We can’t get them for you wholesale
Here's how things are in Texas: It's illegal to "wholesale promote" obscene materials or devices. Texas statute says an obscene...
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Vampire ecology
Cute article by Brian Thomas titled "Vampire Population Ecology," mathematically analyzing whether the town of Sunnydale can support a sizable...
Four long hours of driving
Geoff H. had a roundsing today, up in Sebastopol. It was lovely. The main problem with Sebastopol from my point...
Bicycle hunting
Will passed along a cute photo of a bicyclist carrying a deer. The comments posted below it are kinda entertaining,...
Mentioned on slashdot
Well, we haven't been slashdotted per se, but someone on slashdot did post a comment some hours back (in response...
Clone of the Attack
Since I've seen this on a mailing list twice in the past 24 hours, I suspect everyone else has seen...
Big Science
Recently picked up Laurie Anderson's seminal album Big Science on CD, and "O Superman" just came on iTunes. I've been...
Pampling the moose
I got curious about the origin of pamplemousse; it seemed clear that it came from pample+mousse, and so I wondered...
Naming notes
Oops—I left the name Eeyore out of the list of possible heffalump names. Sorry about that. The place where the...
Infinite anniversary!
Happy first birthday to The Infinite Matrix! They've posted new material every weekday for a full year now, and new...
Monkey helpers
This is mighty impressive: Helping Hands, an organization that trains capuchin monkeys to help quadriplegic people. The video clip linked...
Timewasters
I should have spent this morning editing. And I did a little editing, but I also fell afoul of a...