The Center for Inquiry reprints a speech by science writer Natalie Angier, in which she discusses how to raise a child as an atheist.
Angier discusses, for lack of a better term, an atheist’s world view, and she raises a few points that I think are worth mentioning.
The first thing I want to mention is her […]
Funny. I noticed one of these just this morning, on a young woman in the Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall station, but I hate to disappoint you: I failed to notice whether it was bezeled in faux diamonds.
I saw a guy yesterday on the uptown 6 train, stretched out on a bench, passed out. In his mouth was the nozzle for an aerosol bottle of cleaning spray from Staples.
He slept on one half of a bench. A family came on and tried to occupy the other half. The kids sat at the […]
Dispatching Trains Manually, or Al Capone, Dispatcher.
Why did we go into Iraq again? The Bushies, of course, sold us the war on WMDs, which we now know didn’t exist. When that excuse began looking thin, they reminded us what a bad man Saddam was. Now, Human Rights Watch reports that the new Iraqi regime employs Saddam’s torture mavens to abuse prisoners.
Meet […]
Back in my day, happy slapping was something a boy did in the privacy of his bedroom.
I’ve blogged before about the war within Sony between its consumer-electronics division and its entertainment unit. In a nutshell, electronics wanted to bring an iPod-like media player to market; entertainment whined, “But people will steal our movies and muuuuuuuuuuusic.”
Boing Boing points to a piece from the AP, in which a ranking Sony exec admits his […]
In honor of the ShufflePlay Game, the next 15 shuffled songs on my iPod:
Lalaland, Sea Ray
Twist the Knife, Neko Case & Her Boyfriends
El Camino, Goh Nakamura
Let Me Get up on It, Tom Waits
Glow Girl, The Who
Teenage, Tribeca
Names, Cat Power
Like a Prayer, Junkie Brewster
Just So (Pepito Remix), Dealership
Havalina, Pixies
Dream, Douglas Heart
Allison, Pixies
Slow Rollin’ Low, Waylon Jennings
Interzone, […]
I missed this first time around, but the Times has a piece on the end of the 9 train. The 1 and 9 offer so-called skip-stop service, in which each train leap-frogs past alternating stations. As the Times describes, it’s common on 9-train stops to see three 1 trains in a row pass your station […]
Google results for “I am a stalker”: 4,060.
