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February 2013

February 22, 2013
It looks like a previous Kindle ad, but with a twist at the end that...
February 22, 2013
You really have to watch this video of this mystical guy who really seems to...
February 21, 2013
Why I love the Internet: I thought to myself, they often talk about overseas military...
February 19, 2013
Before his time, Jack White shakes his fists at the clouds. Via The Verge: "Getting...
February 17, 2013
As mentioned in the previous post, which is about something else entirely, I was delighted...
February 17, 2013
As part of a recent initiative of mine to read a bunch of the foundational...
February 15, 2013
From the NYT report on the Siberia meteor: “I opened the window from surprise —...
February 14, 2013
Ta-Nehisi Coates on our perpetual state of war: The president is anti-torture — which is...
February 11, 2013
His creepiness Pope Benedict XVI is going to resign at the end of the month,...
February 09, 2013
Go ahead and let this passage from a wonderful piece on Galileo by Adam Gropnik...
February 08, 2013
I can't help but think that Justin Timberlake, perhaps many years from now, will find...
February 07, 2013
With a few exceptions, I haven't been into video games in a very long time....
February 06, 2013
Wikipedian Brandon Harris takes to Quora to talk about how he felt being the subject...
February 04, 2013
What's not news is that high school is, for many, hell. But the effects of...
February 03, 2013
Fast Company has a rich examination of what might be contributing to the (perceived) degradation...
February 03, 2013
You know, I actually kind of dig Seth Godin. He really does drop some useful...

January 2013

January 31, 2013
Sometimes there are products or services that I really dig, but I find myself alienated...
January 29, 2013
Matt Alexander declares that today the iPad has replaced the Mac, by adding a new...
January 27, 2013
Well, no I didn't. But get this. So this vending machine is selling stickers of...
January 26, 2013
We do not like to be told we are being jerks. We do not like...
January 26, 2013
Gary Wills, a conservative, shakes his head at his native South: This is a region that...
January 25, 2013
Don't worry, girl. From my album Evidence of Absence, accompanying froggie image by Phoebe Schweizer...
January 24, 2013
A young protester interrupts his confirmation testimony, and he says, yeah, that's what I was...
January 23, 2013
My three-year-old boy Toby and I were talking about presidential politics in the car this...
January 22, 2013
I feel trapped by Facebook. A recent Salon piece by Sara Scribner has rekindled my...
January 21, 2013
Andrew Sullivan, reacting to the president's second inaugural: Over the years, I’ve never let go...
January 19, 2013
I just ate up this essay by Benjamin Kunkel at n+1. Chiefly it diagnoses the...
January 18, 2013
Josh Marshall speaks up for the legitimacy of the opinion of folks who hate guns:...
January 17, 2013
The Verge has an interesting piece on the implications of Google's Chromebooks, cheap-as-dirt laptops that...
January 17, 2013
A song of mine from 2006 that's ostensibly about a plausible spaceship, but really about...
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