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Digby at Hullaballoo has a particularly excellent long post Guess which “extreme” the public agrees with? about the politics of “deficit...

Cracked, which has quietly been staking out a space for itself as a home for critical-thinking-based humor, has a little guide to 5 Easy ...

It turns out that in its original intended context of crummy displays of aliased text, the most hated font in the world, Comic Sans, was...

A discussion on my Facebook feed today read like the future my colleagues and I used to hope for when I was starting out in interaction d...

One of my favorite lefty political blogs, The Weekly Sift from Doug Muder, has a terrific post which asks the question What if there’s no...

A Facebook Friend just found this nifty little ten minute promotional piece on the portrayal of religion in the HBO/BBC series Rome . ...

For future reference: Alex Koppelman at The New Yorker outlines the “Friends of Hamas” story as an example of Breitbartism. A little...

One sees this supposed quote from Benito Mussolini around the internet: Fascism should more properly be called “corporatism”, since it...

Ganked from an inconvieniently formatted source. I was watching children’s titles with my daughter when she was age two, and I have a...

I'm a designer who works in technology. In my sphere there is a lot of talk out there about how you go about getting the best work ou...

I finally found an online copy of the Frank Miller speech in which he debunks the legend of Dr. Wertham and the Senate compelling the c...

I've been collecting facts and arguments about guns since Sandy Hook inspired a round of discussion about them. I've long be...

In discussion of the meaning of the Second Amendment, much hinges on that first clause. A well regulated militia being necessary to th...

I've let myself get sucked in to some discussions with anarchists on Facebook recently. Here's a comment of mine which I thought ...

For future reference: a big online archive of Windsor McCay's magical newspaper strip Little Nemo .

I woke up this morning thinking of this marvelous pagan film. The Greek God Dionysus does not only stand for revelry. He stands fo...

BlackBerry's pandering effort to get me to think their new phone is cool by giving Neil Gaiman a dump truck full of money to talk it ...

In The Map Of Droneworld , Charles P. Pierce at Esquire describes how horrifyingly corrosive of democracy the use of drones by the US ha...

In the post Fake Druidry and Ogreld , A Druid Way expresses a radical disinterest in continuity with the ancients, quoting John Michael G...

Fred Clark of Slacktivist debunks the myth that it was Roe v. Wade which sparked the emergence of the Religious Right as a major force ...

Rhett Aultman found me this great quote from an interview with Slavoj Žižek. I see — what worries me is two things about the left. F...

A terrific little memoir and reflection, Shooter Boys and At-Risk Girls , about how badly we handle teenagers who are even a little bit w...

A home run from Driftglass, David Brooks Forgets, on the pundit's faux “balance”. blaming the Left is how every David Brooks frac...

Aliyah bat Stam, “a kabalist, Jewish educator, ceremonial magician and Torah Observant Jewitch”, writing at Patheos talks about why it...

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...