The ignominy of heathenism
This is remarkable: the history of the "In God We Trust" motto on American currency. In 1861, a minister wrote...
Robot librarian
According to the New York Times, Johns Hopkins is developing "a robot that can move about inside a library and...
Defending our children
Good old Ashcroft: "The Justice Department will defend the ability of our nation's children to pledge allegiance to the American...
Mistaken notions of origins
I got too little sleep again last night, decided to work at home today, did a little bit here and...
Sensors indicate…
Some of the Canon PowerShot digital cameras now have an "Intelligent Orientation Sensor" built in. Wouldn't that be useful? Like...
Clarification and closure
The "British ambassador" thing in the previous entry is a line from Evita: On the 9th February 1935, in Buenos...
San Francisco day
Note: This entry contains spoilers for today's Giants/Padres baseball game. If you don't want to know how it went, come...
New Google game
I missed out on the Googlewhacking craze; it's probably passe by now. But a friend just introduced me to a...
More on UPS
Mary Anne told me she thinks that whether UPS will leave packages depends on how paranoid the local UPS...
Contributor copies
My contributor copies of Wet just arrived, and I'm totally thrilled. This is only the third time my fiction's appeared...
That way, part 2
The other day, in my lament for the lack of male homosexual attraction in sf (particularly as written by male...
Debauchery—or not
I've never been to a bachelor party before. Of course, by most people's standards I probably still haven't. There were...