What's a Meta For?
Metaphors help us understand the universe, but what if they're really helping us get it wrong?
Wes Phillips
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The Great Bore
Another subway pun, this time the title refers to the project that created the London Underground. Must be something in the air (hah, I slay myself) today.
Underground History
Not as in counterculture, but as in the London Underground, Cool tour of unused and abandoned stations. Gosh I love this stuff—the only thing better is actually sneaking in yourself.
Medical Slang
I'm a complete sucker for jargon. Specialized vocabulary identifies you a an insider and, whether you mean it to or not, it reveals a lot about your group.
Eightfold Monomania
My buddy Jeff Wong and I were talking about the collector's mentality on one of our bike rides recently. Jeff observed that there are two major strategies for collectors who have it bad: Try to collect everything and the other is mine a tightly defined subgenre.
Tasmanian Devilment
Timesonline has a great article/book review focusing on the Tasmanian Devil. There's great stuff here, but what really grabbed me was a great nickname: Colonel William “Phlegmatic” Paterson.
Is The Entire Universe One Big Quantum Computer?
Well, that's what Seth Lloyd thinks. I love this Technology Review interview because the writer obviously doesn't buy the theory, but he gives Lloyd a fair shake in laying it out.
Smug
Bagheera may have more of the chair, but Huck's looking pretty smug about using her as a pillow.
Together
Aww, ain't they cute?
Russia Bans the Term "Dollar"
As a writer, I agree wholeheartedly. It's the word that causes all the trouble, not that, as a writer, I know much about dollars.