decorabilia

The Rule of [insert number here] Go to blog # ___ on your blogroll. Then go to blog # ___ on its blogroll. Do this ___ times. Count only l...

If you haven't noticed, I've rearranged the blogroll. Now it's in alphabetical order (paradoxically, a pretty random form of ca...

This is just too cool . (No, really, the pun wasn't intentional.)

Mark Olson has new digs . Check 'em out--but be sure to take off your shoes. Don't mess up the (screaming green!) carpet.

My brother and I have this long-running gag involving quills, fountain pens, "real" writing, not the scribbly-scrabbly junk that f...

Moments ago, in a brief fit of lucidity, I bought tickets to tonight's Sonics v. Timberwolves contest . I'm a closet fan, sneaking ...

Biologist Geek : Evolution--"macroevolution," if you want to call it that--is pretty much established fact . Skeptical Creationist...

Walking on Water: Reading, Writing, and Revolution Part memoir, part teaching manual, part writing guide, part Luddite screed, Walking on Wa...

Why is this news ? We conducted scavenger hunts in the aisles of the Longview Wal-Mart Supercenter when I attended LeTourneau University ov...

I can't decide: should I laugh my posterior off, or hyperventilate into a paper bag? How about both ?

Thanks to Mark Olson of Pseudo-Polymath for the link. Mark lists me underneath "Interesting MicroBlogs." I've got "mic...

When I was young, my folks used to read bedtime stories from Character Sketches , a book that gleans pithy lessons from animal tales juxtapo...

This past Sunday I got a rare opportunity to watch The Simpsons "live." The episode, which is swirling around the blogosphere, wa...

After skimming Brian Weatherson's too-massive list of recently posted philosophy papers from around the web, I came to the following co...

In which I provide links to people who are smarter and have far more free time than I. Carl Zimmer only has eyes for... eyes . ( Part II ...

I empathize with Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass . Fake news writes itself.

JIM ANDERSON CORRUGATED TIMES-DISPATCH WEEHAWKEN, NJ -- Inspired by Oklahoman Steve Dyer's unorthodox use of a New Testament parable , t...

JIM ANDERSON CORRUGATED TIMES-DISPATCH CHICAGO -- Having annihilated mainstream journalism, bloggers are moving on to different targets. So...

JIM ANDERSON CORRUGATED TIMES-DISPATCH OLYMPIA -- Residents of Ken Lake awoke this morning to trees, houses, cars, and fences draped in shim...

Sugar is sweet, and so is Splenda. And that makes the Sugar Association, well, bitter . Splenda, an artificial sweetener enjoying surging s...