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Peggy Monahan wanted a way to show support for the people who've been hurt without indicating support for a rash...

A cute little Java applet that lets you make ripples in water. Don't go there if you don't have Java....

Also from that same old Powell's newsletter (one of the few I didn't read when it arrived, which was like...

Just found a link to this in an old Powell's newsletter: Neil Gaiman on the genders of books, the evolution...

I haven't been paying attention to news since Saturday; I hadn't realized how far along things had gotten. War and...

An odd little piece (requires Flash) with the weirdest-lookin' cartoon sheep I've seen bounding across the screen in slow motion....

This is an HTMLized version of a letter I just wrote to Barbara Boxer, one of California's senators, who is...

There's an interesting piece on Slashdot about the likelihood of legislative reduction of freedoms in the US in the wake...

Annalee Newitz, apparently a friend of Charles Anders, has a piece at Salon titled "Sex with Stormtroopers," about going to...

Jon Carroll's column today is again particularly worth reading. His tag line for today is: "Looking into the face of...

Some images from a distance: A photo taken from the International Space Station on Tuesday, from about 250 miles up....

Salon posted an interesting article on terrorism last Tuesday, an interview with Michele Zanini, an expert on terrorism. (I almost...