Marking the start of this year's Supreme Court term, New York magazine has a wonderful interview with Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, here: http://nymag.com/news/features/antonin-scalia-2013-10/ . It's long, wide-ranging, and fascinating. Don't settle for the ( Read more... )

An economic doom-sayer; something to think about: Schiff: 2/3 of America to Lose Everything Because of This Crisis

I'm back from the nearly-two-week trip to Ohio for family affairs. It was a long trip, but the piles of work waiting for me are even bigger.

Nevertheless, I'll offer a couple of links to interesting things friends have pointed at me:

Hey, Dad, what's a "file"? - an interesting article on just how much control over your own electronics you're ( Read more... )

Watching the evening news on ABC, a couple of stories caught my attention. They led off the broadcast with the skyrocketing price of gasoline, to the point that the reporter, at the end of the taped segment, said "Look at that. Just in the three minutes our tape was playing, the price of gas at this gas station in Los Angeles went up ten cents a ( Read more... )

From Dad, presented without comment: "Mysterious planet-sized object spotted near mercury".

Three-and-a-half minute film of an octopus climbing out of the water and walking on seaweed ( Read more... )

"Is Obama grounding JFK's space legacy?" is an editorial in today's USA Today by Apollo commanders Neil Armstrong, Jim Lovell, and Gene Cernan. It's a good piece, which I recommend to you ( Read more... )

Don Sakers, the book reviewer for Analog Science Fiction and Fact recommends Jar Jar Binks Must Die… and other Observations about Science Fiction Movies in his latest "Reference Library" column (July/August 2011 ( Read more... )

I just read James Poniewozik's column in the latest issue of Time (well, it's actually the 17 January 2011 issue, but it arrived today). It's also available online here. I was going to link to it to say it's a nice comparison of Twitter to the CB radios of the 1970s. But before I was able to get to that link, I found this article, which says the ( Read more... )

This is so sad, and so true: the evolution of the marketing department in publishing. Read and groan: "Subject: Our Marketing Plan"
by Ellis Weiner in The New Yorker.