Unintentional bugging of a colleague, that sort of thing. Gar. Tonight I see a friend, for the last time before she moves, at a bar entitled the Last Day Saloon. Many people (author included) accidentally …

Avi Zenilman wraps up his internship roundup with "The Most Kick-Ass Job in the Whole Entire World: The Scott Shuger summer internship at Slate's Washington D.C. bureau" and a personal ad. "How do I get …

U. of Texas posts entire Gutenberg Bible on Internet. My first thought: "Don't do that, Gutenberg'll sue you!"

My referrer logs told me that someone(s) had hit my site from "Xorpheeds", which I assume is a Brendan aggregator. If it's not Brendan, it's a scarily good approximation thereof, for who else would keep …

Instead of eminent domain, I want to seize property via M&M domain, where you make a circle of M&Ms around whatever you want.

I worry that my mind thinks I'm a morning person and my body thinks I'm a night person.

Salon lives on the 16th floor of a building in San Francisco. Today I look out our window and watch the fog blur and soften the skyscrapers. In some spots I can watch clouds of …

My sister has safely made it to India. She'll be knocking around India and Kyrgyzstan (Capital: Bishkek) for a bit and then coming back to the US to settle in DC and go to grad …

Yes, this conversation took place near an authentic water cooler. "I have grandiose laundry plans for the weekend. There's gonna be detergent, there may even be fabric softener." "That's going a little too far for …

Extremely funny, via an offhand remark in Slate: why nobody says, "Let's go buy a condo in the valley of the shadow of death!" Really sad and disturbing: British weapons adviser possibly found dead. "Kelly, …