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As Ted Nelson reminds us , we mostly still see the computer screen as just a different kind of page -- an electronic stand-in for a sheet of...

We've had little rain this summer but not draught: less mowing, lots of crystal-clear cloudless days, with light breeze and lower humid...

Fujiya & Miyagi I picked this up from sebastianmary , who says: "Fujiya & Miyagi’s Ankle Injuries video . All made of dice. It...

Google is celebrating its 9th birthday. Dennis Hwang makes these logos. There's a Google page about them . An aside: Like many neologi...

I keep the RSS feed for Emily Chang's PicoCool page in my aggregator. Today she posted about an artist, Elizabeth Perry , who has don...

The Tour of Spain ended yesterday with no surprises to speak of. The Rabo web site gives the news of the final stage: "Menchov does n...

I received a notecard from a friend at work. She sent it to thank me for a condolance. On front it shows the image at right, plum blossoms...

The self-service bike idea continues to spread. Dijon is next-up in France according to Ma Ville a Vélo . The metro area of this city will...

At the close of stage 19 of La Vuelta, Denis Menchov was quoted as saying his 95% certain of winning the race. Here's the wrap-up from ...

Update: Menchov and the Rabos did well. He came in third today and increased his overall lead by about a minute. Joost was the second Rab...

Today's stage of the Tour of Spain is an interesting one, long and hilly with a few small mountains. Rabobank has been fortunate over t...

Today's stage of the Vuelta was a grueling one. Long and mountainous, finishing at the top of the highest point in the race. The Rabo...

Joost Posthuma is competing in La Vuelta , the Tour of Spain, now ending the first of its three weeks. So far, Rabobank , the squad he...

Toulouse is joining a bunch of other European cities in adopting self-service bike program. The Vélib program began in Paris back in July a...

Here's a mind-blowing statistic. It's from a lead article in today's Washington Post: "As many as 60,000 D.C. residents --...

Tim Burke has started an excellent debate on the intellectual origins of the war in Iraq. It begins with a focus on a piece by a liberal de...

Forty years ago, the city of Detroit exploded in violence and the US had its first long hot summer. That same summer I became a counselor ...

The blog, Ma ville à vélo, is reporting that the Vélib' bike program in Paris had its millionth rental. That's a million uses in 18...

Went to a wedding recently where the groom, the groomsmen, and their friends were highly-educated, self-proclaimed geeks. Maybe for this re...

I've observed an enormous increase in traffic during the three decades I've lived in the near suburbs of Washington DC. Studies, su...