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The promise is simple: faster, easier. The delivery mechanism is impressive: touch-screen, laser, plenty of glass and plastic, receipt pump...

Finally, the perfect news item [link broken]. Update 8/16/2007: Maybe no news really is good news. I'll try to dredge Google and figur...

Try to explain the persistence of irrational behavior, and you're likely to end up a gibbering fool from anger. If people only knew t...

Quick--think back to 1977. How old were you? Were you even alive then? I wasn't. In 1977, the San Francisco 49ers suffered a shutout ...

...unless your flesh has decayed in the course of minutes thanks to a mysterious, possibly viral, ailment that kills and then reawakens you ...

I guiltily read Ed Brayton's dooooooooooooom piece, knowing that I hadn't yet installed Service Pack 2, thus placing the security o...

"Rescue rats" used to mean rodents saved in animal shelters . Not anymore . Rats equipped with radios that transmit their brainwa...

As Old Media continues to either beat down or fawn over New Media, let's stop and think for a moment: Bloggers don't do original r...

Go ahead and start with the Popeye jokes.

A little while ago I wrote , "Who cares what our WASL scores are, if we're losing students?" Turns out we're losing them a...

After reading and thinking about Intelligent Design and peer review and Christianity and gay rights , I stumbled across this article by Jim...

Al Mohler: prevaricating hack . If you haven't been following the controversy, read up on it here . The Readers Digest condensed versio...

Newscientist claims that India has launched the first satellite used solely to educate . Millions of illiterate people in remote, rural Indi...

Whilst bloggers cry victory over CBS and ready to crash the gates of the Old Media, Ben Wasserstein pulls up the drawbridge : In the days t...

Ed Brayton points us to this story of a young woman purportedly arrested, without cause or warrant, and held in a detention center at Pier...

... that Ben Dougherty would start at quarterback for a historically black college . Dougherty qb'd for Elma High School, my alma mater...

I know I'm not the first to draw the connection between crappy aesthetics and crappy political philosophy. (I'd even scare up a lin...

Coldstone Creamery . They make--no, shape--no, craft--superb ice cream combinations. Their portions are gluttonously large. Their shops ar...

Everyone else out there is already calling the election, though we still have fifty fun-packed days before the rumpus even starts. So here...

Language is access to power, as I've stated before . Now, more than ever, voting resembles a literacy test. Thanks to a recent court...