Just As I Thought

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.

No, not THAT kind of pirate

The next time the motion picture industry starts whining about how piracy is ruining their business and that the loss of sales because of copying is going to cause all the studios to go bankrupt, just pull out this  [more...]

On the Board

The Wheel: My Lost Theory

I've finally formulated a theory on what will be revealed at the end of Lost, and I haven't seen this idea elsewhere so I'll post it and let the net assimilate it, chew it over, and spit it out.

This curve goes the wrong way

This may be a Memorial Day that George Bush will want to forget. You see, when one takes a day to honor our nation’s war deaths, an accounting usually follows. And the accounting of deaths in Bush’s war in  [more...]

Charles Nelson Reilly

LOS ANGELES- Charles Nelson Reilly, the Tony Award winner who later became known for his ribald appearances on the “Tonight Show” and various game shows, has died. He was 76. Reilly died Friday in Los  [more...]

Of inconsistency in interfaces

Usually I hold up Apple as an example of excellent user-focused design. Their devices and software generally works just as you expect it to, so much so that they don't even ship a manual with their computers anymore  [more...]