Last week Steven Johnson wondered why there are no videogames that simulate the 2004 US presidential campaigns. The idea must have been floating around the zeitgeist, because Howard Dean’s campaign has actually commissioned a game, just released today I think, where you […]

Searching for something completely different, I found David Weinberger’s post of guesses of how we’ll blog when blogs are really popular. Also to be tucked away for future use, is the comparison of the nanoaudiences of blogs to the audience of one […]

Chris Allbritton, a blogging journalist who in March blogged so well readers donated enough money to send him to Iraq as an independent journalist, is still writing about Iraq, and planning to go back. I’m interested in why I enjoy his writing […]

I’d hardly care that the sound quality isn’t that good: an mp3-player necklace – look, here’s a sexier photo.

A snowball hit my window. Nobody outside, only footprints in the snow. Ten minutes later remnants of snow drag a wet tail down the window like snail’s silver.

A German study of 2000 SMSes that were stored on informants phones neatly divvies up the kinds of messages people actually send each other, and, interesting, shows that “SMS language” is actually more frequently found in German newspapers than in real SMSes. […]

Good food writing is delicious, and Chocolate and Zucchini is a blog as good as my favouritely chatty cookbooks. I might even make some of the dishes, or (swoon) visit some of the Parisian restaurants. (via Megnut)

I am so ready for the holidays.

After fifty years of stress research, almost exclusively on men, the standard doctrine has been that when under pressure, humans snap to fight or flight reactions. We hide away or we get angry, is the idea. Recently it occurred to stress researchers […]

The question now, of course, is whether the roof will continue to cave in, in which case it needs reinforcements, or whether it has simply decided it wants to be more pitturesque than we’d planned, and should be permitted to stay that […]