I started browsing through the selection of Indian-made scooters from Bajaj, but now I’m entranced by their selection of three-wheelers! And according to my state’s regulations, they’re all motorcycles.

The very fascinating Frankfurt kitchen was an outgrowth of “Taylorism,” those kitchen efficiency studies.

If we keep tracking T9 stories, will we become some sort of T9 web destination? Despite the links to humorous goofs, I’ve actually quite enjoyed the ease of T9 use, considering I’m typing with my thumbs.

Arg, it looks like I may be forced by exclusive licensing agreements to go to Sheets, Shats & Shit.

Not that I will miss the original Daleks, but my reading of this story leads me to believe Russell Davies and crew were going to do something cool with them. Too bad. I mean, if anything could do with an update, it would be menacing cyborgs that can’t go down stairs.

One of the regulars came up to the desk just now, wearing his usual camouflage jacket, baseball cap, and dark glasses, sporting his shaggy goatee. And by regular, I don’t mean that he just comes in regularly. I mean he comes in so often and for such stretches of time that one wonders how he supports himself. He said “I just got off the Internet with my girlfriend.” He shows me a picture she sent with an email: thin, young, blonde. My first thought is “I wonder if she knows what he looks like?” My second thought is “That’s not her real picture.” The second picture confirms it- very much cut-and-paste. Also? She’s currently in Nigeria, and she’ll visit if he just sends $200…

Regular readers will recall my surprise at the Scalia/Thomas split on COPA. Apparently they don’t disagree as infrequently as I had supposed, and this analysis makes an argument that it’s due to genuine differences in judicial philosophy and reasoning. And since the philosophy attributed to Thomas requires an absence of critical thinking, I find the argument persuasive.
Eleven and a half years later, TNR seems to have removed that article. Here is the Wayback Machine’s version.

Well, not really, but it’s a snappy headline. Actually, a Slate columnist says why he switched to Firefox. I’m using Firefox right now, and I like it a lot. If I could get it to auto-complete in the URL bar, I’d like it even more.

Digital certificates to be made available free. Who will be willing to accept them is another question entirely.

I saw a poster for a local theatre troupe’s production of The Miracle Worker by Willam Gibson, and for a split second I thought it was the other Wm. Gibson and thought “Wow, I’d love to see that play!” The set design alone would be worth it.