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January 2013

January 16, 2013
The only difference for me is that I begin by dreading the responses. Comic by...
January 15, 2013
Now that I'm settling in with my Nexus 7, after my hefty deliberations which resulted...
January 14, 2013
Thanks to a Fireballing, I rediscovered this essay by Rod Hilton on a suggested viewing...
January 13, 2013
The day I did not think I would see has come. Today I sold my...
January 13, 2013
One of Toby's favorite songs for bedtime used to be Toad the Wet Sprocket's "Walk...
January 13, 2013
The opening track from my 2004 record Paul is Making Me Nervous. It'll slay the...
January 12, 2013
I've been looking for ways to express my feelings about online interactions of late, and...
January 12, 2013
It can't be helped. When you have a household with a 3-year-old obsessed with dinosaurs...
January 11, 2013
From Miriam Mogilevsky, who blogs here at Brute Reason, but posted this elsewhere for no...
January 11, 2013
Good morning. Play this loud. From my 2004 record Paul is Making Me Nervous.
January 11, 2013
From Toothpaste for Dinner.
January 11, 2013
My wife asked me a question I at first dismissed when I told her about...
January 10, 2013
Here is Sam Harris's great sin: In the context of many hot-button issues, the data...
January 09, 2013
Whatever's bothering you, however crappy you're feeling, this Tumblr will make you feel at least a...
January 08, 2013
David Free in The Atlantic susses out what about Monty Python worked so well, and...
January 08, 2013
Apparently, I'm not the only one who doesn't like Internet comment sections. Neither does science....
January 07, 2013
Note from May 2015: This was written when I was blogging at Freethought Blogs, which...
January 07, 2013
Friend of the blog, and our whole little family, really, Meg Rhem, has advice for...
January 06, 2013
Considering the recurring subjects of e-readers and gadgets on this blog, it seems appropriate to...
January 05, 2013
It's been almost a week with the Nexus 7, and since the kids are finally...
January 05, 2013
As one whose shelves were once littered with not-reading, I liked this. From the Chronicle...
January 04, 2013
Kate Donovan, who is a real blessing to the interwebs, makes a great point about...
January 02, 2013
Oh, barf. Okay, so apparently that Thunderf00t guy (who I didn't know anything about before...
January 02, 2013
Catherine Bracy on the tech sector's obliviousness to genuine social causes and crises: The well-documented...

December 2012

December 31, 2012
When I read this piece by Louis Michael Seidman in the New York Times today,...
December 30, 2012
The Economist has a very worthwhile exploration of the enduring concept of Hell, but concludes...
December 27, 2012
Jaron Lanier, a kind of web reverse-guru, perhaps the Anti-Shirky, talks to Smithsonian magazine about...
December 27, 2012
A new Pew report with all sorts of nifty data on tablets and e-reading suggests...
December 26, 2012
An article at Ars Technica asks an interesting question: why is DRM still tolerated on...
December 26, 2012
This is how politics and advocacy is done on the right. Unlike progressive or reality-based...
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