Californians: today's your last day to register to vote for this year's election. And you can vote early to avoid lines and broken machines, and free up your election day for volunteering and get-out-the-vote work. …

"The American story is one of redemption and hope. That's my story and I'm sticking to it."

Last night Hal [happy returns of the day, Hal!] told me a tale of a job-hunting workshop he attended wherein the leader told him, without irony, that he needed to pump more buzzwords into his …

If there's one iota of wisdom I remember from Reader's Digest's "Quotable Quotes," it's that good stories feature ordinary people doing extraordinary things or extraordinary people doing ordinary things. This model explains to me why …

The monthly New York Tech Meetup continues to put on a good show. It used to be free to get in but now you have to prepay $10 on the Meetup site to RSVP, since …

If there is one thing I have learned from Obama Pics Daily it is that the candidates have to eat in public, a lot, and they often look silly while doing so. Barack Obama is …

I love reading Derek Lowe's In The Pipeline to glimpse the shape of the biochem industry: what's inherently hard, what's common, and what's revolutionary. The grammar is familiar if the nouns aren't. This came through …

I really like writing technical specifications and recruiting. Today I did both!

On any given day there would be three or four debates Sixteen or more debates would determine the winner, tournament-style You'd see team debate ("Oxford-style") where each ticket found out 90 minutes before the show …

On the occasion of the end of his TV show, Roger Ebert links to semi-embarrassing YouTube clips and garners poignant appreciation from his fans. One crucial point comes up over and over again in the …