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Present Face

2012-05-19T09:56:00-04:00

Death knell of the death penalty?

2012-05-15T17:16:00-04:00

Tor Gets a Clue

2012-04-24T22:01:00-04:00

Just a quick note that Tor, a genre-heavy imprint of Macmillan, will start releasing their titles without DRM. As someone who has books that are locked into Kindle, iBooks, and even the Nook, this is fantastic news. A good take on this is available from Charlie Stross.

Eternal Copywrite: A modest Proposal

2012-02-20T22:57:00-05:00

Eternal Copywrite is the only way we can possibly incentivize creative types to actually produce works of art.

Obviously.

Microsoft in the concert ticket selling business

2011-10-21T21:23:13-04:00

Hilarious.

It's not a vast, left-wing conspiracy

2011-10-12T08:28:13-04:00

We’re not making it up.

Two tragic things

2011-10-04T23:52:06-04:00

Here’s one and here’s another.

Go out and be less of a jerk to each other.

Infinite elephants

2011-09-27T09:32:53-04:00

Math is cool!

Mariano Rivera

2011-09-20T08:16:49-04:00

To quote Charlie Daniels, he’s best there ever was. And, he’s still going…

Autism in a grown-up world

2011-09-18T14:24:04-04:00

Heart breaking and wonderful.

The McGurk Effect

2011-09-18T12:09:45-04:00

Amazing. An illusion that works even if you know how it works. Freaky. And another reason to not trust eye witnesses!

Extreme Schooling

2011-09-17T15:56:04-04:00

In Russia. Growing up, I wanted to do something like this with my kids, and Brenda and I have talked about living abroad for a year or two. But it’s a hard thing, and it took a lot of courage for Clifford Levy and his wife to actually do.

Watch the video, too.

Wonderfully bad analogies

2011-09-16T12:17:40-04:00

I’ve seen this around plenty of times before, always credited to unintentionally bad high school students. Well, let’s set the record straight. It was actually a contest by the Washington Post. All the originals are here. And I think they’re even funnier, knowing (as I always figured before) that someone came up with them deliberately.

Everytime I think they can't sink lower

2011-09-15T21:07:48-04:00

They prove me wrong.

ifttt

2011-09-15T19:22:37-04:00

This website is the future. And I love living in it.

Ultimate Batting Practice

2011-08-15T09:41:19-04:00

Insane!

Star Wars Twitter

2011-07-30T14:02:49-04:00

Twitter feeds of Episode IV. Pretty funny.

Oslo, Muslims, and Christianity

2011-07-26T13:11:29-04:00

Too sad to even be funny.

Herman Cain, Constitutional Scholar

2011-07-25T12:02:03-04:00

Or not.

The Name of the Wind

2011-07-24T23:25:57-04:00

It was brought to my attention that I had not formally recommended my favorite book of the last decade, The Name of the Wind, on this blog.

There. I’ve now recommended my favorite book of the last decade. The second book of the planned trilogy, The Wise Man’s Fear is already out, and it equally awesome. Both of them reward multiple readings with wow moments and insights, especially when you realize that Patrick Rothfuss actually knows what he’s doing. I don’t think there is a scene in either book that isn’t absolutely necessary for the plot, though you might not believe that the first time through. Anyway, go read it. Five stars, etc.