Nandini's housemate Laura raves about Cook's Illustrated magazine, but only today did I learn of the magazine's affiliation with America's Test Kitchen, which is a cross between Underwriters Laboratories and PepsiCo R&D. I saw an …
David Talbot just asked me, "How's it going?"
Jayson Blair, for those of you who don't know, was a reporter for the New York Times. He lied, a lot. He plagiarized and made up stories. For months. And now he's been fired and …
Brunching Shuttlecocks is over. Waaah, but at least the archives are still up. Paul Ford is not immune to pirate jokes.
To quote Leonard from years ago: "My current task is reading O'Reilly's Java Servlet Programming. The guy who wrote the book is sitting at the desk across from mine. This is weird."
Seeing Scott Rosenberg for like the twentieth time and feeling the urge to tell him "Ohmigod I read your blog." Sitting in on an editorial meeting, and then, just now, looking at the front page …
The most overpowering feeling of the day came when I was reading a Salon article about Buffy As Anthem, and I thought, I can't believe I'm reading Salon at Salon. It feels like I'm violating …
IF this job lasts, as I believe it will, then sometime in the early fall I'll move to San Francisco. Leonard doesn't plan to move his homestead, so now I have solid criteria for my …
An analysis of the genius of the first *NSYNC album.... Fantasy #3: He'll be sorry he left you, girl. Probably the most shameless and impressive gambit this album plays is presenting a whopping THREE consecutive …
