Homo Sum:
humani nil a me alienum puto

Wow, finally some good news. I’ve been kind of avoid political news since that Black Day in November, because it was just too miserable to face, but here are some stories that show me a little ray of hope. (Of course, the cynic in me says this is just because the crush will be that [...]

I had my first slightly ridiculous bookstore trip of the year today, prompted by what amounts to a 40% off sale on in-stock hardcovers at my local megastore, and I thought some of you might be interested by what was in the basket.
First up were a couple of really heavy items:

The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes [...]

This Slashdot story lead me to check out Matt Blaze’s site. (I have geek jealousy of his domain name.)
Matt’s a CS prof who specializes in security issues, and in addition to the safecracking paper, there’s lots of other interesting bits on his pages. I suspect I will be reading stuff there for several days [...]

One of the areas of interest to me as a concerned liberal is the area of intellectual property–I am concerned about copyright extension and the erosion of the public domain, I’m concerned about software patents and the stifiling of innovation, and I’m perhaps most generally concerned about the way our various governments seem to put [...]

After that last post I need a happy.
And here is one. It appears that the same people responsible for that monster Complete Far Side collection that everyone was talking about–did anyone actually buy one?–are also producing another collection that I must own.
Details.
I have wanted this for years. The pricing is ridiculous, but hey, I have [...]

Look, I have always hated the idea of Ritalin.
Hearing Henry Rollins do his spoken word bit about his experiences with Ritalin just confirmed all my uninformed prejudices.
But, today I have seen something that I think is the most perfect, and most heart-rending, argument against it ever.
Make with the clickie and see for yourself.
The convincer.

So, I’ve been sitting on a few things for a while, as I was too busy to do much posting. You may see a bunch of slightly dated stuff appearing over the next few days as a consequence.
Anyway, for many years now I’ve thought of Tennessee as the spiritual home of American religious idiocy, dating [...]