I hope this school will encourage the arts with classes like "Photography for Non-terrorists" and "Security Theater." Maybe Bruce Schneier can teach?

At the very least I want to see "TSA Calculus" so we can learn how to calculate the wait at airport security!

My girlfriend and I made these two weeks ago. Initially I was reticent to give up the requisite bottle of Guinness.

Eating the first cupcake calmed all my fears. Not just my fears about the Guinness. All my fears. EAT THESE CUPCAKES.

It's the original Guitar Hero!

I'm sending this to my friends with an adorable two-year-old moppet, so he can get in shape for his next birthday!

Love it! Can't help but see the influence of Alphonse Mucha, even though this is very different!

If only someone could render them as easy-to-understand subway maps!

Please note that the EFF also has a page with a sample letter to send to your US representative! There's a handy form to fill out to send an email or you can print it and send a dead tree.

A small action from you can make a big difference!

Link to EFF's action page!

I'm not sure why she lived this long, but my great-grandmother lived to be 106. Like the people in the photo project, she lived 1895-2001.

It's awe-inspiring to think of everything she saw in those years.

Our thoughts and prayers are with JWZ, who survives the loss.

First, the IBM 650 and now Netscape. These things happen in threes don't they? We're looking your way Internet Explorer... who will write your EULAgy?

In my work I did meet one woman who's life motto was, "Faith, trust and pixie dust!" For her the motto was something of a mantra, a place to turn in time of trouble.

While there may not be any systematic theology developed for Disneyism, there are also tons of religions that are similarly informal. A loose set of principles that create a larger meaning of life is about all that you need.

I'm not convinced that one would need to "pray to" Tinkerbell to make Disneyism a religion. Pinsky's book The Gospel according to Disney started treating this, it's interesting to see the conversation go on.

The IBM 650 is notable for two things: first, its unusual bi-quinary architecture. Not quite binary, not quite decimal, it worked like a digital abacus.

Better yet, the machine served as the platform that Donald Knuth cut his teeth on for programming! His Selected Papers on Computer Science has a chapter on his appreciation for this machine. I'm sure he's sad to see it go, too.

Amazing! Rapid technological change with just about no social change to speak of! Introducing new technologies and media should be changing and stretching that family rather than letting them be more the same than ever.

What's more, the technological changes only follow from a 1960s social vision: technology makes housework easier and relaxing after your day job easier. There seems to be no hope of having technologies that blur the line of work and home: computers, telecommuting.

Marshall McLuhan would have a fit!