I've noticed on many occasions that my edits-per-paragraph are generally much higher in the opening two or three paragraphs of...
Interesting article at Slate about people who want to have amputations, some of whom are turned on by amputees. I...
A couple weeks ago, we had a surprisingly long run of almost entirely stories by authors who hadn't sent us...
At Chucklehound Entertainment, you can make your own movie using the Box Office Oracle. Pick some genres, some actors and...
Two women in their 60s or so, talking in the frozen foods section of the grocery store here in California:...
There's an email going around that says that if you go to Google and type in "weapons of mass destruction"...
Scott McCloud is doing a micropayment experiment: a Flash-based web comic called "The Right Number," which you can read the...
Popular Mechanics ran an article six months ago about the attempts of some forensic anthropologists to reconstruct the face of...
I see no reason not to use a journal as, among other things, a commonplace book. So I'll quote two...
Another entry in an irregular series. skirl and swirl. Possibly because it sounds a little like swirl and a little...
(I had intended to be out and about by now, but sadly, the train that Mary Anne was on broke...
The members of my immediate group at work have known for a while that I don't drink alcohol, don't usually...