Temperatures this weekend will hit the mid-eighties. Makes me want to carry an ice-water bath around town with me.

The most permissive laws ever are not good enough for the Bush Administration. To boil it down mathematically, if you had an arrangement by which you could f*** other women, then three days later tell …

Leonard is back! The era of buying airplane tickets two days in advance is (I hope) over! Last night I saw Dara and her friend Amina, and we stayed up too late talking; now my …

"[W]e also want our creations to be out of control....We want pride, but more than that, we want astonishment." "The lie of everlasting novelty: a different take on the case against porn." Kameron Hurley almost …

Would you rather work with an affable incompetent, or with the most abrasive genius ever? Software developers, the stereotype goes, have House-ish characteristics: They don't care about their colleagues' emotions and see everyone who does …

Sometimes I wish I could defend "Keep it Simple, Stupid" with flair and confidence to people who think they need things that they probably don't. Folks who say "the customer is always right" have almost …

"This guy's incredible." Cynical, topical, addictive. The AAAAAGH: Finally, in March of 2004, the CIA figured out they had screwed up. Masri's passport was genuine, and he was just some poor unemployed schmoe who had …

Poet Jim Fisher (a.k.a. Mountain Goats fan Jim Fisher) is finishing up a two-year poetry fellowship at Stanford. He pointed me to a cutting Billy Collins poem about workshopping poetry -- oh man, no code …

I'll start with a taxonomy that made me laugh (caution: it's raunchy). Some columns I've written lately (tardy because of ANG technical problems): From April: Scheme, scheming, and geek authenticity and getting married -- a …

Last night I went to a Mike Daisey show about Tesla, which was very good of course, and I'm really looking forward to next week's conclusion of his "Great Men of Genius" series (L. Ron …