I watched the overtime and the penalty kicks at a crowded cafe near my house, where the crowd ran very pro-Italian but gave good sporting cheers to French goals too. The pro-Italian folks celebrated for …
Today some del.icio.us poking-around led me back to the Voyager. Would you rather be a girl named Adah or a boy named Adan? A boy named Carmine or a girl named Princess? A boy named …
"A hope that we can live with one another in a way that reconciles the beliefs of each with the good of all." From a speech that I he wrote specifically for me, it seems.
Do you know anyone to nominate for ICANN? As long as they're not villains.
Things I sort of wanted to do today: work on an essay, start reading The Baroque Cycle, rewrite a humorous play about Indian-Americans that my sister and I wrote ten years ago. In fact, I've …
When your religion is someone else's tourist attraction. I once told my mother that I was becoming a Buddhist and renouncing worldly things. This was fine with her until I declared that this also applied …
Some leftover chunks of text: I get irrational if I'm trying to go to sleep alone. I need a light on, and music, and no windows open, even if it's dadblamed hot. Otherwise ninjas with …
Do you remember that great Vampire Domestication PowerPoint? The creator has a bunch of free short stories for you to peruse. "Mayfly" is creepy. Also: EFF is looking for a Staff Technologist to join Seth …
Zed linked to something hilarious re: Catholicism and that Dan Brown novel. Brendan already knows about this LiveJournal, but Claudia might not.
Now that I have read A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Malkiel, I can understand Daniel Davies on beta and his lyrical allusions to what Gladwell would call the black swan. A Davies bonus: …
