Read it. This is a great idea.

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

Read it. A review of the new Nicholas Cage “National Treasure” movie.

A long, long way from “Valley Girl”, eh?

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

Read it. It’s not waterboarding, but it’s about as close as a civilian can get.

Read it. Good luck to ’em, I say. Of course, we used to call those “sails”.

Read it. In case you didn’t have enough to worry about already.

Read it. While AlGore postures and the socialists attempt to return to a pre-industrial world, there are some who are actually trying to solve the problem.

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Read it. More preposition week at Language Log.

Read it. It’s apparently preposition week at Language Log.

Read it. This would be a useful thing. But a mug of hot tea or cocoa is just as effective and a lot more social.

Read it. I’m not sure that having something so fargin cold in my mouth is much better, but choice is good.

Read it. Apparently not.

Read it. This is a great idea. I’m surprised that the government actually did it.

I’m even more surprised that there was any mention of it in the Washington Post.

Read it. These would be pretty useful, once Congress figures out how to subsidize it.

Read it. Tell the truth: It’s weird shit like this that keeps you comin’ back, ain’t it?

Read it. And buy a book.

Read it. This could be very important.

Read it. An entertaining grammatical oddity. The comic strip is pretty funny, too.

(For those who went to public schools, the phrase “and that <sentence>” ought to be “and the fact that <sentence>”. )

Read it. Quite a bit, it would seem.

Read it. I don’t care who you are, that’s funny.

Read it. No home should be without its own network server.

Read it. The second part of David Friedman’s disquisition on home-schooling his kids. Thinking of educating your child outside of a government factory school? We have the technology.

David Friedman is always worth reading.

Read it. That’s if you care at all. Personally I have no plans to take advice from ABC News, no matter what the subject, but that’s just me.

Read it. If it weren’t for the government, the enviro-wackos, and certain special interest groups, these would be supplying our electricity, our air and water would be a lot cleaner, and the Arabs would be back herding goats.

Take whatever action you think is appropriate.

Read it. We are on the verge of a new and highly exciting era.

Read it. Excellent insight. In short supply these days.

Read it. Just in case you decide to run for President some day.

Read it. We all want one, of course.

Read it. Time to hit the supplements section again.

Read it. Get in touch with the inner you.

Read it. Not a bad idea.

Read it. No niche too big, no cranny too small.

Read it. And then you inject the paintballs with butyric acid….

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The Iowa landscape is a patchwork of corn and soybean monocultures, with about as much biodiversity as a bachelor’s refrigerator.

Now there’s an image you won’t get out of your head very soon.

And corn plays a starring, and nefarious, role in a recent book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, in which author Michael Pollan reveals that, at the molecular level, Americans have ingested so many corn-derived substances that we are essentially walking corn chips.

And what’s so bad about that? (Read the book, by the way; it’s fun.)

Read it. I knew it was good for something.

Highly recommended.

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

Read it. I’m from Indiana, so I don’t have an accent — accents are what Other People have. Don’t believe me? Listen to the evening news. They all talk like us.

Read it. You’ll be glad you did.

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Read it. And here I thought it was the wrinkles that did it. So much for nip/tuck.

Read it. I could use one of these.

Read it. Warning: Only for grammar geeks or those raised by nuns. You know who you are.

Read it. So just take the endorphins and skip the exercise. Why sweat when you don’t have to?

Cringely is on the case.