Vortex for Strings

The fine folks who brought you MP3 — the Fraunhofer Institute — have now come up with multichannel MP3, bringing surround sound to the format. You can download a time-restricted evaluation of the new encoder  [more...]

This is the beginnings of a dictionary that I and a friend started to compile, circa mid 1990s. It was inspired by a person that we knew who mangled the English language so horribly that we often couldn’t  [more...]

Tonight while watching “Judging Amy,” there was a scene where two doctors were walking down a run-down city street. As they were walking, I could have sworn that the brick looked familiar… then they  [more...]