Category: General

Meryl pointed out In2Books, a program to pair young readers with adult pen pals which began in the Washington, D. C., schools. The adult reads the same book the...

Country Walkers sells walking tours that for some reason remind me of the picnic scene outside Florence in A Room with a View. From her feet the ground sloped s...

The Big Sister made this doll yesterday.

Maybe the question to ask is not did a four-year-old paint these, but why do people pay so much for abstract works? I’m quite confident that those paintin...

The Sisters were discussing theology the other day. The Church sent us an offering envelope for Easter, along with the mass schedule for Holy Week. I’ve b...

Jim McGee points to a nice set of lists of passwords not to use. Another set is available at dictionary.com, though Answers.com‘s might be easier to refer...

In the Constitution’s Commerce clause, the Congress is granted the power To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with...

This raised quite a few interesting consumer technology questions. Ordinarily, for example, one needs a credit card (and good credit) to secure a cell phone. &#...

“Look Who’s Talking,” by Howard Rheingold (Wired, vol. 7, no. 01, January 1999), is a very interesting piece on the response of the Amish to t...

When I was reading 1901, I was struck by the frequent use of “indeed.” It was anachronistic. Indeed, the word sticks out like a sore thumb in contem...

Bill Bumgarner wrote Since giving away my iPod Shuffle to my wife a few weeks ago, I have had need of a portable storage device. Never before, but now I do. Go ...

Where I’ve lived has informed what I like in a place. Providence Forge, Virginia Loveland, Ohio Monterey, Virginia Richmond, Virginia Annapolis, Maryland ...

The last time we went car shopping, the most annoying use of the option package was Ford‘s. Certain colors were only available with the V8 and towing pack...

I have a simple test for determining the quality of a vendor. Of course, I have no budget, and few listen to me, so my test does not see much use. But if you wo...

My brother gave us a bottle of Château Morrisette‘s Sweet Mountain Laurel for Christmas. I like this: it tastes of Concord grapes. A unique and refreshin...

A commentator on NPR tells us what word we should use instead of jihad.

Have you noticed that realtor websites do not provide you with the most important piece of information about a property, the location? This is the hook to get t...

Somewhere in Chicago, there’s a big wirelessed mall. More than 18,000 daily visitors who frequent the restaurants, food court, train station, retail store...

Scanning a large disk for virii takes a lot of time and resources, often in an impolite manner. Here’s a hypothetical question that the supergeniuses at t...

Last Friday, Rick pointed me to a paper estimating the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow. This is a very important question, and deserves respectful consi...