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Over the past few days I’ve seen references to The Long Tail, a nondescript title which reminds me of a rat, but until reading Gordon Weakliem‘s com...

Unlike other winter brews, Sierra Nevada‘s Celebration Ale is hoppy. Good stuff.

Humans have always changed their environment, some groups more than others. The Geological Survey‘s Temporal Urban Mapping program shows changes in the ur...

I was off-line yesterday because of a Very Important Thing: the Big Sister played a lamb in the St. John’s Playgroup’s Christmas pageant. In the int...

A footnote in By the Sword remarks, By 1680 members of the Green Ribbon Club — who defended Parliament and Protestantism — were called Whigs, a shor...

Well, I came in fifth in a field of 11. The thing about fencing is that competition is very personal, and not entirely predictable: I lost to a young woman whom...

When people post blog entries these days, they tend to notify a number of public services which keep a list of recently changed blogs. The first was weblogs.com...

That Will is an extremely common word, even when paired with Cox, with 16,400,000 results. Hey, if Alan Cox and Wonkette can reach the same page as Cox Communic...

The Little Sister: I wanna caterpillar.

In which we learn that customer service is disposable.

Zimran cracks me up with his comments on the Becker-Posner blog. Posner is also, single handedly, the most influential academic department on the planet. Meanwh...

D is out with the crowd at a cookie party, so I’m hanging out with my naggregator and snacks. To be more precise, I have the Saranac 12 Beers of Christmas...

Phil Windley points to the University of Washington‘s pubcookie project, an attempt at single sign-on for web applications. As it happens, they’ve c...

Reuters, the reliable source which reported Arafat dead a week early, reports that consolidation in the cellular space continues, as Sprint may buy Nextel.

Now that Dan Rather and Tom Brokaw have retired, are David Letterman and that Peter Jennings guy sufficient for the broadcast networks to retain their frequency...

The Perl Advent Calendar contains lots of useful little modules pulled from the depths of CPAN. Yesterday, this was Proc::Daemon, a handy little utility class t...

parts is parts

The Whatever-the-name-of-this-Fencing-Club-is-which-fences-at-Sycamore-Park-in-Carmel Fencing Club will have its club tournament on Sunday, December 12, 2004, a...

via John Robb, we learn that Eliot Spitzer does his own writing. How’s that for a gubernatorial candidate?