Rough Drafts

The definitive list, from Mobile PC. Update 2/22: This story got posted on BoingBoing, Fark, and as of this morning, Slashdot. We’ve had our editors talking about it on CNN, Fox, and a slew of radio shows. It’s a hit!

His kung fu looks crazy — but you wouldn’t want to fight him.

One of the delights of running a free haiku site is getting angry, crazy, or just plain bizarre emails from people who feel that, for some reason, my web site is not living up to their expectations. Publish the wrong haiku, and some people will send profanity-laced invective. Skip a few days, and so

I had a great time on the Dennis Miller show yesterday, and I even got to meet Mowgli, the chimpanzee, on his last day working the show. While we were taping, I snapped Miller’s cheerful mug with the Treo 650 I was showing him. Details (and chimp pics!) over at Mobile PC.

I’ll be doing a segment on the Dennis Miller show on CNBC tonight, showing off some nifty new gadgets from Mobile PC’s March issue. It’s on at 9pm most places, on CNBC. Check me out!

We all know the atomic bomb is dangerous. But if you boys and girls know how to duck and cover, you’ll be perfectly safe.

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 starts drooling over the things and talking about how many bloggers love them, you know something is amiss. Really, now: Moleskines are cute, black, metrosexual notebooks with off-wh

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 than a century of working-class autodidacts in the U.S. and Britain. In fact, the article points out s

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 lurking behind a Georgia school board’s “evolution warning stickers,” (see parodies here) and ruled that

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. OK, I didn’t actually party with them–but I did get to party *near* them, and that was pretty cool to me. Also cool: […]

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, and put their images online. It’s an amazing project! California Coastal Records Project