Cool book about the Internet that is destined to fail because it disses (or at least shines a harsh spotlight on) bloggers and Web 2.0 in general: Andrew Keen’s The Cult of the Amateur.
I haven’t read it. I saw him, er, “interviewed” on a (recent) rerun of The Colbert Report. I love the premise of […]

A while ago my friend M told me about Neti pots, like this one. She heard about it from Dr. Mehmet Oz, a frequent guest on the Oprah show and co-author of three pretty well done health books like You: Staying Young.
Anyway, you use a Neti pot like so:

Looks kinda gross… and I certainly had […]

Donna, who lives with her family in Florida, asked me if I have a blog that would let her keep up with my doings. That struck me as a great idea. So I upgraded a languishing 2004 installation of WordPress to version 2.3.2, found myself a theme to work with (”newyorker,” by Milo), and spent […]

The normally serene campus of De Anza college in Cupertino, California (south of San Francisco) was thrown into turmoil today as three ducks went “fucking wild,” apparently driven to violent behavior by eating burrito scraps left on a table in the main quad.
One woman, who asked to remain anonymous, described it like this: “I was […]