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The April issue of the Communications of the ACM contained an article about hastily formed networks. A hastily formed network is a …

I’ve been looking for a weblog post I read two or three months ago about the future of libraries, but so far I’ve failed to …

Enthusiasm is lagging. It must be the heat. It got into the 80s today, with an afternoon thunderstorm. Tomorrow and Sunday are supposed …

I was watching a few of my favorite episodes from Ren and Stimpy on DVD last night and I started thinking about comedy and taste. …

I recently watched the documentary film The Corporation which stitches together an argument about the many ways the modern corporation …

It’s been a long day. My book group discussed The Innamorati by Midori Snyder tonight. Very interesting. I hope to have some …

A recent post at my favorite godless liberal weblog, Pharyngula, on the gender and age distribution of writers for skeptical magazines …

It’s been twenty-three days since I began this effort at daily writing. So has it been worthwhile? Thinking aloud in a …

One of the dilemmas of art that I find fascinating is the conflict between entertainment and education. Should art distract us from our …

One of my perennial interests is personal knowledge or information management. How do you keep track of all the stuff that comes at …