"If you have no catnip or kibble, you are dead to me."

"Honestly, I have no idea how those CDs wound up on the floor."

Jerome Harris sent in this tidbit, commenting, "Talk about ahead of the curve!"

A good read from <I>The New Yorker</I>. I saw a special on the Enigma Project once and they interviewed a woman who had worked with Turing at Bletchley Park. She basically said that everybody at BP was phenomenally bright, but that Turing was a genius and that the difference between being intelligent and being a genius was the difference between going from A to G and from A to Zed. Genius didn't need the intermediate steps that even the very brightest of us require.

I love these re-imaginings of film trailers. What if the ultimate two-hankie movie was much, much creepier?

The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis posits that the grammatical categories of the language a person speaks affects how he or she perceives the world. It has been a lightning rod of controversy ever since it was proposed. A new paper suggests that it's half true&mdash;sort of.

I'm not sure what makes it so special; I'm not sure if it <i>really is</i> as special as Mark Levinson says it is. "This is about life. This is going to bring digital music <i>life</i>."