decorabilia

Turn any 4/4 song into a swing tune with a little programming magic. [via Cory Doctorow ]

If you're not ready for the coming apocalypse--no matter which form it takes-- maybe you don't watch enough movies.

Now that I have a wire brush two-week beard, I am constantly reminded of this classic Stranger feature on Robin Pecknold of the post-post-...

The University of Washington has a new research facility dedicated to cracking open the skulls of children and revealing the gooey knowledge...

Martin Gardner has passed away at the age of 95. I can still remember the first time I read Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science , on...

Ten days, one carry-on. I'd tried the rolling-'em-up trick before, but never so comprehensively. And the folding-over-the-other-c...

A fabulizing triptych. Gerald Posner, compulsive plagiarist . Posner has offered a variety of defenses. He apologized after Shafer's sto...

Baby sloths!

It's been a little over a week since To Beard or Not To Beard began. Seems appropriate to celebrate the occasion with a brand new tack...

Capital's debate team is holding my beard hostage. If they can raise at least a hundred dollars next week, I can't shave it. Repe...

Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings . Enjoy.

A creativity / storytelling / extemporaneous speaking exercise. Take your class on a tour of your school. The catch: they're the tour g...

Stephen Hawking says that time travel into the past is practically impossible. Fair enough. How about traveling into the future? If we wan...

Should law enforcement be allowed to expand DNA databases to include non-felons? One of the central questions of the latest NFL resolution ...

The NFL national tournament Lincoln-Douglas debate topic for 2010 has been released: Resolved: Compulsory inclusion of non-felons' DNA i...

All's quiet around these parts, a little patch of doldrums in an otherwise turbulent universe. Why I'm not blogging muchly: 1. Capi...

Because I am your arbiter of taste. In no particular order. 1. Life on Mars ( the British import ). Snappy humor mixed with non-sappy dram...

Jason Kuznicki on the War on Drugs : Considered as a whole, the War on Drugs is the single worst violation of liberty perpetrated by our gov...

Back when the National Forensic League was considering the use of computers in Debate, I wrote: In a 5-3-1 vote, the Council decided to all...

1. Most of what you know is wrong. 2. Even what's right is only mostly right. 3. Part of the problem is the residue of half-facts and ps...