Monthly Archive: July 2003

From the Things You Didn’t Need to Know But the Fox Network Will Show You Department comes this gem from Eric Schotz, producer of the upcoming special, “101 Things Removed from the Human Body”:...

Just got a note from my webhost, informing me I’m again nearing my 1GB storage limit (independent of my bandwidth use, which is always obnoxiously high). So, time for some spring cleaning. A painful...

My good friend Nate, now in Portland, follows the Tour de France more closely than anyone else I know. I look for the headlines when they’re posted, but admit to not really understanding the...

It was a nice place to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there. As feared when I left, there are plans afoot to relocate my old office to Singapore. And there’s no guarantee...

The lie. Older lies. A brand new lie to add to the collection. And of all people, he shouldn’t be complaining about revisionist history. Remember the good ol’ days, when “I did not have...

Japanese television. Ping pong. And low-budget bullet time. (Windows Media Player required, but for once, worth it.)

“I stopped this poor girl in an SUV and said, ‘You’re not going to believe this, but I’m a police officer and I need you to follow this cab.’” Now that’s a great story....

They call it “Microsimulation of road traffic with a time-continuous model.” I call it “Lunalilo Freeway.” If only there was a way to expand the applet to add something ridiculous, like, say, the Vineyard...

I wasn’t a big fan of Al Gore, to be sure. But I really don’t get it. Not a single journalist or talking head would let anyone forget the whole “I invented the internet...