From the Front Lines
The Birmingham News recently uncovered a cache of unpublished photographs from the early years of the Civil Rights struggle. Thank goodness these images weren't lost.
Fun With Fractals
Well, I think they're fun.
Fur = Cute
Even with lobsters—or is it the blonde thing?
Gödel & the Limits of Logic
Nice essay on Gödel's place in mathematical logic.
Gaia Strikes Back
James Lovelock, originator of the Gaia theory, is not optomistic about human life on earth.
Gaiman on Moore
On his website, Neil Gaiman pulls off the difficult accomplishment of making me want to read Alan Moore's Lost Girls in a longer version of an essay published in Publisher's Weekly.
Gaiman on Wells
Neil Gaiman argues that the science fiction novels of H.G. Wells, while fine, pale compared to his short stories. Gaiman says that the SF stories survive, while "many of the mainstream novels he considered more important and significant are gone and, for the most part, forgotten, perhaps because the novels were very much of their time."
Gallery of Censored Album Covers
Some of these were banned, not because of what they showed, but because the censors had really filthy imaginations. Who would have ever guessed?
Game Theoretic Approach to the Toilet Seat Problem
Caution: This is just a theory.
Game, Set, & Match: Rosen
In 2005, journalism professor Michael Skube wrote an uninformed "think" piece about blogs and blog culture, concluding that bloggers didn't do "real" journalism. (He's probably seen this one.) On August 19 this year, he did what hacks do—he wrote the same piece again, this time for The LA Times.