Karl Fogel's essay on "the transformative effect that good tools can have on a team's ability to collaborate" informs my hesitance to respond to this Ask Metafilter question. What is the point of thought experiments …

Rachel, Kevan, Holly, other Londoners - Canonical will pay you to come by and test a chat program this week or next.

"Is that your MetroCard?" "Yeah, it has 50 cents on it." [examining magstripe] "Oh, I didn't know you could put music on these now."

New season of Project Runway is happening. Last week's challenge (make a nice party look OUT OF BURLAP SACKS) provoked decent innovation, which pleases me. But I predict that no more than 20% of the …

I'm going to FOSDEM, the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting, the first weekend in February. (Something like twenty of my Collabora colleagues will be there, including some I've never met before.) I've …

I actually knocked off work at a reasonable hour today, after some useful conversations with colleagues. Then I cleaned up a bit and decided to tackle a few clothes that needed minor mending. Beth came …

Remember Thoughtcrime Experiments? A scifi/fantasy anthology that Leonard and I put together early last year and published in the spring of 2009? The TE email address just received two submissions. On the same day. About …

Some things that have made me happy recently: the BBC's Ask About Britain podcast (straightforward 6-minute explanations of Eton, bargaining, choosing a husband, &c.); "The Sake Period" from the You Look Nice Today podcast; and …

Keep those name misunderstanding stories coming! From the comments: I'm especially amazed that "Sarah" turns into "Sharon" and thoroughly enjoy "Mir. Like the space station." Together with your wife Kat, you're a meerkat! I seem …

As a Christmas gift, Leonard got us the DVDs of the first three seasons of Psych. We're in season three or so. Some observations: Wow the pilot feels way different from the rest of the …