Released test questions and sample tests for some WASL subjects.

I learned that there is a Humanitarian Device Exemption to FDA regulations, and that sometimes twins’ blood supply can get all mixed up before they are born, but now science may be able to help, thanks to the HDE! The world is a wide, strange, and wonderful place.

Dagoba recalls chocolate bars containing lead (!!), perhaps indicating production problems in swamp-planet-based factories. More peripheral brain dump: crocheted hyperbolic models, How to Draw a Radish.

I’m reading Accelerando right now, and our hero keeps much of his memory and less-used brain functions in computer storage rather than in his noggin. I keep it on little scraps of paper, my thumb drive, and my blog. Yet again it is proven that I am not writing for others, but for myself. Even […]

A brief article out of Charlotte about a scheduled appearance by W this Thursday got caught in my news watch, though it doesn’t contain the key word. It’s the second bit of evidence I’ve gotten in the last few days that details about his scheduled whereabouts are being treated with great sensitivity, even in the […]

Two of those “for Dummies” books that, while they sound very similar, may in fact be mutually exclusive: Dreams for Dummies Drums for Dummies (hey! I’m like McSweeney’s but much shorter and less funny!)

The most expensive Google Ads words are veeeerry similar to local ads on TV. I’m sure this means something.

Just when I was starting to wonder if maybe my iPod’s hard drive is losing its mind, I run across instructions for getting into diagnostics mode.