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Andrea Zanin at Sex Geek has a terrific long post, The Problem With Polynormativity . Polyamory is getting a lot of airtime in the med...

This fasting metabolism business is craaaazy. Tuesday afternoon my digestive system powered down in the face of the flu. (Mercifully, ...

For future reference: Dan Klyn argues that Architecture ≠ Design . He's sneaking up on a distinction that I think is useful, though a...

A few days back I got drawn into a Twitter discussion about art and design. It sprung from this exchange: Alan Cooper ‏<@MrAlanCoo...

The previous post reminds me that one of the best pieces of design advice I know comes from the screenwriter Jane Espenson. There is...

Glenn Reid has a terrific little memoir of working with Steve Jobs. I can still remember some of those early meetings, with 3 or 4 of...

VICE has an amazing interview with a young woman who has taken the name Labanna Babalon. You gotta put it in perspective of everythin...

How do you know what you know? at the Weekly Sift argues that the proliferation data availability combined with human thought processes ...

Corey Robin is one of my favorite lefty observers explaining what conservatism is and how it works. He argues that conservatism is ultima...

S. G. Collins offers us an entertaining and thoughtful little video about how implausibly hard it would have been to fake the Moon landi...

David Brin notices something about what he calls our favorite cliché. He notices that we don't believe it. It is we in fiction w...

One of my favorite pieces of writing-about-writing is David Mamet's unforgettable memo to the writers of The Unit . EVERY SCENE M...

New York Magazine's Jonathan Chiat on an example of David Brooks' legendermain. This is all Obama’s fault because it makes ...

Moonrise Kingdom is magical: exactly the movie Wes Anderson has been trying to make for years. I don't want to say anything more ab...

The mind, it boggles. Glenn Beck uses his own show as an example in a succinct description of the bullshit-generating process. It ...

I love this poster from Walkable And Livable Cities Institute . It's not hard to see which place I'd rather live in. Reminds...

Jason Evanish writes 25 Things I Wish I Knew Before Moving to San Francisco , which is a pretty good guide, especially for migrants comin...

Kaid Benfield at the National Resources Defense Council describes the nightmarish hostility of our built environment in an essay on the d...

Malcolm W. Browne at the New York Times debunks one of my favorite science legends. Of all the cases cited by psychiatrists, psycho...

A few months ago I played John Harper's beautiful little story game adventure Lady Blackbird . The game is a marvel: in sixteen page...

Boil The Frog takes two musicians or bands as inputs, then creates a playlist which smoothly takes you from one to the other. Uncanny, f...

Loving this phenomenon. Princess Darth Vader Princess Darth Vader Princess Darth Vader Princess Darth Vader Princess D...

This is just an index of links, so I don't lose them, pending a later real post on the subject. Post-Christianity, Political Solid...

Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, thinking that he was talking to conservative media, accidentally told Media Matters about conse...

I just Facebooked the very funny article at The Verge about this year's incredibly ill-conceived Consumer Electronics Show keynote. ...

With folks talking about Quentin Tarantino lately, I had occasion to link someone to this post — and discovered that it was lost , so wit...

Barack Obama says that he is not a progressive. The truth of the matter is that my policies are so mainstream that if I had set the s...

David O. Atkins at Digby's Hullaballoo on politics, austerity, and the crisis of economic thinking. What seems more likely is tha...

I was at a public Pagan festival a while ago and a passing non-Pagan asked one of the people working at the information booth who we al...

Short review: Go see it if you can. But can you? For some people, the answer to that will be No, for either of a couple of good reaso...