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September 2013

September 18, 2013
That god damn Monty Hall problem. God damn that thing. God damn it straight to...
September 16, 2013
Anil Dash has coffee with an asshole: [Disgraced misogynist Pax Dickinson] offered up a pretty...
September 12, 2013
I've been casting-pod like a crazy person.  Just as a quick update, yesterday I posted...
September 08, 2013
Read your writing out loud, advises Alan Jacobs, particularly in the case of opinion or...
September 06, 2013
I have a problem with this headline from the National Post, which says, "Triceratops never...
September 05, 2013
Stephen Cave talks to Susie Nielson about ways of coping with the reality one's inevitable...
September 04, 2013
Michael Graziano explains his theory of consciousness, and I swear, it's the first such explanation...
September 01, 2013
Matt Licata discovers (happens upon? stumbles into? wakes up in?) a real-live Windows mini-store in...

August 2013

August 31, 2013
Hemant Mehta, empresario of Friendly Atheist, is getting married this weekend, and he's leaving me...
August 30, 2013
Sleep robs me of my life. I don’t mean to be overly hyperbolic (just appropriately...
August 28, 2013
This is not definitive, of course. His three-year-old's brain is always finding new ways to...
August 28, 2013
Luke Eplin notes with disappointment what is obvious to any perceptive parent: Kids' entertainment is...
August 27, 2013
The latest edition of the Obcast features longtime friend-of-the-blog Ken Kennedy. Ken's a well-rounded guy...
August 24, 2013
Ian O'Neill covers a high-minded conference discussion about the best protocols for potential encounters with...
August 22, 2013
In my valiant attempts to win the interest of tech geeks for my skepto-atheist organization,...
August 19, 2013
So, iPhone cases.I actually don't use one right now. I'd like to -- I'd like...
August 17, 2013
Twitter has become one of my favorite mediums. When used well, its strict character parameters...
August 16, 2013
Lionel Shriver quotes one of her own novels' characters to explain the different worlds inhabited...
August 15, 2013
My very good friend Ryan Koronowski is my guest on the latest edition of the...
August 15, 2013
Hannah Dale Thompson has lived both sides of the attractiveness divide, and cops to behaving...
August 14, 2013
Mike Daisey is doing something very different in the world of theatre: a 29-night monologue,...
August 10, 2013
Last year, I made a little photo montage video as a gift for my wife...
August 10, 2013
Stephen Fry says Russia's treatment of gays and lesbians must have international consequences. In an...
August 08, 2013
Amazon, Kobo, and Sony are lobbying the FCC not to consider e-readers as the same...
August 08, 2013
Horace Dediu compares popular perceptions of Apple and Amazon:Whereas Apple is perpetually given an expected...
August 07, 2013
Earlier this week, the first out-of-beta, "official" first episode of the Obcast went up, a...
August 03, 2013
In a previous post, I mentioned how Emily Hauser directed me to a revelatory article on...
August 03, 2013
I am in no way qualified, and in no way inclined, to judge between the...
August 02, 2013
Wow! The new Nexus 7 has a Retina-level screen AND gets nine hours of battery...
August 01, 2013
Philosopher Gary Gutting at the New York Times, I think, might be trolling us. Why? He is using...
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