Category: General

Denise is not the only one who can talk about baby gear. I have an aversion to lifting large, bulky objects, especially in tandem with other large, bulky object...

On the Engines of Our Ingenuity this morning, John Leinhard talked about 10,000 patents lost when the Patent Office burned. By 1836, it housed ten thousand pate...

In what could have been a tragically ironic twist of fate, Deena performed the Heimlich maneuver on the Little Sister this afternoon. The girls were out looking...

How is it that Google can give me 2 GB of mail storage, but work can barely afford 27 MB?

Here are some pictures from around Staunton‘s award-winning parking garage. And though I must write the commentary, I also have pictures of Main Street, M...

On the way back from Florida, I plan to use mass transit, beginning with JetBlue in Ft. Myers, then the JFK AirTrain to Jamaica, the E train to Lexington Avenue...

I saw this expression of dogma in the paper this morning, but it cleared the buffer before I made it back to my desk. Thanks for the reminder, Eric. BRIELLE, Ne...

NPR has an excellent series on relations between the West and the Middle East.

NPR has an amusing feature on the 30th anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons.

Browser trends is important information. Their grammar may not be all that, but the browser statistics are interesting. Skip the verbiage and go right to the nu...

I finally caught one of the fencing broadcasts, of the men’s sabre finals on TiVo. If you don’t have TiVo, or another high-quality DVR, and you are ...

The Olympic movement’s site for the 2004 Olympics has a section called Olympic Village. Look at the low aerial perspective, and how monumental the Olympic...

Phil Ringnalda has an excellent look at MSN Spaces, their blog service, though I’m not sure why I read Sam Ruby’s comments without going back to the...

Rick Ochoa points out this very important public service announcement from Red vs. Blue. Also available from here.

I’ve been linking to stories from The Journal News, the local Gannett paper, because it contains stories of interest. Those links disappear into the archi...

This is what a real mansion looks like. It is obviously not a McMansion, which you can confirm by checking the price tag. ure doesn’t do the place justice...

I didn’t mention this before, but NBC’s Olympics site is incredibly bad. The first two thirds of the screen are taken by useless graphical features....

I like how Rick Ochoa captured this frog.

inluminent’s well-endowed linkblog linked to a manifesto at ChangeThis. People call the team at Change This optimists because we don’t believe it has to b...

CIO Magazine has seen fit to include SBC as one of its “Agile 100.” They “selected 100 organizations wherein IT agility enables agility across...