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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...

This has nothing to do with anything; it's just amusing. URLs: Rabbit headgear Sheep headgear...

Thought it was worth pointing to Zak's page listing non-American news sources, as well as a huge (and slow-loading) page...

The first thing that made me cry Wednesday morning was a note of hope from novelist Liz Gilbert, printed in...

My favorite columnist, Jon Carroll, wrote a column on Wednesday that I thought was a good start toward a sane...

Provides some info on new airport-security regulations, though not as much detail as one might wish for. I poked around...

I'd be surprised if there's anyone on the Web who doesn't yet know that Amazon is waiving their usual fee...

Hard to get information out of a disaster area; the phone lines are always clogged. High tech to the rescue:...

Not quite ready to begin the deluge of information and discussion that I'm intending here, so I'll start by providing...