Man, you just can't make this stuff up. 1 2 3. Saabs are born from jets; jets are born from McCain's forehead. Wisdom; Athena; Zeus-- truly, older than the...

[From my Metro Now column]Being a lit-journalist has its advantages. Among these is the daily receipt of a number of attractive-looking books from a multitude of...

Gotta feel sorry for right wing columnists and shock jocks. Well, I do anyway. Arguing a leftist/progressive viewpoint is easy. You just check out the facts of the case,...

If you are using a modern web analytics tool (tag based or log based) it is quite likely that it is using cookies for tracking purposes. In my conversations it is...

Here's where we were today: It's been a good time. Huge thanks to my relatives Christine and Norbert for offering us the place to stay in Whistler this week. This...

Kenley Collins is one of the designers competing in the season's Project Runway. Hailing from Florida, she now lives and designs in New York, where she's been working on...

Filed under: Convertibles, EuroWe've lost track of how many times we've watched Clarkson's track test of the Ariel Atom. It solidified the Atom's place in the track-day...

Impro (Keith Johnstone) has four chapters: Status; Spontaneity; Narrative Skills; Masks and Trance. The following are excerpts from the final chapter, Masks and Trance. ...

The Voice Thermostat measures forehead temperature with infrared in about 1 1/2 seconds. It displays it on its screen as well as speaking out. It also saves the last 30...

Filed under: Fan stuff, E3With E3 2008 coming to a welcomed end (it was fun while it lasted), so too comes the end of our official E308 X3F Sticker Gallery. During our...

Just a reminder…. we’re going to be at OSCON next week! If you’re going to be in Portland, make sure you come to Beerforge, Thursday night (the party we’re...

I found this today while going through some incredibly old emails... and it's brilliant. STOP CHAIN LETTERS!!!! Hello, my name is Basmati Kasaar. I am suffering from...

  So lemmie tell you about the (mostly healed, in this photograph) wound on my forehead. Kind of a funny story. Last week The Queen and I rearranged the...

Two weekends ago, the one with fireworks and grilling, Will Smith clinched its fifth Fourth of July with a number-one movie as Hancock raked in $66 million at the box...

Oliver paid off his Citibank platinum card on time, in full, every single month since 1989, but that didn't stop Citibank from slashing his credit limit when a minor...

As I blogged about a few years ago, I'm a first aider at work. We have quite a few qualified first aiders in our building, and there were practical reasons related to my...

The BBC has a Silverlight deep zoom app as part of the web coverage of the ‘Radio 1 Big Weekend’ event. (“Europe’s biggest free ticketed event” apparently.) If...

He was clumsy at almost everything that required any sort of physical exertion; litheness was an unattainable pursuit. Goddamn genes. Yet, there he stood, at the edge of...

Poking around InfoQ I discovered an announcement about the Advanced Message Queue Protocol. Its stated goal is to commoditize messaging—again. I have to smack my...