Roomie, colleague, and ex-traordinaire on Fox’s Red Eye.

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At various times in my life, I’ve found occasion to stop in the middle of a fairly routine task—researching a story, or laying out a publication—and ask myself: “How the fuck did anybody do this before computers/the Internet/etc.?” I have a feeling it won’t be long before that’s the common attitude among writers about Scrivener, […]

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Can you tell?

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Hat Tip: Laure. More Alexyss Tylor at her website and MySpace page. Bonus fact: The older woman sitting there during this little monologue? Her mom. Addendum: Hm, Ms. Tylor appears to have gotten the clip pulled from YouTube… rather inexplicably, since to judge by the Technorati curve over the last couple days, it was rapidly […]

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In a bizarre coincidence, two separate people in as many weeks have independently remarked to me that they recall feeling their first erotic stirrings when the watched the classic flick Labyrinth, starring David Bowie as the glam goblin king Jareth. (Or, as one of the aforementioned correspondents described him, a “hot, mysterious, slightly fey older […]

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Also, Jonathan Coulton covers the original.

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Big ups to Tom for pointing me toward Mojiti, which allows you to to all sorts of nifty overlays atop preexisting Web video. Among other things, that enables the functionality I’d pleaded for in the vlog below to provide hyperlinks within a video, much as a textual blog post would have. But what’s actually even […]

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Mike Pence has always struck me as one of the handful of members of Congress who generally have their heads in the right place on the role of government, but his normal skepticism about the efficacy of state power has not been much in evidence when it comes to Iraq, from which he’s now blogging. […]

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Reason now has a Facebook group. Semi-related: I note with mild satisfaction that the bulk of the posts on the group “Libertarianism is an Unfortunate Fad” are borderline illiterate, and even the group description is a syntactic mangle.

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That’s right, it’s Casimir Pulaski Day: DCist has more.

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