Fuzzy logic
Ben N. points to the Teddy Borg. Three bored MIT students took apart a teddy bear (including turning it inside...
A thousand ants
Got home just a couple minutes before the editorial meeting, only to discover a line of ants in my bathroom....
Sunday
I was going to post a note to the effect that the rest of Sunday was lovely too, not just...
One Ring Circus
One Ring Circus shows photos of a (mostly female) fan group who won the costume contest at this year's BayCon;...
Richard Curtis does it again
I've been hearing pretty good things about Love Actually, so when Mary Anne suggested it for this afternoon (as part...
Books and films
These items aren't related, but they almost appear to be: nj points to The Origins of Tolkien's Middle-Earth for Dummies....
Item item
A few assorted items: Steve Jobs interview in Rolling Stone, talking about the iTunes Music Store, music in general, Apple,...
Huge Internet Explorer security bug
Kent Brewster points out a recently discovered security bug in Internet Explorer (worse on Windows than on Mac, but still...
Good stuff day
Assorted good stuff today (by which I mean Friday, though posted a little too late for "today" to be officially...
Planetary intelligences and surprise twist endings
Just once, I'd like to see a story in which there's a planet-wide network of interlinked computational elements and/or life...
Local news
Two unrelated news items from yesterday: Here in Mountain View, AOL has laid off about 400 employees, including my friend...
Maynard Moose Tales!
Way back at Swarthmore, Josh introduced us to the marvels of Willy Claflin's Maynard Moose Tales, audio recordings of some...