Anecdotal
I've now seen this quote twice in the past week. I like it a lot: The plural of anecdote is...
Rainbows
One nice thing about all the rain the Bay Area's been getting lately is that I hear the whole area,...
INS, ACLU
Most of you probably know by now that the INS recently detained a large number of people who showed up...
Lott and editing
Trent Lott has stepped down as Senate Republican leader, but is staying in the Senate. Seems like a reasonable outcome...
Cycles mod boundaries!
A long story derived from going through old papers last weekend: I was never cut out to be a math...
Endangered giant sea sparrows
Hee hee—Will points to a great correction/retraction from the New York Times: An article on Nov. 10 about animal rights...
Review: The Sum of All Fears
Watched The Sum of All Fears tonight. A surprisingly good movie, at least if you don't care about being true...
Civil rights
Nice Charles Krauthammer column in the Washington Post the other day. It calls for Trent Lott to step down, but...
Creative Commons
I've done more thinking about intellectual property this past week than for the previous few months, for a variety of...
Review: Gosford Park
Just saw Gosford Park. Good movie, but it had what seemed to me to be one big flaw, until I...
More on Firefly
I made some comment after seeing the Firefly premiere about how attractive some of the cast were. I'm not really...
Cleanup, etc.
Spent much of yesterday afternoon and evening embarking on phase 1 of the cleanup project: go through my boxes of...