Sometimes I think that Bob Dylan is a member of a secret group of psychologists and mind control experts — a group researching the most direct lyrical pathway to the innermost parts of the brain. This team of reclusive psychologists have been devising and testing lyrical experiments on us for the past four and a [...]

I just discovered Google Earth. It’s lots of fun. It’s a great GIS toy and you can pretend you are Superman with it! http://earth.google.com/

Camille Paglia slams Madonna, extolls the virtues of disco. “disco for me is a lofty metaphysical mode that induces contemplation… Disco at its best is a neurological event, a shamanistic vehicle of space-time travel.” Ooookay.

When I was dragged kicking and screaming into the windows world a few years ago, one of the things I really missed from linux was multiple desktops. I used to keep literally hundreds of windows open at a time, spread across 8 desktops, with each desktop devoted to a different project. Eventually I spread to [...]