A while back, Slashdot solicited questions that they would forward to Neal Stephenson (of Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash, Diamond Age, The Baroque Cycle, etc. fame). They’ve posted his responses and, as always seems to be the case with Stephenson, the results…
If you are at all interested in human interface design and the possibilities for collaborative work made possible by the Internet, I would highly recommend that you take a look at the Croquet Project. I can’t really do the concept…
The crew at work has been putting together a little two-day demo for VIPs inside our company for a while and, in pursuit of making our offices look presentable and even, dare I say it, corporate, they’ve been doing various…
It seems the cameras just can’t get enough of this guy! It’s not so much a “Funny, Ha-Ha” as it is a “Funny, Uh-Oh”. What Mary Beth Cahill should be saying right now: “Who let him near a soccer ball…
My wife tipped me off to the fact that Broadway.com is listing Monty Python’s “Spamalot”, the Broadway musical adaptation of The Holy Grail. Needless to say, I’m quite looking forward to it and shall be assembling the requisite number of…
Just a few random samplings of various stories I took note of over the weekend. The head of UN peacekeepers in Haiti is blaming John Kerry for much of the current unrest. Wowsers. It seems as if quite a bit…
I thought this one was a clear victory for Bush, which seems to defy all manner of Conventional Wisdom in its implications. Bush was supposed to be strongest on national defense, weakest on domestic policy, while John Kerry was supposed…
According to this article: Researchers at Purdue University have developed a method that will enable authorities to trace documents to specific printers, a technique law-enforcement agencies could use to investigate counterfeiting, forgeries and homeland security matters. I would be very,…
If you haven’t yet seen the extremely entertaining Fellowship 9/11, a funny send-up of Michael Moore’s execrable Fahrenheit 9/11, then I suggest you do so, immediately.
Once again, I’m disgusted at the depths to which some on the Left have sunk to, this time comparing Bush voters to Special Olympians (a comparison that is at once as hideous to the mentally handicapped as it is to…
