Five years ago this morning, I had just voted (in the primary election for Mayor), and was walking to work, listening to Morning Edition on my earphones. At about 8:50, the broadcast was interrupted by a report that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. At that point, information was sketchy. It could have [...]
Five years ago, this site wasn’t a blog. It was an infrequently updated personal page that housed little more than my resume and an archive of some of my old dead-trees writing. But I did manage to update it shortly after 9/11. Here’s what I wrote:
I spent one night working near the top of the [...]
As “Star Trek” turns 40, the franchise seems to be suffering from something of a midlife crisis. And, like quadragenerians everywhere, Trek is reacting by trying to reclaim its lost youth. Not only is the next Trek film slated to be the upcoming “Star Fleet Academy” flick, featuring young Kirk and Spock, but Paramount now [...]
PC Magazine has a list out of the “Top 99 Undiscovered Web Sites.” I can only assume that the magazine is using the term “undiscovered” the same way your second grade teacher did; sure, Columbus “discovered” America, but that was hardly news to the thousands of Native Americans who were already there for thousands of [...]