Everyone is blogging-wide on this, so I’m obliged to make note of this. One part reality television and many parts Sartre, Kafka, The Prisoner, and good old-fashioned social paranoia, Mafia has become the parlor game of choice in the convention … Continue reading →

PopMatters’ top 10 nicely summarizes the speculation surrounding 9/11, the War On Terrorism, and the Secret War On The Public. The hit parade goes… Great Game in the Caspian Sea The Afghanistan/Enron Connection The Magic Passport Theory Hijacker Oddities I … Continue reading →

Jenny points out a couple of cool things: A RSS feed for the excellent Astronomy Picture of the Day and the GeoURL ICBM Address Server

Because you can’t have enough tarot decks, ladies and gentlemen – the Peanuts Tarot Deck. [via Boing Boing]

Record numbers of American “refugees” are seeking asylum in Canada. [via FARK]

Just dropped a pile of stuff on eBay over the weekend. Several Apple “Think Different” posters and a big pile of Hellblazer and Swamp Thing comics.

Teresa Hayden points out a thread on The Straight Dope message board. Someone asked how Lord Of The Rings would read if it was written by Ernest Hemingway and the insanity starts from there. An example: “Choose life. Choose a … Continue reading →

Google picks me up in the oddest places… In the ReadMe file for the Ricochet spam reporting agent. Funny thing here is that it’s a way old friends.net address from when Xplain still had the domain. Now friends.net is an … Continue reading →

John Robb’s suggestion about showing off Segways at theme parks and state fairs reminds me about the first time I ever saw a home computer. I think it was 1978 (so I would have been 12 years old) and my … Continue reading →

Still feeling sucker-punched from the news about Joe Strummer yesterday. *sigh*. Only saw The Clash once back in the day when they opened up for The Who in 1982 (the bill should have been reversed) and Joe later on the … Continue reading →