If you've flown anywhere in the last decade or so, you've seen <I>SkyMall</I>, that compendium of useless, hopelessly geeky, and just downright strange products. Pretty hard to parody something like that, eh?

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Knife wielding farmer's wives look out!

Fred Kaplan's piece on Ornette Coleman in <I>Slate</I> isn't simply a brilliant piece of work, it uses embedded links to their greatest advantage. This ain't easy, although Fred's graceful prose and mastery of his subject sure make it go down smooth.

Scent: shapes or vibrations? The subjectivist/objectivist debate rages on.

Serendipitous laboratory accidents have created many "miracles of science." But could somebody explain item 20 on this list to me?

Today is Elizabeth's birthday. Lucky for us dudes, she spent the day working from home, so we didn't have to get into anything mushy like flowers, or cards, or hugs. Instead, we sat around playing poker, chomping on cigars, and taking slugs of Night Train and Thunderbird. That's what we do when Elizabeth's not around to keep us in line. It's a wonder the magazine gets made at all.