Free Speech and Food Safety

(Monday December 29 2003) Discussion about food safety and mad cow aren't just a recent development... »

Direction of Digital Democracy

(Tuesday November 18 2003) The success of Dean's campaign isn't all about the money. »

The Wealth of the Network

(Tuesday November 18 2003) Why open-source and other volunteer projects can actually be wealthier than traditional corporations... »

Fall Back

(Friday October 31 2003) "Do you like November?" Becky asked. I didn't like last November: no work, »

Beware the Laughing Cat

(Friday October 31 2003) »

Search Stock Photography By Color

(Wednesday October 29 2003) »

Framing Taxation

(Thursday October 16 2003) Why do conservatives and progressives talk past one another, not with one »

How Linus Leads

(Wednesday October 15 2003) Insights on management style, especially of a vastly distributed, volunteer »

Live or Tell

(Tuesday September 23 2003) "Any poet's existence is a sin, viz., the sin that one is writing poetry »

Existentialism in a Nutshell

(Tuesday September 23 2003) A continental breakfast of philosophy, cut into small chunks so as not to choke the unwary... »

All About FM Radio

(Tuesday September 16 2003) Equipment and information for would-be FM broadcasters »

Strongbad Emails

(Friday September 12 2003) »

Sandwich Counter Conversation

(Wednesday September 10 2003) "Come here often?" No, I think, it's been a long while. And it's funny »

Instructions Preceeding a Book on Tape

(Thursday August 28 2003) "Should a cassette fail to play properly, hold it flat in the palm of your hand, and slap it smartly against a hard, flat surface... »

Failure is Always and Option

(Thursday August 28 2003) Fabulous essay/op-ed explaining the mindset one must approach any engineered »

The Problem

(Monday July 14 2003) Here's the problem: It gets wearying sometimes, making meaning out of experience, »

A Question of Trust

(Monday July 07 2003) The author of Black Hawk Down weights in on whether it's important that WMDs are found... »

Cult of the Red Heifer

(Sunday June 29 2003) The other day I pulled out some old notebooks, scrawlings I'd made while trying to make sense of my graduate Matrix Analysis course... »

Gift of Asher Lev Montage

(Friday June 20 2003) Selections from Chaim Potok's novel. I walked back with him to the cottage under a jet-black sky jeweled with stars... »

PHP Command Shell

(Saturday June 14 2003) Last week I wrote an interactive, command line PHP interpreter, and I've decided to post the source code here... »

Erratic

(Friday June 13 2003) Walk as smoothly and steadily as possible, he says. Hold on to the bars if you need to, but you don't have to... »

Xanthan Gum

(Tuesday May 20 2003 17:00) "I'm a bit hungry." "I am too. D'you want to get something?" "Yeah... »

My Rest a Stone

(Friday May 16 2003) Up the hill, past the expensive housing developments, through dirt, gravel, »

It's All About Positioning

(Thursday May 08 2003) Photo #682770 from the excellent National Geographic Image Collection, by Joel Sartore... »

Spring and All

(Saturday April 12 2003) "Don't see any good in just hanging around, take a tip from the birds and change the scene... »

Two Balancing Quotes

(Monday March 31 2003) "Young man," said Tolstoy, to an eager youthful reformer. "You sweat too much blood for the world... »

Holiday Specific Amnesia

(Monday March 24 2003) This year, I completely forgot St. Patrick's day. »

Hot Tub

(Friday March 21 2003) It was my birthday party. We were sitting in the hot tub at Dan's place, »

Mr. Rogers' Dartmouth Commencement Address

(Thursday February 27 2003) Fred Rogers died of cancer early this morning. I only remember watching »

Sick

(Thursday January 30 2003) When I was a kid, I read the Great Brain books by J.D. Fitzgerald, stories »

Midnight

(Monday January 06 2003) "You're never closer to dead than you are at 3 am" wrote Ray Bradbury, »