Birds Don't Fly Fair
They bend the rules.
Wes Phillips
Freedom Isn't Just Another Word
John Flahive answered the phone one evening. On the other end of the line was a stranger, George Martorano calling from prison. That call changed both their lives.
Harry Potter and the Death of Reading
Personally, I've enjoyed the Potter books finding the themes more archetypal than "derivative," but chacun á son goût, ya know? What I found interesting about Ron Charles' rant was this pithy argument: "We're experiencing the literary equivalent of a loss of biodiversity." In 1994, according to a Stanford survey, over 70% of fiction sales were from just five authors.
Submarine Cable Map 2007
'Fess up, you didn't know where they are either.
Unraveling the Möbius Strip
Eugene Starostin and Gert van der Heijde have solved a 75-year-old conundrum by developing tools to predict the three dimensional form a Möbius strip will take.
I Scream, You Scream
About these scary flavors of ice cream.
Damn Paparazzi!
Huckleberry wants to be left alone.
Seven Pounds of Cat
But Bagheera has seven tons of attitude.
Now Here's an Argument You Don't See Every Day
An OpEd piece asking why British college students can't write as well as their American peers. And it's not even meant to be funny!
Jumping the Shark
On the eve of the release of The Simpsons movie, Ian Jones explains when and why the TV show began to suck (he says it was in season 9, 1997). Will the movie reflect the glory of the first eight seasons or will it disappoint? The trailers have not embiggened my enthusiasm.