Wes Phillips

Now there's a term you don't hear every day.As Dave Barry says, it would be a good name for a rock band (WBAGNFARB).

William Golding on thinking—and how almost everybody has got it all wrong. Hint: It ain't sedentary; it's active.

I'm linking to this particular day's posting because it's so clear and well argued, but this insider's animation blog is a constant joy.

Bagheera: "You distract him and I'll knock the kibble off the shelf. He's slow—we'll make out like bandits."

Society has been turned upside down and a generation raised by young, inexperienced mothers is now running amok. Here's the kicker: We're talking about pachyderms

TG on the insanity of making movies, Spamalot as pension plan, and who really deserves the term "crook."

SciOrg is reporting that an optical-based quantum computer has successfully demonstrated "counterfactual computation," which is to say it came to its conclusion using information that is counter to what actually happened to reach a correct answer. Also, the computer did not actually run.