Just As I Thought
Fun Stuff

Portrait of the Artist

Ah, that day when my friends Sara and Lance and I went to the Hirshhorn gallery to see the Laurie Anderson exhibit, and turned around to discover that we were being followed by… Laurie Anderson.

April 24, 2023
Right = Wrong

Does this sound Talibanesque to you?

I don’t even know where to begin today. Here’s a story from the San Francisco Chronicle about a new DVD player about to arrive at Wal-Mart — it censors movies. “It’s another example of a  [more...]

April 8, 2004

On the Board

Fun Stuff

The Secret Language

What’s with this new obsession with hating the French? Chicago’s NBC5 aired a story about tags inside some bags and backpacks that had (possibly) anti-Bush statements on them. They were written in French, a  [more...]

April 7, 2004
General Annoyances

I need a trademark lawyer

Hmm — I’ve been using the term “gmail” for five years on my website. And this company rushed to trademark it last week, thinking they were going to trump Google? I might just sue them myself  [more...]

April 7, 2004
The War with the Customer

Is file sharing the culprit?

A New York Times article asks the difficult question: is internet file sharing really responsible for declining music sales? The music industry says it repeatedly, with passion and conviction: downloading hurts sales  [more...]

April 7, 2004
Right = Wrong

Will on the War Time President

Can it be? Is it possible? George Will is obliquely criticizing Dubya? After last week’s murder of four American civilian contractors in Fallujah, U.S. leadership in Baghdad promised that the response against that  [more...]

April 7, 2004
Fun Stuff

Define this

Speaking of the Post, they’ve been tweaking their design over the last month, and I never know day to day what the site will look like. Today, as if to taunt me with their indecisiveness, the following schoolyard  [more...]

April 7, 2004