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Saturday, July 31, 2004

An ode to editors

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In temples in Asia, a figure called Wisdom guards the entrance. She — this figure is invariably female, like most editors today — holds in o...
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Thursday, July 29, 2004

Monkeys! Monkeys everywhere!

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I really like this 12 Monkeys idea. But then, I love monkeys. July monkey : Describe your first impression of Montreal. Bridges. Lot...
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Live and breathe the poetry

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It's good for you, according to an article in the American Journal of Physiology — Heart and Circulatory Physiology . The study inv...
Wednesday, July 28, 2004

That's so sarcoplasmic, man

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Word of the day: sarcoplasm (sar·co·plasm) (sahr'ko-plaz"[schwa]m) [sarco- + -plasm] the interfibrillary matter of the striate...

Food! and it's magic!

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Salon presents an article adapted from Philip Pullman's introduction to a recent reissue of Norman Lindsay's The Magic Pudding . ...
Tuesday, July 27, 2004

Neuromarketing ethics

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John Shirley asks that all-important ethical question: "Why is it okay to rip off stupid people?" He also offers a very enterta...

Saramago's appreciation for kiddy lit

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It's OK if I read childrens' books. Maybe it even makes me a better person. José Saramago thinks it's a good idea: Portug...
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Monday, July 26, 2004

Antsy

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Tomorrow's the day my life will change. Tomorrow I re-enter the workforce, so to speak. I renew my effort to freelance full-time. ...

The baby instruction manual

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My baby did in fact come with a manual. From Tiny Tot to Toddler: A Practical Guide to Baby Care , published by the Institut national de san...

The confusion of tongues and the language of God

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An article in the current issue of Nature describes studies and experiments that yield conclusions with vast implications for our understa...
Sunday, July 25, 2004

Plea for a literati nation

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Michael Dirda in Sunday's Washington Post presents yet another take on the NEA survey of reading in America. The question, of cours...
Saturday, July 24, 2004

Make mine a double

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In Sunday's Guardian, Adam Mars-Jones reviews José Saramago's latest novel to be available in English translation. ( The Double is...
Friday, July 23, 2004

The depressing state of kids' books

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In a New York Times article last weekend (quick, let me talk about this a minute before the links are archived and inaccessible), Barbara F...
Thursday, July 22, 2004

More on Miéville

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It seems I'm not alone in thinking Adam Lipkin's review of Iron Council was unnecessarily negative. The Mumpsimus initiated a...

Turn me on

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While watching crap TV the other night, I saw a commercial for the Maytag Neptune Drying Center . And I can't get it out of my mind. It...
Wednesday, July 21, 2004

What I learned today

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The main active metabolite of oxcarbazepine is a 10-monohydroxy derivative, 10,11-dihydro-10-hydroxy-5H-dibenzo (b,f) azepine-5-carboxamide....

Hawking apologizes to SF fans

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From Space.com : How can black holes destroy all traces of consumed matter and energy, as Hawking long believed, when subatomic theory sa...

Sisyphean ducks

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Helena had egg the other day, and she didn't throw up. The girl certainly seems to know what she likes and to have a handle on what...
Monday, July 19, 2004

Cat heaven

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Margaret Atwood gets cats. I mean, really understands them. My cats anyway. Read her story in Brick . My cats like this story. They...

Picture his words

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Alberto Manguel explores the relationship between words and images in the current issue of Geist . Perhaps the strongest, clearest expos...