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Well, be prepared, that’s what I always say….

Tim Kidwell does an English usage rant.

If you’re like me, at the end of the day you’re tired. You’re not looking for a fight, but you’ll stand your ground if you think you’re being played. And that’s precisely the limit I’ve reached with this sprig of verbal parsley.

Fun to see such a thing in a major publication. If you can only afford one newspaper, the Wall Street Journal is the one to get.

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The Obama administration will proceed with a Bush-era plan to use National Security Agency assistance in screening government computer traffic on private-sector networks, with AT&T as the likely test site, according to three current and former government officials.

I’m sure glad we re-elected Bush. That Obama guy sounded pretty scary.

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So there.

Harry Stein has a new book out.

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Turns Bram Stoker’s classic into a blog. There is nothing new under the sun.

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The Hog confronts the information revolution.

I have a Facebook account; don’t ask me why. I log in about once a month. Facebook has weird features called “apps” that help people annoy each other. One is called “Speed Date.” I do not understand how it works, but somehow I got signed up for it, and it likes to send me possible matches in the Miami area.

You can probably imagine how eager I am to make use of this information. If there is anything worse than an unsuitable woman you choose for yourself because you have no judgment, it’s an unsuitable woman a computer chooses for you, based on variables chosen at random, by the kind of well-adjusted males who work in the IT industry.

It’s nice to sort of get to know people online, but the truth is, I don’t care what movies you like or whether your imaginary zombie can beat up my imaginary zombie. And I find it a little creepy when another man “Superpokes” me.

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And why not?

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Be the first on your block to make your own pipe organ … out of wood.

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I have no idea whether — or how — this actually works, but it looks really cool.

John Derbyshire, Patron Saint of Dyspepsia, offers a look at the lighter side of pessimism.

That’s right, stationery with an ‘e’. (The difference was immortalized, at least in England, on one of those vulgar comic postcards George Orwell wrote a famous essay about. A gorgeous female store assistant is being addressed by a callow-looking young man. He: “Excuse me, Miss, do you keep stationery?” She: “Well, sometimes I wriggle a bit.”) Stationery! I love the stuff. Paper, pens, notepads, folders, envelopes, markers, erasers, staples, push pins, paper clips, bulldog clips, poster board, display board, foam board, desk furniture … A stationery store is to me … what? Aladdin’s cave? Pah! — What did Aladdin know? You can’t do anything with a mess of rubies.

Preach it, brother.

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By goading a sitting president into responding to his arguments on his terms, Dick Cheney won the contest with Barack Obama last week before either said a word. And his re-emergence onto the public square seems to be driving everybody nuts.

Fun is where you find it.

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You can’t make this stuff up.

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I am not making this up.

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Arnold Kling uncovers shocking news.

Since we know that the Obama Administration is centrist and pragmatic, the only inference to draw is that the Post has become a mouthpiece for the far right wing.

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When SteamPunk is just to johnny-come-lately.

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Truth is stranger than fiction, because fiction has to make sense.

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“Massive energy generating ship”? Dude, that’s what nuclear reactors are all about.

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It is truly astonishing the number of ways in which we’ve improved the lives of mice and rats.

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Actually, they’re pretty reasonable.

1. From now on, Nancy Pelosi has to wear a mask or ring a bell before she approaches a camera.

Who could say no to that?

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You know how it is — we’re frightened and appalled by the thought of unmanned killing machines, but if they must exist we really, really want to play with one.

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Change you can believe in! Or maybe not.

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I am not making this up. Fortunately, I’ve already had breakfast.

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Jerry Pournelle has been pushing this scheme for decades. It looks like it’s finally getting some mindshare.

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To make that clear, white people are paying $15-25 per session to hold their dog in the same position as other white people.  This is considered a relative bargain.

Authoress Lynn Viehl has some fun with hate mail.

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Think of it as evolution in action.

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In the future, we’ll be able to power up our devices with a wave of the hand, a short walk or via our heartbeats, said engineers from the Georgia Institute of Technology on Thursday.

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America, land of achievement.

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I have a little list, they never would be missed….

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I am not making this up.

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And here I was hoping it was Hockaday.

This contains a video of Neil’s appearance on the Colbert Report. It is well worth watching, and contains irrefutable proof that Neil is the world’s nicest and wittiest human being, and that Colbert is a pretentious putz.

Neil’s daughter is pretty cute, too, and looks much cuter without the braces.

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Which does not in the least reduce my compelling need to have one. “Where does he get those wonderful toys?”

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Oh, I so want one of these….

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Markets will arise whenever there is a willing buyer and a willing seller.

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It’s like YouTube is a giant filter for dumb criminals.

Think of it as evolution in action. Criminality plus narcissism is never a good combination.

Check out “PVP Online” on the right. A new story line starts on March 2.

For those of you who are familiar with WATCHMEN, this will be entertaining.

For those of you who aren’t, it will be terminally confusing. But that’s cool, too.

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it’s a moral imperative.

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We have the technology.

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Since all white people consider themselves to be “creative,” they are constantly in need of products and accessories that will allow them to capture their thoughts.  One of the more popular  products in recent years has been the Moleskine notebook.

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This is just cute.

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It is, however, a work of art.