WaPo's Hank Stuever says: Hi everyone. I just fought my way into the Post building on 15th Street -- there is a huge mob out there wanting to buy copies of today's paper as a souvenir. Somehow they are not content to stan…
A mathematician discovers the secret of the opening chord in "Hard Day's Night" : Four years ago, inspired by reading news coverage about the song’s 40th anniversary, [Jason] Brown decided to try and see if he coul…
The Chronicle of Higher Education addresses the subject. (With some quotes from me.) Their comment section is over here . I like the second one, from "Wilford Brimley": You young whippersnappers with your newfangled fo…
But it's only $100. And it's a laptop. For poor kids all over the world. Nice! Mike Elgan said it's showing us the future of laptops — it's what we'll all want in 5 years: "Poor kids will probably get i…
John Tierney wonders, and really, haven't you been worrying about this possibility for a long time? [I]f you accept a pretty reasonable assumption of [Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom], it is almost a mathematical certainty t…
Even though the iPhone has an icon on the home screen that connects directly to YouTube and the videos play gorgeously on the clear, bright screen, embedded videos don't even appear ! You just see a picture of a block! In ca…
So I was just hanging around at home, trying to get some reading done, and I see reports predicting hailstorms -- hail 4 1/2 inches in diameter -- baseball size! I have never seen anything close to baseball-sized hail. And I don…
Have you ever suddenly noticed a word inside another word? Computer words searches make this a more frequent occurrence. I just noticed the familiar word inside "chemotherapy."
A new podcast ... about an old tree, a fat and pompous politician, a girl who survived rabies, a record album from 40 years ago, a possibly evil artist, and succulent flowers and puffy clouds. You don't need an iPod. You can …
Exclaimed, not sarcastically, just now, by someone who works at Caffe 608 at the Sundance Cinemas in Madison, on seeing 5 of the 7 tables along the wall each occupied by one person working on a computer. ADDED: So Robert Redford…
It's a podcast. About Austin, Texas. Omakase. Driving 1235 miles in one day. Don Imus. Torturing a man by telling him he looks like Mr. Bean. Etc. You don't need an iPod. You can stream it right through your computer her…
An anonymous comment at Above the Law tweaks Georgetown Lawprof David Cole. The post itself consists of David Lat saying he's bored with the old topic of laptops in the law school classroom. Haven't we all already said w…
It's a podcast ... about standing my ground in the blogosphere. You don't need an iPod. You can stream it right through your computer here . But people who get it subscribe on iTunes:
Time to catch up once again with Audible Althouse : it's a podcast of the odd last few days on a blog called Althouse. Things are not what they seem. How do you know what you're looking at? There were those "Aqua Tee…
Oh, you've waited so long, podcast fans... if I still have podcast fans. This is just a podcast about trying to revive the joy of podcasting. There's some substance too. But I'm just hoping you'll come along for …
In the new podcast , I stumble into a marijuana festival, I submerge myself in a comparison of Foleygate to "The Vagina Monologues," I stare too deeply into a postcard photograph of my grandmother, and I end up wonderin…
Mickey Kaus notes the "Densepack Theory": "the anti-GOP media have launched so many damaging GOP stories... that they are all arriving at once and, like fratricidal incoming ICBMs, are knocking each other out of t…
... to this chapter of Mark Halperin and John F. Harris's "The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008" that's reprinted in the Washington Post. I wonder what motivates him . Who can fathom it? Deep thinkers…