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So today I saw yet another of these stories where “ Politician X calls for a new Manhattan Project to Do Some Impossible Thing ”. I...

Neal Stephenson, in his epic article on computers in China for Wired magazine (back when it was still cool), In the Kingdom of Mao Bell ...

I gotta assemble an index of David Brooks takedowns. I've blogged a bunch of them, but it's handier to have them together like I ...

I waited a couple of years to pick up the iPhone and, as an interaction designer, I regretted my hesitation. I had been an early adopter ...

So there's a little aphorism I hate, attributed to Margaret Mead. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people c...

A while ago I was charmed by the underlit skirt project of maker SexyCyborg that made the rounds thanks to a blurb on bOING bOING. ...

A friend was just complaining about the elimination of Save As from Apple's OS X. In partial defense of Apple, this is a tragical...

A really good interview with Julie Ingersoll, who has written a book on Christian Reconstructionism, an influential religious and cultur...

You know those stories you hear about hippie Vietnam War protestors spitting on military veterans at airports, just as those vets were re...

Robert “The Prince of Darkness” Novak says: The difference between Democrats and Republicans is that Democrats truly believe in gove...

I've been meaning to write something about this American political canard for years, and Jonathan Chait has finally done it for me so...

So I've been trying to get up to speed on what's really happening with Greece and the EU. My man Paul Krugman says: The Europ...

This may be my favorite literary mashup, and since the text is getting to be linkrotted away, I'm hosting it here. “Indeed,” said ...

Over at Crooked Timber, a useful long post by John Holbo Were The Nazis Right-Wing? – or – Weimar Culture: The Insider As Outsider expla...

I love the ketchup article as much as the next designer, but Malcolm Gladwell is poison. Murky thinker. Oversimplifier. Blat...

To the Mysterious Author who writes the PantyCon schedule: I have an unsolicited word of advice, in this moment when a lot of people ...

I have reserved this page for comments on my long open letter to the author of the PantyCon faux convention schedule, so that the comme...

In the course of a good article about why Republicans seem to be pandering to anti-vaccination people over at the Weekly Sift, I was str...

Apropos of the horrifying video making the rounds on Twitter today, of a police officer shooting into a car full of passengers, a few da...