaining even if you aren't that k...

I just saw this passage from John Cassidy's book How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamaties , and was struck by the quote of Ad...

A quick word from the New Yorker about the weird verbal tic of movement conservatives when talking about the Democratic Party. “Demo...

I created this image for use elsewhere, but I thought it might be a good idea to have handy here. Just to be clear: that's Ay...

I'm fond of telling folks about the very modest contribution I have made to my nephew's moral development; less because I feel th...

A user on Reddit asks folks to tell their stories about experiencing “a glitch in the Matrix”. The stories are amazing.

Here's a first draft for a short list of the central challenges for building a good society. It's why I'm skeptical of anarchis...

I changed my site for the day so that every page said this instead: Today, Wednesday 18 January 2012, countless websites have “blacked...

I really need to get around to writing a post about (or rather, stitching together some good links about) why fretting about fiat money i...

I need to read up on populism.

Dig the trailer for this movie, coming out next week: I'm excited about catching this opening weekend. There's politics involv...

I just sent this letter. After twenty-five years as a reader of the New York Times , this is my first missive to the paper. I read...

A friend reminds me of John Scalzi telling us that the Confederacy was evil and the Confederate Battle Flag symbolizes evil. His key...

A decade ago, I used to make this witticism about companies that were crawling with employees who weren't employees, but rather consu...

A recent dKos diary post by Nicholas Carroll reflecting on Occupy Wall Street in the context of revolutionary movements around the world h...

Brad Hicks is a blogger who writes only very occasionally, but at length, on a range of subjects, insightfully. LiveJournal has dele...