Rough Drafts

State-by-state election returns make the U.S. look like a deeply divided country–red Republicans in the South and middle; blue Democrats […]

Indian farmers have discovered that spraying their fields with Coca-Cola may be as effective as–and lots cheaper than–spraying with pesticides.

Remember the John Woo movie Face/Off, where John Travolta and Nicholas Cage trade faces? Well, it isn’t science fiction any

Jacques Derrida is dead. The Telegraph has an intelligent and balanced review of his life and work. Derrida’s work had

Patrick Costello has put up the whole text of his book, The How and The Tao of the Old-Time Banjo,

There are 11 different ways you can misspell “pedal to the metal,” all of which use legitimate words that Word

Researchers studying the behavior of software agents set up a test, called the “minority game,” where agents are competing for

Paul Graham, in What the Bubble Got Right: “someone who doesn’t expend any effort on marketing himself. A nerd, in

Dutch artist Theo Jansen makes gigantic, wind-powered, walking “animals” out of steel and polyester sheeting, such as this 2-ton Animalis