It seems to me to be a bad design choice: when I get tired, my decisionmaking capacity is impaired, and...
I'm not sure what happened to my cassettes of Shoes for Industry! (the Best of the Firesign Theatre album). So...
A recent request reminded me that I've been meaning to post a link to this. It never occurred to me...
Ever wondered what would happen if you spun a CD up to 10,000 RPM or faster? I hadn't, but the...
I talk about this all the time in other contexts, but I don't seem to have done so here. There's...
A hundred years ago, the evil menacing people purported to lurk in every shadow were anarchists. By the 1920s, and...
Huh—some quick Googling turns up some interesting-looking pages: Soundproofing 101, which gives useful information for people who can tear their...
Left a note for Loud Car Guy late Sunday night, outside his apartment. Apologized for various bad behaviors on my...
Just watched Ali, a partly fictionalized biopic of Muhammad Ali starring Will Smith. Much of it is a fascinating collage...
Forgot to mention this, indirectly via a link supplied by metasilk (): Mars Express, the European Space Agency's mission to...
This afternoon I dropped by an open house at a condo. It was the gentlest possible getting-my-toes-wet; the place is...
In an upcoming online chat at scifi.com, L. Timmel Duchamp, Lynn Flewelling, Barbara Hambly, and John Kessel will "discuss the role...