Month: March 2006

So he was on one of these errands and the person behind the counter didn’t know him and was asking for some identification. He had his hands full so first...

I found out about PostSecret the other day. PostSecret asks that perfect strangers write things on the fronts of postcards, then mail them anonymously to PostSe...

John Massengale notes some odd designs that Reed Kroloff and associates have on New Orleans. Take this one, for example. Apparently the artiste is unaware of th...

Ben Hammersley writes According to this blog post research has shown that people talking on IM treated users they considered to be geographically far away in a ...

Highland County made the national news the other day. There’s a bit of controversy about a wind farm proposed for one of the ridges there. Feelings have b...

The Connecticut State Parks have a plan. You will get out of your chair, go outside, and have fun. Leave the video games at home. They are not needed to play Th...

Ben Hyde notes a common parental concern that arises from the fungibility of lunch money. If you give your child lunch money only later to discover they are buy...

At the site of FunWebProducts is this warning. Please read carefully. By clicking one of the “FunWebProducts” above, you accept and agree to abide b...

We just watched A Man for All Seasons, about Thomas More. In it he is quoted as saying, Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned ’round on...

As further proof that c|net hires only the best and the brightest, Steven Shankland puffs up a piece about the release of the 2.6.16 kernel with this evidence: ...

Traipsing by Jeremy‘s after checking out Google Finance, I noticed this link in his sidebar: The Sun Doesn’t Shine On Me. The sad tale of JoyentR...

Is it too much to ask that web applications return an appropriate status code?

The current version of WordPress handles DEL and INS incorrectly. When WordPress attempts to enforce valid markup it moves DEL and INS out-of-context and insert...

One of the nice things about living or working in New York City is the convenience of social events. Events such as what looks to be a very interesting debate t...

Rick said that his friend Erik Heels said that his, Rick’s, employer, FeedBurner, doesn’t matter. This prompted Rick to write a bit about why FeedBu...

Zimran thinks mobile phones are due for simplification. I do too. I saw the LG Migo when I was in a Verizon Wireless store last year after my LG VX-6100 clamshe...

Is the look of a web site protected trade dress?

Let’s assume some stereotypes for a moment, and wonder if perhaps women understand the core of the business better than men do.

This map of the assessed values of properties in Manhattan by Bill Rankin, via David Sucher, and its companions, are an interesting piece of statistical art. I ...

Bill Amend‘s Foxtrot had a sequence from March 1st to 4th where Jason sets up a coffee shop in the kitchen. He discovers that the demand curve is inelasti...