Made with Paper
I've been really liking an iPad sketching app called Paper. It's not a full-fledged Art Application; for example, it doesn't...
Author Archive
Group discussion can result in extreme views
In 2000, the Yale Law Journal published a fascinating article by Cass R. Sunstein titled “Deliberative Trouble? Why Groups Go...
Dalekriders of Pern and other Daleks
I think it was during the Hugo nomination period that I came across some links to the art of Kathleen...
Fun webcomic: Nimona
Nimona, by Noelle Stevenson, is a webcomic about arch-villain Lord Ballister Blackheart and his new sidekick, a shapeshifting girl named...
Self-improvement updates
It's been seven weeks since my “Forward motion” post about various largely unplanned self-improvement projects that I had embarked on....
Diversions
This week has been kinda stressful. I'm extremely conflict-averse, and in a normal week I might have minor conflicts with...
How to help fix the “American novelists” problem on Wikipedia
The “American novelists” category on Wikipedia is apparently theoretically supposed to be just a list of subcategories, but it currently...
Links: Marriage equality on the margins
Here are some links more or less about the effects of same-sex marriage on various marginalized people. I'm going to...
Echo’s Children albums: listen free online!
I'm delighted to see that all four Echo's Children albums are now available on Bandcamp, which means that you can...
My father’s FBI file
As I noted a month ago, last August I filed a Freedom of Information request to get a copy of...
My favorite April Fool’s items
My favorite April Fool's items this year were some great products from Think Geek: Play-Doh 3D Printer Dharma Initiative Alarm...
Zombie breaths
I was driving back from Uvas Canyon County Park this evening and found myself behind an SUV that had a...