The Winter Olympics at least provided a pleasing distraction as I was preparing my taxes for the accountant. Hundreds of check stubs, hundreds of little receipts with cryptic scrawls on them. (What is “sprawk?” Is it deductible? Does it go on Schedule C?) And then I look up, and Canucks and Austrians and Chinese Communists […]

Y’know, Bruce Sterling thinks about this shit real hard. And a couple weeks ago he delivered a speech that shows how far ahead of us he really is. Now let me tell you how the atemporal Richard Feynman approaches this. The atemporal Richard Feynman is not very paper-friendly, because he lives in a network culture. […]

A few years ago, the University of Mississippi canned their mascot, Colonel Reb, because, well, he looked like a stereotypical slave-owning plutocrat, and even Ole Miss is committed to diversity these days. But where to look for a new mascot? Especially if your team is called the Rebels? You look to a galaxy far, far […]

Majorly big Twilight fan Kayla Patterson has written an open letter to Universal Studios, accusing them of, like, totally, ripping off Stephanie Meyer when they made a movie about a werewolf.I actually started to like werewolves after seeing Jacob Black and all his awesomeness on the big screen at the movies. That was until I […]