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Let’s make it mandatory for public officials.

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Interesting times.

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Not sure what this means, but I’m sure it’s significant.

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The cubicle has its roots in the cybernetic school of thought that arose in the middle of the last century. The meaning of “cybernetics” has largely been swept up in the exuberant imagery of movies and commercials with their glowing rivers of ones and zeros flowing through the air. However, cybernetics has an older and deeper history, predating both the personal computer and the cubicle. Fred Turner’s recent book, From Counterculture to Cyberculture, shows how the cybernetic idea of seeing the world in terms of information flows grew out of government-sponsored World War II military research and into the information technology industry of Silicon Valley. In the 1960s and 1970s, cybernetic ideas brought groups of military-funded computer researchers together with Deadheads, radical environmentalists, and art communards in the San Francisco Bay area. This collection of long-haired eccentrics began to think of everything from bee behavior to dance parties to computer programming as information processes. In doing so, they liberated the images of information and the computer from the clutches of the military-industrial complex, joining them instead to a new cybernetic-counterculture vision of egalitarianism, communal networks, and democratic “people power.”

Go to church.

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One of these babies can save your life….

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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This is an excellent program, and slightly nicer to use than Google docs.

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And rightly so.

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Living the libertarian dream.

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More to the point, His CD collection?

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The third theme is a changing balance between limbic/subcortical and frontal lobe functions that extends well into young adulthood as different cognitive and emotional systems mature at different rates. The cognitive and behavioral changes taking place during adolescence may be understood from the perspective of increased “executive” functioning, a term encompassing a broad array of abilities, including attention, response inhibition, regulation of emotion, organization and long-range planning.

This is why teens ought not to be allowed to do anything significant — like drive, vote, or touch someone of the opposite sex — without adult supervision.

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Whoa. The Washington Post decrying government spending? Hell has officially frozen over.

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When you think about it, that makes a lot of sense.

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All this is good news, meaning it’s not reported.

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Well, it’s more of a psychological barrier than anything else, but I suppose they have to spend their money on something.

Of course, now, rig it up to a terawatt laser that fires if the barrier is breached — well, that’s a car-corpse of a different color. So to speak.

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Why do the Japanese invent all of the cool stuff?

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It was Harlan Ellison about a decade ago.
He said, “Hey. Gaiman. What’s with the stubble? Every time I see you, you’re stubbly. What is it? Some kind of English fashion statement?”
“Not really.”
“Well? Don’t they have razors in England for Chrissakes?”
“If you must know, I don’t like shaving because I have a really tough beard and sensitive skin. So by the time I’ve finished shaving I’ve usually scraped my face a bit. So I do it as little as possible.”
“Oh.” He paused. “I’ve got that too. What you do is, you rub your stubble with hair conditioner. Leave it a couple of minutes, then wash it off. Then shave normally. Makes it really easy to shave. No scraping.”
I tried it. It works like a charm. Best advice from a writer I’ve ever received.

Neil Gaiman is the most delightful human being now alive.

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This will make your Y chromosome sit up and bark like a dog.

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Researchers have built the world’s smallest transistor – one atom thick and 10 atoms wide – out of a material that could one day replace silicon.

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I like it.

I love it.

I want some more of it.

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While technology can empower oppression, it can also empower resistance to oppression.  Evil things fear the light.

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Perhaps that explains Michael Moore.

Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post actually comes down on the right side of an issue.

Hell has now officially frozen over.

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I may have to vote for McCain after all.

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Well, I’ve always thought so.

But that’s me.

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Unfortunately, a lot of doctors won’t take on a new patient if they don’t handle that patient’s insurance company. I had that happen to me with two different specialists recommended by my primary care physician.

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I’ve always found it curious that rich people are so eager to give money to people who denounce them.

Maybe they have a cognitive disconnect that allows them to say, ‘Well, they’re not talking about me, it’s those other rich people — the swine — that are being complained about.’

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Old people rock … when we can find our glasses.

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Now that’s a stretch.

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It’s more interesting than you might suspect.

Loading up an empty elevator car with discarded Christmas trees, pressing the button for the top floor, then throwing in a match, so that by the time the car reaches the top it is ablaze with heat so intense that the alloy (called “babbitt”) connecting the cables to the car melts, and the car, a fireball now, plunges into the pit: this practice, apparently popular in New York City housing projects, is inadvisable.

Of course, this is the type of article you’d only find in the New Yorker.

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That explains most primaries.

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A publication tailor-made for White People.

It’s the kind of arty, cheeky, ironic magazine that just published a story called “Sweat Sock: The Other White Meat.”

There you have it: “arty”, “cheeky”, “ironic”. The White People trifecta.

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It will be interesting to see who wins: Bill Cosby or Jeremiah Wright.

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Don’t say we never put useful stuff in here.

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And about time, too.

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