My memory is very, very bad. I can look at something that I need to remember to take with me when I leave the house — a library book, for example, or the mailbox keys, or that movie that I’ve been meaning to lend my mom for weeks — I can look at it, and [...]
There is a school of thought that maintains that everything that happens, happens for a reason. No matter how horrible, no matter how painful, no matter how apparently senseless, everything happens for a reason that will someday become clear; possibly in this life, more likely in the next. And so, you ask, what’s the reason [...]
I’ve just had a fairly heated argument with a friend over the latest ugly news from Fallujah: the footage of a marine shooting a wounded, unarmed man lying prostrate and helpless in a mosque. We both had the same visceral reaction to the pictures: horror, moral outrage, a sick sense of helplessness. But we disagreed [...]
We visited the new annex of the Air & Space Museum this weekend. It’s essentially a massive hanger filled with every kind of flying machine you can imagine, from hang gilders to Concordes to space shuttles. It was mindblowing, and very very cool. But the coolest thing was up in the observation tower, a high [...]
We here at Doodleplex Command will occasionally venture out among the general populace to take the pulse of the nation, as it were; to talk to our fellow citizens, record their thoughts, hear their opinions, understand their feelings. Mostly, the general populace tries to avoid us, because we are unkempt and slightly annoying, but we [...]
Delicious Monster, a company with perhaps one of the coolest names in the business, has just released what is perhaps one of the coolest products in the business. It’s a media organization thingy called Delicious Library, and it allows you to create a computer catalog of all your stuff: books, CDs. movies, tapes, games, whatever. [...]
There’s been a real effort in the leftysphere, over the past couple of days, to figure out why we lost. The consensus, as far as I can tell, is this: We underestimated the power of the red states, and specifically the power of “moral values” to eclipse more concrete concerns, such as the war in [...]
Andrew Sullivan has a series of posts up today about the effect that this election is going to have on gay couples. Eleven states passed ballot initiatives that forbid gay marriage and, in most cases, even civil unions. It’s hate and prejudice under a thin veneer of “moral values” and “concern for the sanctity of [...]
Seeing in this election a chance to make a small contribution to the body of scientific knowledge, I resolved, through the process of empirical experimentation, to determine the weight of hope. Yesterday, right before the returns started coming in, I got on a scale and wrote down my weight. Then I sat up all night, [...]
In an early episode of the original Star Trek TV series, Captain Pike (Kirk’s predecessor) is crippled by a horrible injury, and confined to a wheelchair and a lifetime of pain and debility. All ends well, however, as Pike is placed into a permanent dream state, and lives out the rest of his life in [...]
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