I saw Miss Congeniality the other day. Fun; it manages to do a surprisingly good (if not terribly realistic) job...
Huh. Looks like a small asteroid came awfully close to hitting Earth last week, and we didn't even know it...
The perils of working at home, Act 38 or so: Ring. Ring. Me: Hello, this is Jed. [brief pause, during...
The Indepundit reports that the NSA, taking a page from the SETI@home project, is launching a program to use idle...
Various people are making a big fuss about these Australian scientists teleporting a laser beam. As has been true for...
And while I'm being a Monday morning curmudgeon, I may as well pause to roll my eyes a little at...
Anyone who's wondered what the real distinction is between the genres of hard sf and romance should read Dr. Debra...
Yesterday at workshop, I saw a fantasy novel by Mary Gentle that contained orcs. I had to admit I was...
On the one hand, Robert Rodriguez wrote and directed Desperado, which I thought was stylish and nicely done. On the...
I just read Charles Stross's latest tour de force, "Halo," in the June Asimov's. Stross continues to amaze and impress...
Today is Father's Day; it wasn't 'til I read Mary Anne's journal entry today that it quite occurred to me...
I finally managed to hook up my PowerBook's DVD player to my TV. Works nicely. On the Spy Kids DVD...