Field Notes

Target’s “Franklin Roosevelt” action doll looks curiously anachronistic for a mid-20th century President…

They came for the small, icy planets, and I said nothing, because I was not a small, icy planet… Pluto

“If an unsafe building collapsed and killed 1,000 people, we wouldn’t blame the building’s manager, or its maintenance crew, or

I loved Gopher so much I included a map of gopherspace in my 1994 book, The Traveler’s Guide to the

The WSJ discovers that the library is a great place for business info. (Especially true of the gorgeous brand-new library

“You can’t teach a human,” said Bill in our last lesson. “… You can tell them, you can show them,

Learn to give anti-global-warming presentations just like Al Gore does in An Inconvenient Truth. You could actually make a difference

Apart from the whole exploding batteries problem, that is: Computers Makers Reach 10-Year High In Customer Satisfaction – Yahoo! News

Ordinarily I hate Bush’s turns of phrase, but in this case, I think “Islamic fascists” is probably just about accurate.

This is so dorky that it can only have been created by some big telecom company in an effort to