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I think it's bizarre that the word "forb" isn't in more widespread use. It seems like it would be frequently...

Chuck Rothman (author of "Occurrence at Arroyo de Buho Bridge") has a page about his grandfather's friendship with Einstein, including...

A cute style guide for technical writers. After brief lessons in style, grammar, and technical terms, it attempts (only partly...

I mentioned the other day that Salon is moving to a subscription model; what I didn't know when I wrote...

According to Magnum-Opus, prolific composers Dr.Sonique and Jon Drummond wrote an enormous number of very brief diatonic "melody modules" back...

I meant to mention this morning that apparently there's a new academic controversy in the world of biological taxonomy. There's...

Somehow I missed this (or else I've just forgotten I knew about it): there was a Gallup poll recently which...

Hee hee. Tired out from a long day of using your PDA? Now there's a Springboard module for the Visor...

Completely unrelated to the previous entry, Susan G. pointed me to the "I Can Eat Glass Project" page, which explains...

One of the cool things about internationalizing a piece of software (making it so that its interface can be easily...

Peter Gabriel's "Games Without Frontiers" came on while I was listening to Launchcast, and I thought, What exactly is the...