I’m not sure we necessarily need to put it in the Stuff We Like area, but we definitely like Jane, and she has a blog. Update: Nah, we love Jane, so into the permalinks she goes.

I noticed that Outlook Express was doing the wrong thing with the LF character at the beginning of my address, so I’ve changed it to a space. If the spam bots are smart enough to remove the space, I’ll have to do something else. Since they weren’t smart enough to remove the line feed, I’m […]

Check out Charity Navigator. They haven’t rated everybody, but they have rated many (and if you register (at no cost), you can suggest charities that you would like to see rated). Another place to check out how well (and not so well) non-profits do with your donations, at least in Washington, is the Secretary of […]

Matt Groening and David X Cohen talk about the possibility of Futurama coming back. People seem to be taking the interview as indicating that there’s something definitely in the works, but that’s not how I read it: “Three months ago, I would have said we were going to start tomorrow,” says writer David X. Cohen, […]

Paranoia becomes reality: stinky rings for your phone.

Yet again I am judging Reflections contest entries. To all young writers: read more good writing. Practice. Try to have something to say. Have someone read your writing, comment on it, and then write another draft. I wasn’t going to post any exerpts this year, but this one just cries out: “The thought of my […]

In a story of "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" gone horribly wrong, a French man is reported to have dated his mom on-line for six months before meeting her on the beach. The horror, the horror.

So I get a bulk—er, standard—rate envelope, with no return address, and inside it is a plain white card with a weird abbreviation of the name of my bank at the top, and the amount of my original mortgage loan below that. The text reads Your mortgage with [weird abbreviation of bank name] can be […]