If the guys from Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag actually wrote the poetry they wrote, it would probably be a lot less funny and a lot more like the lyrics from Van …

When I look at the scrapbook for my columns, or the blog-into-book collections of years of CES, I feel grateful and proud and overwhelmed. When I look at the huge list that comes up for …

Via Rebecca Blood, a guide to packing light. Includes the obvious-in-retrospect multipurpose tool: dental floss as makeshift thread and shoelaces.

On Travelocity right now: "In The Spirit of Da Vinci: Last Minute Code-Cracking Getaways from $199." Sedoc gnikcarc ekil*? If you've got a taste for cloak and dagger intrigue, solving puzzles and riddles, or wandering …

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Watched the new Spike Lee film The Inside Man tonight. It contains a subtle Bamboozled reference, constant wit, and unyielding suspense. Very good. From dinner: "Michael Dell [in Direct from Dell] has ruined the word …

Once in a while I see a novel by an Indian or Indian-American or Indian disapora author, especially a woman, and I think that they'll fill up the niche before I get my act together …

Hat-tip to Adi for passing this along: a seven-minute film or trailer about MC Frontalot includes some footage from the show that I attended several weeks ago. Between 3:02 and 3:38 you'll see me, Adi, …

I can't imagine this is completely okay legally, but some folks have reenacted a few skits from Square One TV, including a dance to "8% of My Love." I love that song! It's a very …

From a Business of Software discussion: yes, it's a Steve Pavlina article, but this one isn't nearly as wince-inducing as his "focus all arguments on the other person's flaws" HOWTO. This one is a really …