Things added in January, 2005
Oedipus wrecks.
Most entertaining essay of 2004: Planes, Trains, and Plantains: The Story of Oedipus.
Moleskine overload.
This has really gone too far: When the WSJ starts writing about how cool Moleskine notebooks are, and even BoingBoing starts drooling over the things and talking about how many ...
The Classics in the Slums.
This interesting essay in City Journal examines how classic literature -- often disparaged as a "canon" of irrelevant works by long-dead white males -- has in fact been profoundly liberating for more ...
Evolution sticker smackdown!
I love it when judges smack down the fundamentalists. It happens so infrequently that it's especially gratifying when it does happen. In this case, a judge saw through the transparent creationism ...
Partying with Steven Tyler.
It's not like me to brag too much, but at the recent Vegas trade show CES, I got to party with Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler and American bike racing hero Lance Armstrong. ...
California coastline.
Gabrielle and Kenneth Adelman have been flying up and down the California coastline in a helicopter, with a Nikon D-1 digital camera and a GPS receiver. They've photographed almost the entire coast, ...
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W1
Flexibility and ease of use are not mutually exclusive, though most camera makers don't know that. You shouldn't have to choose between pocket point-and-shoot cameras and larger, bulkier, and complicated models that ...
Canon EOS 20D
Film-camera snobs, cower in fear. The Canon EOS 20D is a shot across the bow of your beloved 35mm camera. More than that: It's the first digital camera we've tested that has ...