Peace On Earth

My favorite bit of whimsy from today’s Apple product announcements: on the page for the iPod Shuffle, there’s an image of the new iPod beside a couple of packages of gum with the caption “Smaller than  [more...]

My idea for a “Doctor Who” episode: The time is spring. People all over America are preparing for night’s sleep by turning their clocks forward by an hour in preparation for Daylight Savings Time. In  [more...]

This is where the big, quantifiable difference between San Jose weather and Washington weather rears its head: right now, it is 104° in San Jose -- very unusual heat, it rarely goes over 90 here. (The record for  [more...]