Rough Drafts

Most entertaining essay of 2004: Planes, Trains, and Plantains: The Story of Oedipus.

This has really gone too far: When the WSJ starts writing about how cool Moleskine notebooks are, and even BoingBoing

This interesting essay in City Journal examines how classic literature — often disparaged as a “canon” of irrelevant works by

I love it when judges smack down the fundamentalists. It happens so infrequently that it’s especially gratifying when it does

It’s not like me to brag too much, but at the recent Vegas trade show CES, I got to party

Gabrielle and Kenneth Adelman have been flying up and down the California coastline in a helicopter, with a Nikon D-1

Ron Avitzur got laid off from his job as a software consultant at Apple in 1993. But he refused to

William Alwyn Bentley spent four decades around the turn of the century — the last century — photographing snowflakes. He

A spooky looking me, from the Mobile PC moblog.

U. Pittsburgh Linguist Scott Kiesling has researched how young Americans use the word “dude:” … the four-letter word has many