Diagram of machines and their locations, or diagram of machines and their LOLcations?
Tonight I watched Ten Things I Hate About You for the first time (TiVo thought I'd like it), and hoo boy did I ever go to high school in the 1990s. You could reduce me …
Somehow a little too weighty to go into the del.icio.us feed: in 1989, a guy in Montreal shot 28 people, almost all women, saying that he was "fighting feminism." I hadn't heard of this incident …
An inadequate excerpt from Sarah Brown of Cringe, on hopes laid bare in a teenager's diary: You want someone you like to come into your room and ask you if you've read all those books …
Well, this will get a bit crowded. Welcome to the social! This week's column is about Kannada, "Indian," and other languages. Did you know that my sister's brushing up her Hindi? Right now she can …
This week's column, on the funny spam. I've added books to my wish list based on interesting sentences that spammers stole and pasted in to fool spam filters. I've received spam that includes passages from …
Saturday, June 16th: A friend of mine is in a play in Washington, DC. An interesting metal band plays a park in Astoria. And Slightly Known People leads several area sketch comedy groups in covering …
Tonight I'll probably go to the New York Tech Meetup, in hope of interesting demos and good questions. I've been to several of them in the past 16 months, and attendance has stabilized at 300-500. …
A May 20th column on coffee rituals (citing Neal Stephenson) and a nice little column from yesterday, on my sister's graduation, dancing, food, and an old album. It could be that the main reason I …
A commercial for "Shrek 3" contains music from OK Go's "Here It Goes Again." I will be disappointed if no one in this film dances on a treadmill.
