Yes, yes, I know that nobody reads my drivel anyway, but I still feel sort of bad about not having posted anything since mid-December (is that right? I didn’t even look to see when my last real post was.). I’ve been awfully busy with schoolwork. With luck I’ll actually manage to keep some kind of [...]

Wired.com, in an apparent bid for worst science article headline, put this up: Holographic Telecommuting May Soon Be Possible Which, if by ‘soon’ you mean decades from now, then sure. The accompanying article is mostly blah blah blah about how the projector works (which is actually kind of neat) but says flat out that it [...]

CNN announces new show, Parker Spitzer: CNN hosts-to-be Kathleen Parker and Eliot Spitzer announced the name of their upcoming 8PM show on the network: “Parker Spitzer.” The panel show will premiere October 4, and its name signifies that the show will be as much (if not more) about the lesser-known Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist as it [...]

The Huffington Post takes it out on the media that let this whole mess get out of control: Yesterday afternoon, the leader of a microscopic cult of idiots who announced plans to stage an “international” day of Quran burning in Gainesville, Florida held a press conference, for a rapt media which decided that his moronic [...]

Where Have All the Mailers Gone? | The New York Observer. Alas: The practice of fiction is no longer a vocation. It has become a profession, and professions are not characterized by creative mischief. Artistic vocations are about embracing more and more of the world with your will; professions are insular affairs that are all [...]

If Daniel Dennett is right— that there’s a human genetic need for religion— then I’d like to imagine that my atheism is proof of evolutionary biology in action. Read it here.

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10 tips on writing fiction from some big names in writing The biggest one I took away from this is that I need to actually do the damn thing. Which is something I’ve been overlooking for too long now, aside from this bloggy-blog thing. I love writing and used to plop down and write a [...]

<a href=”http://rightwingnews.com/2010/01/conservative-blogger-poll-the-2012-gop-primaries/”>But neither am I amused.</a>

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy There are only two recession-proof industries: booze and sex. One of them only costs you time, which you will have plenty of being unemployed. The other one simply dulls the pain. Black-markets don’t count because they’ll prosper regardless and could possibly fail if [...]