Rough Drafts

Just for fun I thought I’d make a list of paired words and phrases that exhibit obvious (and opposing) rhetorical […]

The “long tail” is digerati shorthand for the the increasing profitability of companies’ backlists–the formerly neglected niche products that used

Just for kicks, and because AdBrite has such cute branding, I decided to check out its advertising network. I’ve been

When I was a kid, the more gears your bike had, the cooler it was. Yet San Francisco is just

Here are two upcoming PCMagCast events that I’m producing and moderating. Lots of useful info in both of them —

Want to learn more about SMS, aka short message service, aka cell phone text messaging? Check out my new site,

Most tai chi chuan (aka taijiquan) videos are New Age snoozers of the yoga-hippies-on-the-beach variety. You’d never guess from them

Without trying to defend the clueless Senator Ted Stevens, I still have to ask: Why was it stupid for him

Here’s a story I wrote a couple months ago that I really had fun with. The working title was “the

I can’t find a decent explanation anywhere of why the #1 soccer player in France would headbutt another player in