News From the Edge of the Solar System
Meet 2004 XR190—but everybody calls her "Buffy."
Wes Phillips
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My Secret Vice
I haunt Post Secret.
Jittering With What Happens Next
The February issue is just about done. I mean, we've...<br>
I can't even think...
Stereo Means "Solid"
Turn your computer monitor into a really high-tech snow globe.
I Know There's a Superman Around Here Somewhere
You can't make this stuff up.
Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics
Ex-physics teacher John Atkinson pays his kids $1 for each example of bad science they spot in the movies they see. For <I>The Day After Tomorrow</I>, IIRC, he instituted a $50 cap.
Project Pandora
"Can you help me find more music I'll like?"
Time's A Wastin'
Yup, this is a colossal waste of time.
The '40s In Color
The Library of Congress has posted <I>Bound for Glory: America in Color</I>, an online exhibition of <I>color</I> images taken by the Farm Security Administration from 1935–1944. Amazing stuff.
A Menagerie of Strings and Things
It's not that I'm suffering from writer's block or anything queer like that, it's just that there's a lot going on in the office and in life. The difficult thing for me, when it comes to writing, is making sense of all these little red and white ideas hanging down from the ceiling like origami birdies. I'd prefer to spend my entire day writing.