From the monthly archives:

April 2009

100 Days

April 29, 2009 This Made Me Smile

100 days of ridiculousness from Fox News.
(Via The DW)

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Birdhouse in my soul

April 13, 2009 Technology

Not 100% sold on the app, but goddamn this is a great screencast.

And as usual, Scott Simpson steals the show.

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Before Memory Science, There Was Science Fiction

April 11, 2009 It's a SciFi World

Before Memory Science, There Was Science Fiction | Wired Science from Wired.com.
(via Maud)

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I just wonder…

April 8, 2009 Being a Writer

A. O. Scott, writing in the NYT:
“And just as the iPod has killed the album, so the Kindle might, in time, spur a revival of the short story. If you can buy a single song for a dollar, why wouldn’t you spend that much on a handy, compact package of character, incident and linguistic invention? [...]

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Inspired by kittens!

April 7, 2009 This Made Me Smile

I swear to God that I will not regularly post cat anything, but if this doesn’t make you smile you aren’t hooked up right:

Hat tip to Maria.

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Oh, we love the dinosaurs in Chi-town, baby!

April 7, 2009 This Made Me Smile

This is how the Sox open their season?

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Actually social media

April 7, 2009 Observations

I attended a little liberal arts college in Wisconsin, where we well-off kids were dipped into a fantasy island of hippie liberalism in the middle of a devastated post-industrial blue-collar town. We had to stick together or intoxicate ourselves out of our minds to keep the consensual reality held together, and generally it worked pretty [...]

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