Two Views on Technological Change
Via Andrew Sullivan, I saw this delightful 1982 essay by James Fallows on the wonders of “The Electric Pen,” which reminded me of my own first gigantic “luggable” Compaq computer,…
Personal Musings
Not Very Bright
School ‘rejects boy called Hell’ Mr Hell claimed the priest refused to accept his son as Hell, and was told by the school’s head he had “made a rod for…
Only a Brit Could Write Such Clever Satire
Craig Brown’s column from the Daily Telegraph, “10 key facts about books on Diana,” is simply brilliant.
Have They Nothing Better to Do with Their Time?
Do you have a right to force people to introduce you to other people for romance? According to a Californian in search of love (and her lawyers) the answer is…
Surely, They Saw the Pun
Study: Female cheetahs sleep around.
Philosophers with Balls
Andrew Sullivan mentioned it, but I found a much better version on Google video: the Monty Python football matchup between the German philosophers and the Greek philosophers. Part I Part…
From the District of Columbia Department of Redundancy Department
It’s struck me for some time as, well, puzzling that the District of Columbia government requires taxi drivers to post notices in their cabs informing passengers that, District of Columbia…
Oh, Come On… (UPDATED)
I have no opinion about whether he’s a good fellow or not, but this is one of the most absurd reasons for a forced resignation from government I’ve seen: “State…
This and That
On Thursday I secured the rights to translate into Arabic the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics for Misbahalhurriyya.org (the Lamp of Liberty), a project that has great potential for the spread…