I have a soft spot for this show, but what really impresses me about this article on the long-running series is that the Sci-Fi network stuck with the show and worked to get viewers versed in its backstory and mythos, instead of just moving it to different time-slots each week like the "real" networks do.

Michael Chabon's rant about the imposition of predetermined boundaries and contours, of a formulary of play&mdash;and why Sid in <I>Toy Story</I> wasn't necessarily a Norman Bates in the making.

Headline of the year.

<I>The Independent</I> interviews Jared Diamond, author of <I>Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed</I>. The good news? We may not be doomed. The bad news: Yet, that is.

The link is to <I>The Guardian Unlimited</I>'s podcast of Stephen Fry and Christopher Hitchens debating blasphemy. You might think you don't have time to listen to a 78 minute argument? Well, think again&mdash;<I>this</I> you've got to hear.

On June 14, 2004, I made a silly, little mistake.

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