Savan wrote <I>Slam Dunks and No Brainers: Language in Your Life, the Media, Business, Politics, and, Like, Whatever</I>. Looks like a book I'll have to read.<I>Via Blog of a Book Slut.</I>

Now this is cognitive research that is interesting! When we concentrate on tasks, we switch off our awareness of self&mdash;one of those tricky areas that defines us as human in the first place.Maybe the real Turing test is what computers do when we're not working 'em so hard.

Who'd a thunk?

Swinging jazz dances from Abbey's Pub and floats up into Jersey City's cobalt blue sky. Two men stand near a white rental van.

According to <I>The Guardian</I> and the Book Marketing Group. I'm not too big a fan of a few of the choices&mdash;<I>Fight Club</I>?BMAFG!&mdash;but I'm really happy to see the criminally under-appreciated <I>Devil In a Blue Dress</I> and <I>The Day of the Triffids</I> on there.

Asking good questions is a skill that can be taught&mdash;and should be.

What happened to Benjamin and Elaine after they got off the bus? Writer Charles Webb, who based the characters on himself and his wife, can't tell you. He thinks he no longer owns the rights to his own story.

Natasha Walter argues that Br&#252;hilde, not Siegfreid, is the real hero of the Ring cycle. Her proof is in the music.