Read it. My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

Read it. SteamPunk for the masses. Just add some brass fittings, and you’re all set.

Read it. Sure, it’s primitive, but so was the telephone and the radio when they started.

Read it.

Watch it. Say what you will about Apple, they do a dynamite commercial.

Read it. And laugh.

Read it. Well, this is America — suing people is a legitimate leisure time activity when there’s nothing on TV and you’ve seen all the movies at the mall.

Read it. Many years, kid, many years.

Read it. Let’s hear it for sprawl.

Have you noticed how progs always make up derogatory names for people doing what they want to rather than what the progs want?

Read it. In case you were wondering. I know I was.

Read it. Now you can know faster than ever that you’re abnormal. Enjoy.

Read it. Insight into the souls of those who read the New York Times.

Read it. This is kinda cool. YUCK YUCK YUCK

Read it. I have this book, and I highly recommend it.

Although rather dated by now, it still has a great deal of cultural relevance.

Read it. Sports gets more and more serious.

Read it. Not only funny but it expresses a very serious truth.

Read it. Oh, I like this one.

Read it. This is fascinating. Even with a tofu-brained beauty contestant, we have the technology.

Read it. I’ll bet you didn’t know that there were “ketchup economists”.

Read it. White & nerdy.

Read it. Now this is downright clever.

Read it. I can see multiple garage-studio versions of “Lord of the Rings” in my future.

Read it. Be prepared to laugh.

Read it. I can see AlGore as an “early adopter” of this technology.

Read it. The hits just keep on comin’.

Read it. Wait until they get sued because it isn’t organic and causes ADHD in laboratory rats. Oh, and it probably causes global warming, too. If we can only connect it to the Iraq war, we’ll be home free.

Read it. Canadians would be all right if they just got in touch with their inner American.

Read it. Somehow that doesn’t surprise me. (And they wanted to send this chick into space? Are there no shrinks on NASA’s staff?)

Read it. Irony comes to the immigration situation.

Read it. Reminds me of an old filk — “You can make a mainframe from the things you find at home.”

Read it. And try to think of another country’s army in which this could possibly take place.

Read it. And the hits just keep on comin’….

I blame John Scalzi.

Engadget. Now, this is just cool.

FuturePundit.

This book was originally published by Wiley and then “depublished” when they caved to political pressure. Unfortunately for the People of the Crust, it’s now available for free on the web. Jerry Pournelle points out that, with the Internet, the “gatekeepers” now have a gate to a hunk of Swiss cheese. This is a great time to be alive.

I have in front of me a 2-pound bag of Peanut M&Ms. On the back of the bag is a panel labelled “Nutrition Facts”. Can you imagine a more useless thing to have on the back of a 2-pound bag of Peanut M&Ms than “Nutrition Facts”? I can’t.

NYT. Unfortunately, it’s more difficult to update a bridge than a software package.

Engadget. This is way cool.

LanguageLog. I swear, these guys have more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.

NYT. I don’t know, I find this charming and silly at the same time. But it certainly fits my preconceived notions about Italians. Is that a bad thing? Hard to say.

NYT. Of course, being an author has always been more about ego than money.

LanguageLog. The new hero’s journey: A tale of curse and recurse.

NYT. I have a hard time feeling sympathetic.

“I know people looking in from the outside will ask why someone like me keeps working so hard,” Mr. Steger says. “But a few million doesn’t go as far as it used to.

I guess not.

Engadget. One day CIC will occupy the entire 03 level, and everybody will spend his day in the dark.

LGF. Truly, the realm of politics has some strange denizens. (How do you become a denizen of the realm of politics? By being unnaturalized, of course.)

Do you have trouble distinguishing (by appearance) Hillary Clinton and Barbara Walters? I do.

LanguageLog. A timely reminder that things are not always as they seem.

Engadget. Perhaps Global Warming will solve our energy crisis. AlGore would have a heart attack, and die.

LanguageLog. Them’s fightin’ words in these parts, pardner.