In this City Belt interview, Tris McCall, writer and musician, discusses the relationship between work and art.

Well, that's what Seth Lloyd thinks. I love this <I>Technology Review</I> interview because the writer obviously doesn't buy the theory, but he gives Lloyd a fair shake in laying it out.

Bagheera may have more of the chair, but Huck's looking pretty smug about using her as a pillow.

Aww, ain't they cute?

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.

What can I say about cables?

But I might make an exception for the unedited scroll of <I>On the Road</I>.

Whoa!

Test your siege engine skills! Educational <I>and</I> addictive.

I'm not surprised at studies' conclusion that a committed relationship and a social network are more crucial to happiness than wealth. No, I'm gobsmacked that there's a field called "happiness research."