Category: General

The Little Sister, the way that toddlers do, did this.

Thoughts,fleeing by,quickly lost,uncapturedby memory or ink,resting not.

I pointed out a link to Larry Staton the other day, and he pointed back at del.icio.us. Jon Udell has been talking about del.icio.us for some time, and I’ve s...

The Journal News reports that there’s a new reason to visit Brewster, New York. The gray structure sits opposite Kobacker’s Market and houses severa...

It’s almost that time of the year again, as Ken Jennings recently forgot when he lost on Jeopardy. The IRS has published the 2004 tax guide. In its histor...

One of the shows broadcast on WNYC is Now Hear This, on which John Flansburg, a Might Be Giant, opines on the music scene.

Amazon has introduced the Amazon Theater, a series of five original short films available exclusively at Amazon.com as a free gift to our customers. I’ve ...

Via Matt Mullenweg, I find that Google is a deaf user. Elliot Back, commenting on that article, suggests running audio files through voice recognition software,...

We’re thinking about getting the sisters kittens for Christmas. The Big Sister is carrying around her stuffed cat all the time now. She said, Watch me for...

Phil Windley asks, Have you ever listened to the Gillmor Gang and wished you comment on something that was said? I have that problem with Morning Edition and ot...

After finding “a life where TiVo has always existed,” *, Jenny asks, (why can’t I press a button to go back 7 seconds and hear what I just mis...

David Sucher, builder and author of City Comforts, likes to say that urban planning begins with the location of the parking lot, and regrets that more attention...

I haven’t noted a path to things I find recently, but I found a couple of interesting things on the road last night. From Jenny, The Shifted Librarian, to...

John Robb observes that the conflict in Ukraine appears to be over which trading bloc to join, then mentions the growth of the ASEAN bloc, after China joined. W...

c|net reports that Congress is threatening the nomenklatura again. The provision, authored by Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.), requires several major federal agencies, ...

That George Will is a funny fellow. What President Bush said three years ago was that he had “a sense of” Putin’s soul — formed by 15 ye...

George Will has some good questions for the nominee for Secretary of State. Aside from questions which highlight the tremendous irony of her needing to defend a...

Whaddyaknow, I’m already citing the CGI RFC, and it’s only been out a month. 🙂

Congress shall have the power To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; So, about this War on ...

In the course of holiday-related playtime and visitation, somehow the children broke the ceramic toilet paper dispenser. (Wear gloves if you have to remove your...