I've been a fan of Insomniac Games from close to the start. When my brother asked whether we'd played a new game and I said, "...

I've long had a complicated relationship with euphemisms. On their own, I don't like them much. I'm annoyed by people's inab...

W00t! The Center for Inquiry is hosting a conference on the topic of women in the secular movement! Here at CFI we think it’s high time—it’...

But oh, it was lovely while it lasted.

Yesterday morning, I left for work dressed for the temperature, not the windchill. Since I walk to work, this makes a difference. At one poi...

Prelude and Postscript: Creech AFB If you watch as we pass, you should get to see them to touch-and-go landings. No disrespect to everyone i...

I. A Is for Atom II. F.D. Roosevelt, President of the United States Sir: Some recent work by E. Fermi and L. Szilard, which has been communi...

Ellen Kushner's Swordspoint came out while I was in high school. I didn't read it then, although I rather wish I had. Although I lo...

Oh. This . This is beautiful. The result is the Twitter chatbot @AI_AGW. Its operation is fairly simple: Every five minutes, it searches twi...

It was the kind of wedding where the bridesmaid's dresses were chosen, each for the individual woman, with an eye to appropriately displ...

There's something weird that's been making me happy. I don't know that I can explain it, or even that I ought to try, but that i...

What do you get a very good friend who has almost everything he wants and really only wants for things you have no power to give him? Well, ...

Maybe it's because it was the first season I experienced, but I happen to think that fall in Minnesota is pretty much perfect. Cool nigh...

Betül has successfully survived, researched, survived, written, survived, defended and survived. Congratulations, Dr. Arslan! Now you can ge...

And not just for his great taste in eyeliner. Or for this: More for this: I had always wanted to do a big physical running challenge, and th...

Do I really need to tell you that this is perhaps not what you want to listen to if today is a religious holiday for you? Tucked below the f...

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...and must be preserved. I mean, you don't see sensical nonsense like this every day, not even among my friends. Not quite every day.

I've given him almost a week, but DuWayne still hasn't posted this link to some of his music on his own blog, just in the comments...

"I want to send you something. What is your address?" So I told her, her being Scicurious . She said it would come from The Devil...