Curse You Clippy!
Peeved at Clippy the annoying talking paperclip in MS Word? If you're rude to him, he'll tell you how to turn him off. Programmers call this unhappy user detection.
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Heinlein at One Hundred
Taylor Dinerman offers an appreciation of Heinlein on the occasion of his centenary. Of course, he conveniently skips over that embarrassing incest novel <I>Time Enough for Love</I>, but I've always marveled that that one raised eyebrows at all. After all, the heroes of <A HREF="http://ieng9.ucsd.edu/~mfedder/zombies.html">"All You Zombies"</A> (considered by some to be the best time travel story ever—although I confess to being thoroughly creeped out by it) and <A HREF="http://www.xs4all.nl/~pot/scifi/byhisbootstraps.pdf">"By His Bootstraps"</A> go considerably further than traveling back in time to seduce their mothers.
Oscar the Cat
He's accurate.
Queen of Bayreuth
Wagner's 29-year-old great-granddaughter debuts her production of <I>Die Meistersinger</I> tonight. It's part of a multi-generational saga that rivals the Ring cycle for drama.
Swan Song
On the disappearing great operatic diva.
Real Life Superheroes
I love Tothian: He "doesn't wear a mask because it blocks his peripheral vision, and says he doesn't wear a cape 'because capes get in the way of actually doing real superhero stuff.'"
Let Us Now Praise Editors
Me, I'm lucky—I work with a great editor and an even better copy editor. It's win-win.
Ins and Outs
<i><b>Let's Play the Caption Game!</i></b>
Living Photographs
Arthur Mole and John Thomas arranged thousands of soldiers, reservists, and nurses into various patriotic symbols and photographed them from above—a description which, while being accurate, doesn't prepare you for their work.