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As of this writing, it's been 473 days since Jose Padilla was detained by the U.S. government. You may recall I complained about his detention in a prior quotes. It's been a while since then, and the only news that I've heard is that on March 25 the government said that they would appeal the [...]

So let me start by saying that I won't normally do this, but I had to, because I am so darn proud. I figured out how to hook my cell phone (a Motorola V.66) to my Powerbook G4 with a $20 USB cable. You can buy a $120 kit some places that includes the cable, but [...]

[Posted at 2:10 PM] I've recently finished reading a book entitled After the Clockwork Universe: The Emerging Science and Culture of Integral Society. While I won't go into a lengthy description of the book--it would inevitably be too glib--it has changed my thinking significantly, showing how the mechanistic worldview that has characterized the last four [...]

DUDE, WHERE'S MY DIGNITY? A stripper instructs the "Stifmeister" (Seann William Scott) on proper nasal hygiene. I have to eat my words; I thought American Wedding would be another Hollywood "cha-ching!" disaster. Following the dismal cataclysm that was American Pie 2, how could I not be pessimistic? This sudden finale to the "American Pie Trilogy" (snicker) [...]

[Posted at 11:06 PM] Once in a while, a critic decides to really lay into an author. In this day and age it's relatively rare - not even Anthony Lane has the balls to stick it to anything other than Star Trek: First Contact. But Laura Miller over at Salon lets Chuck Palahniuk, author of [...]