Like most people, I attach songs to certain times in my life. Sometimes it’s a totally random relationship, just something that happened to be playing on the radio at the time while I was doing something else. Other times the song itself has specific meaning attached to it, either through lyrics or because [...]
There seems to be a proliferation of famous people (Dave Barry, William Gibson, Moby, Beck, to name a few) writing weblogs. This is a good thing, I suppose, as it brings a bit more public legitimacy to the medium (because while weblogs may seem perfectly normal to people involved, the outside world, as embodied [...]
I haven’t used my PDA much, lately. In fact, I’ve probably only used it an hour or so in the past few weeks. Since most of my use tends to be frivolous, and I’ve been actually busy working lately, it’s not shocking that the playing has gone by the wayside. [...]
I just stumbled onto this story on Kuro5hin about lowering the minimum voting age. I like to talk politics, but have grown weary of pointless arguments over international politics, making a topic like this particularly appealing.
The entire discussion seems ridiculous. Yes, eighteen is an arbitrary limit, but it’s not an intrinsically bad one. [...]