We have a new comic strip, Stone Soup, thanks to the guys at Language Log. See the sidebar.

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

The problem with the whole “calorie restriction” thesis is that I don’t see any thin poor people living longer than fat rich people. But maybe it’s just me.

Read it. My kind of place.

Read it. As granny used to say, God never closes a door without opening a window.

Read it. Well, it makes a lot of sense. Why pay double for the same service?

Read it. Many’s the time I wish I had a laptop in a meeting….

Read it. And about time, too.

Read it. Not really surprising, but it’s good to know they’re starting to nail down the details.

Read it. This is an extremely interesting and useful idea.

Safire on language.

LanguageLog. If you don’t have any enemies, can you be said to exist? And could you possibly get a book contract?

Read it. And yet again the free market steps forward to supply the deficiencies in the “public sector”.

Read it. Paging Dr McCoy….

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

NYT. Another must-read.

Engadget. These look very interesting.

WT. I’ll refrain from making the obvious political joke here.

Engadget. Ah, Steve, Steve. When will you learn? No group of us is as smart as all of us.

Engadget. This would be useful in a number of contexts — I’m thinking of secure government facilities, right off the bat.

Engadget. This is just cool.

NYT. Well, some people collect stamps, some people DNA-map marijuana. Everybody’s got to have a hobby.

NYT. Interesting stuff, but I wonder about the firm and definite statements concerning something that happened millions of years ago. I’d be more confident if they were a little less confident.

LanguageLog. If that didn’t grab your attention, I don’t know what will.

FuturePundit. Just so you know.

Want to cut your transportation death rates much further? Don’t travel. This applies to both short and long trips and it also saves time. Schedule trip activities to do them in batches so that you make few trips. Take jobs closer to home or move closer to your job. Telecommute. Use teleconferencing and email rather than road trips.

Hear, hear!

FuturePundit.

FuturePundit. Well, that would explain why socialists act like arrested adolescents.

NYT. Everything you probably didn’t ever want to know about bridges.

NYT. Getting in touch with your fashionable-minority roots. The search for a ticket to a government affirmative-action program.

PowerLine. A good analysis of the Padilla case.

Safire on language. Always worth reading.

Engadget. This is an excellent idea.

Cringely. If that doesn’t get your attention, I don’t know what will.

Engadget. We seem to be making steady progress toward the day when we can take ground-up plastic waste and create new products to order in the home cheaply. Jane Jacobs was of opinion that modern trash would be an effective source of raw materials once technology advanced to the stage where we could take advantage of it, and she was confident that the day would come. As am I.

LanguageLog. Not that anyone in his right mind would look to George W Bush as a model for how to speak.

StrangeMaps. I can vouch for it.

Engadget. Not a bad idea these days.

Pogue. Speed the day….

Engadget. Pretty clever. Wonder if it would work in home or car air conditioners?

Read it. Hey, I thought there was something fishy about that age.

Researchers found that it takes men until they reach the age of 65 to start enjoying life as much as they did in their late-teens and early-20s.

Yeah, and I can’t wait.

LanguageLog. Confirmation that computer software is designed for computer software designers rather than real users.

Techdirt. My, that certainly surprises me. Doesn’t that surprise you?

LGF. An interesting question. I suspect we would find the answer entertaining.

Techdirt. Think of it as a Darwinian mechanism to weed out the stupid people. It reveals the inner lives of those who are inadequately socialized.

Much like this blog.

NYT. Let that be a lesson to us all.

Read it. No, it’s not about Congress this time.

NYT. Yeah, it’s called a green light. It’s not as efficient as it might be.

NYT. An excellent trend. I notice that most resorts are in blue states; very few people move to New York or L.A. in order to spend more quality time with their families.

Read it. All of the interesting information is in blogs nowadays, anyway.

Engadget. Oh, it’s lovely out in the woods tonight….

NYT. They, however, rarely make the news.